On: Catch: A modern, C++-native, header-only, framework for unit tests

[Svenstaro]

To be honest, I prefer bandit[1], it uses lambdas instead of macros which I consider more modern and it has a nice syntax to it. Anyone interested in catch should also check out bandit.

[1] http://banditcpp.org/index.html

[tveita → Svenstaro]

One advantage of Catch is that you can use native C++ expressions in your assertions, so instead of

  AssertThat(guitar->sound(), Equals(sounds::clean));

you can write

  CHECK(guitar->sound() == sounds::clean);

And you'll still get sensible output when it fails, showing the expression and the result of guitar->sound().

[banachtarski → tveita]

This isn't so much an advantage as a preference.

See https://github.com/joakimkarlsson/snowhouse#assertions

[wtracy → Svenstaro]

I found the Bandit examples rather disorienting. Can anyone explain what the "[&](){" business means?

[vowelless → wtracy]

That's the syntax for describing a lambda function.

CPP reference has a nice overview of it: http://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/lambda