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Test Driven Development for Embedded C
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Test Driven Development for Embedded C

by James W. Grenning
April 2011
Intermediate to advanced
356 pages
8h 55m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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CppUTest: A C++ Unit Test Harness

Now that you’ve seen Unity, I’ll quickly describe CppUTest, my preferred unit test harness for C and C++. In full disclosure, I’m partial to CppUTest, not only because it is a capable test harness but also because I’m one of its authors. The first examples in this book use Unity. Later examples, starting in Chapter 8, Spying on the Production Code , use CppUTest.

CppUTest was developed to support multiple OS platforms with a specific goal of being usable for embedded development. The CppUTest macros make it so that test cases can be written without knowledge of C++. This makes it easy for C programmers to use the test harness.

CppUTest uses a primitive subset of C++; it’s a good choice for embedded ...

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