What is Google Test?
It is a unit testing library for the C++ programming language, based on the xUnit architecture. The library is released under the BSD 3-clause license. It can be compiled for a variety of POSIX and Windows platforms, allowing unit-testing of C sources as well as C++ with minimal source modification.
Google Test is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Google Test is an open source tool with 28.9K GitHub stars and 9.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Google Test's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Google Test?
Companies
4 companies reportedly use Google Test in their tech stacks, including everything, Medicus AI, and stan.
Developers
12 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Google Test.
Google Test Integrations
C++, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and PlatformIO are some of the popular tools that integrate with Google Test. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Google Test.
Google Test's Features
- An xUnit test framework
- Test discovery
- A rich set of assertions
- User-defined assertions
- Death tests
- Fatal and non-fatal failures
- Value-parameterized tests
- Type-parameterized tests
- Various options for running the tests
- XML test report generation
Google Test Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Google Test?
JUnit
JUnit is a simple framework to write repeatable tests. It is an instance of the xUnit architecture for unit testing frameworks.
xUnit
It is a free, open source, community-focused unit testing tool for the .NET Framework. It is the latest technology for unit testing C#, F#, VB.NET and other .NET languages. It works with ReSharper, CodeRush, TestDriven.NET and Xamarin.
Moq
It is a mocking library for .NET developed from scratch to take full advantage of .NET Linq expression trees and lambda expressions, which makes it the most productive, type-safe and refactoring-friendly mocking library available. And it supports mocking interfaces as well as classes.
Mockito
It is a mocking framework that tastes really good. It lets you write beautiful tests with a clean & simple API. It doesn’t give you hangover because the tests are very readable and they produce clean verification errors.
pytest
A framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing for applications and libraries. It is a mature full-featured Python testing tool.
