Testing Private methods

[Lloyd]

Hi,

What is the right way to test private member functions of a class? 

I read about private member testing and the solutions I got are, making the test class a friend or move the private members of the class to another class with public interface. 

In my case, I prefer the friend approach. Is it possible with Catch? How can I do this? Or is there some better approach using Catch?

Thanks,

  Lloyd

[Jens Alfke]

On Oct 31, 2016, at 10:51 PM, Lloyd <lloydk...@gmail.com> wrote:

In my case, I prefer the friend approach. Is it possible with Catch? How can I do this? Or is there some better approach using Catch?

I’ve done this by making the test fixture class a friend of the class to be tested, then overriding the method in the fixture as protected (and just calling the superclass method.) The latter step is necessary because TEST_CASE_METHOD creates an invisible subclass of the fixture class, and that subclass is not a friend of your class so it doesn’t get access to private methods.

—Jens

[Ryan Gonzalez]

If you're extremely desperate and insane:

#define private public

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[ERROR]: Your autotools build scripts are 200 lines longer than your program. Something’s wrong.
http://kirbyfan64.github.io/

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[Lloyd]

Thank you Jens