Hudson, C++ and UnitTest++

Question

Has anyone used Hudson as a Continuous-Integration server for a C++ project using UnitTest++ as a testing library?

How exactly did you set it up?

I know there have been several questions on Continuous Integration before, but I hope this one has a narrower scope.

EDIT: I'll clarify a bit on what I'm looking for. I already have the build set to fail when the Unit-Tests fail. I'm looking for something like Hudson's JUnit support. UnitTest++ can create XML reports (See here). So, perhaps if someone knows how to translate these reports to be JUnit compatible, Hudson will know how to eat it up?

Answer 1

We are actively doing this at my workplace.

Currently, we use a free-style software project to:

• Check our Subversion repository for updates every 15 minutes
• Call a windows batch file to clean and build a solution file
  • Project files build and run unit tests as a post-build event
  • Unit test failures are returned by the test main(), thus treated as build errors

I have also tested a configuration that uses the XmlTestReporter included with UnitTest++ to generate output files. The xUnit plugin natively supports this output, along with any other output you can convert, although I had to change the XSL file that came with it in version 0.1.3 to get durations recorded in the test history.

There are a lot of things we would like to improve about our integration; the build logs are long and hard to parse with no coloring or highlighting, etc., but so far it has still been beneficial to us.

Answer 2

I checked the xUnit plugin, as Patrick Johnmeyer suggested in the accepted answer. For completeness sakes, here is the driver code:

#include <fstream>
#include "UnitTest++.h"
#include "XmlTestReporter.h"

int main( int argc, char *argc[] ) {
    std::ofstream f("file.xml");
    UnitTest::XmlTestReporter reporter(f);
    return UnitTest::RunAllTests(reporter, UnitTest::Test::GetTestList(), NULL, 0);
}

In Hudson configuration, check "Publish testing tools result report" and point it to "file.xml"

Answer 3

Hudson now has a CppUnit plugin that may do the trick.