PR FREEZE COMING SOON
We are working on a large refactoring that would make it hard to accept external PRs. Really Soon Now we will not be accepting new PRs until the refactoring has been completed.
Future Plans:
* 1.8.x Release - the 1.8.x is the last release that works with pre-C++11 compilers. The 1.8.x will not accept any requests for any new features and any bugfix requests will only be accepted if proven "critical"
* Post 1.8.x - work to improve/cleanup/pay technical debt. When this work is completed there will be a 1.9.x tagged release
* Post 1.9.x googletest will follow Abseil Live at Head philosophy
Welcome to Google Test, Google's C++ test framework!
This repository is a merger of the formerly separate GoogleTest and
GoogleMock projects. These were so closely related that it makes sense to
maintain and release them together.
Please subscribe to the mailing list at googletestframework@googlegroups.com for questions, discussions, and development.
There is also an IRC channel on OFTC (irc.oftc.net) #gtest available.
Getting started information for Google Test is available in the
Google Test Primer documentation.
Google Mock is an extension to Google Test for writing and using C++ mock
classes. See the separate Google Mock documentation.
More detailed documentation for googletest (including build instructions) are
in its interior googletest/README.md file.
Google test has been used on a variety of platforms:
In addition to many internal projects at Google, Google Test is also used by
the following notable projects:
GTest Runner is a Qt5 based automated test-runner and Graphical User Interface with powerful features for Windows and Linux platforms.
Google Test UI is test runner that runs
your test binary, allows you to track its progress via a progress bar, and
displays a list of test failures. Clicking on one shows failure text. Google
Test UI is written in C#.
GTest TAP Listener is an event
listener for Google Test that implements the
TAP protocol for test
result output. If your test runner understands TAP, you may find it useful.
gtest-parallel is a test runner that
runs tests from your binary in parallel to provide significant speed-up.
GoogleTest Adapter is a VS Code extension allowing to view Google Tests in a tree view, and run/debug your tests.
Google Test is designed to have fairly minimal requirements to build
and use with your projects, but there are some. Currently, we support
Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and Cygwin. We will also make our best
effort to support other platforms (e.g. Solaris, AIX, and z/OS).
However, since core members of the Google Test project have no access
to these platforms, Google Test may have outstanding issues there. If
you notice any problems on your platform, please notify
googletestframework@googlegroups.com. Patches for fixing them are
even more welcome!
These are the base requirements to build and use Google Test from a source
package (as described below):
Please read the CONTRIBUTING.md for details on
how to contribute to this project.
Happy testing!
