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[Johan]

Hi,

Can somebody explain to me what are the benefits of using unit test for c++
( cppunit ). If I have a test program why do I have to write unit test
cases. The test program can have it's input from an input file, you can
specify more test data in the input file without recompiling the
testprogram. In case of a unit test you have to recompile the unit test. The
test program can be automated en have log facilities. So why do people use
unit tests ?

John

[Victor Bazarov]

Johan wrote:

Can somebody explain to me what are the benefits of using unit test for c++
( cppunit ). If I have a test program why do I have to write unit test
cases. The test program can have it's input from an input file, you can
specify more test data in the input file without recompiling the
testprogram. In case of a unit test you have to recompile the unit test. The
test program can be automated en have log facilities. So why do people use
unit tests ?

Is there a C++ _language_ question I am not seeing? The benefits of using
unit tests are not language-specific. You might find better luck talking
about unit tests in comp.software-eng or comp.software.extreme-programming
(although they have changed/extended the term to "Programmer Test" IIUIC).

V