DbUnit vs Google Test

Google Test vs DbUnit: What are the differences?

What is Google Test? Google Testing and Mocking Framework (By Google). 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.

What is DbUnit? A JUnit extension targeted at database-driven projects. It is a JUnit extension (also usable with Ant) targeted at database-driven projects that, among other things, puts your database into a known state between test runs. This is an excellent way to avoid the myriad of problems that can occur when one test case corrupts the database and causes subsequent tests to fail or exacerbate the damage.

Google Test and DbUnit can be categorized as "Testing Frameworks" tools.

Some of the features offered by Google Test are:

• An xUnit test framework
• Test discovery
• A rich set of assertions

On the other hand, DbUnit provides the following key features:

• Ability to export and import your database data to and from XML datasets
• Works with very large datasets when used in streaming mode
• Helps you to verify that your database data match an expected set of values

Google Test is an open source tool with 15.9K GitHub stars and 6.26K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Google Test's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, DbUnit has a broader approval, being mentioned in 3 company stacks & 7 developers stacks; compared to Google Test, which is listed in 4 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.