Install CUnit test framework on ubuntu

     CUnit is a lightweight system for writing, administering, and running unit tests in C.  It provides C programmers a basic testing functionality with a flexible variety of user interfaces.
     CUnit is built as a static library which is linked with the user's testing code.  It uses a simple framework for building test structures, and provides a rich set of assertions for testing common data types.   In addition, several different interfaces are provided for running tests and reporting results. 

its official webset is:CUnit Home

now we start to install CUnit environment on Ubuntu18.04

1.download the CUint source code

download CUnit from below website:

C Unit Testing Framework - Browse /CUnit at SourceForge.net

now we use the latest version 2.1-3.

2: extract

3.configuration & compile & install

the CUint test environment use jam compile default, you can install jame use command:

sudo apt install jam

then execute the configuration with bootstrap in top dir.

$ ./bootstrap
$ ./configure --prefix=/home/czl/Workspace/CUint/prefix

then execute make to compile and install

make && make install

install dir:

Test

download the default test case from below website:

CUnit Example

/*
 *  Simple example of a CUnit unit test.
 *
 *  This program (crudely) demonstrates a very simple "black box"
 *  test of the standard library functions fprintf() and fread().
 *  It uses suite initialization and cleanup functions to open
 *  and close a common temporary file used by the test functions.
 *  The test functions then write to and read from the temporary
 *  file in the course of testing the library functions.
 *
 *  The 2 test functions are added to a single CUnit suite, and
 *  then run using the CUnit Basic interface.  The output of the
 *  program (on CUnit version 2.0-2) is:
 *
 *           CUnit : A Unit testing framework for C.
 *           http://cunit.sourceforge.net/
 *
 *       Suite: Suite_1
 *         Test: test of fprintf() ... passed
 *         Test: test of fread() ... passed
 *
 *       --Run Summary: Type      Total     Ran  Passed  Failed
 *                      suites        1       1     n/a       0
 *                      tests         2       2       2       0
 *                      asserts       5       5       5       0
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include "CUnit/Basic.h"

/* Pointer to the file used by the tests. */
static FILE* temp_file = NULL;

/* The suite initialization function.
 * Opens the temporary file used by the tests.
 * Returns zero on success, non-zero otherwise.
 */
int init_suite1(void)
{
   if (NULL == (temp_file = fopen("temp.txt", "w+"))) {
      return -1;
   }
   else {
      return 0;
   }
}

/* The suite cleanup function.
 * Closes the temporary file used by the tests.
 * Returns zero on success, non-zero otherwise.
 */
int clean_suite1(void)
{
   if (0 != fclose(temp_file)) {
      return -1;
   }
   else {
      temp_file = NULL;
      return 0;
   }
}

/* Simple test of fprintf().
 * Writes test data to the temporary file and checks
 * whether the expected number of bytes were written.
 */
void testFPRINTF(void)
{
   int i1 = 10;

   if (NULL != temp_file) {
      CU_ASSERT(0 == fprintf(temp_file, ""));
      CU_ASSERT(2 == fprintf(temp_file, "Q\n"));
      CU_ASSERT(7 == fprintf(temp_file, "i1 = %d", i1));
   }
}

/* Simple test of fread().
 * Reads the data previously written by testFPRINTF()
 * and checks whether the expected characters are present.
 * Must be run after testFPRINTF().
 */
void testFREAD(void)
{
   unsigned char buffer[20];

   if (NULL != temp_file) {
      rewind(temp_file);
      CU_ASSERT(9 == fread(buffer, sizeof(unsigned char), 20, temp_file));
      CU_ASSERT(0 == strncmp(buffer, "Q\ni1 = 10", 9));
   }
}

/* The main() function for setting up and running the tests.
 * Returns a CUE_SUCCESS on successful running, another
 * CUnit error code on failure.
 */
int main()
{
   CU_pSuite pSuite = NULL;

   /* initialize the CUnit test registry */
   if (CUE_SUCCESS != CU_initialize_registry())
      return CU_get_error();

   /* add a suite to the registry */
   pSuite = CU_add_suite("Suite_1", init_suite1, clean_suite1);
   if (NULL == pSuite) {
      CU_cleanup_registry();
      return CU_get_error();
   }

   /* add the tests to the suite */
   /* NOTE - ORDER IS IMPORTANT - MUST TEST fread() AFTER fprintf() */
   if ((NULL == CU_add_test(pSuite, "test of fprintf()", testFPRINTF)) ||
       (NULL == CU_add_test(pSuite, "test of fread()", testFREAD)))
   {
      CU_cleanup_registry();
      return CU_get_error();
   }

   /* Run all tests using the CUnit Basic interface */
   CU_basic_set_mode(CU_BRM_VERBOSE);
   CU_basic_run_tests();
   CU_cleanup_registry();
   return CU_get_error();
}

compile&test

gcc -o cunit test.c -I/home/czl/Workspace/CUint/prefix/include -L/home/czl/Workspace/CUint/prefix/lib -lcunit -static

 if you need not install CUnit from source code, you can use the apt install manner to install CUnit packet directly.

sudo apt install libcunit1-dev

another CPP Unit test framwork are called gtest, you can refer this artical:

CSDNhttps://mp.csdn.net/mp_blog/creation/editor/127637639

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