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Google Test

Developer(s)	Google
Stable release	1.12.1 / June 30, 2022; 2 months ago (2022-06-30)
Repository	github.com/google/googletest/
Written in	C++
Operating system	Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS
Type	Unit testing tool
License	BSD 3-clauses
Website	google.github.io/googletest/

Google Test (also known as gtest) is a unit testing library for the C++ programming language, based on the xUnit architecture.^[1] The library is released under the BSD 3-clause license.^[2] 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.^[vague]

Projects using Google Test

Besides being developed and used at Google, many other projects implement Google Test as well:

• Android Open Source Project operating system^[3]
• Chromium projects (behind the Chrome browser and Chrome OS)
• LLVM compiler
• Protocol Buffers (Google's data interchange format)
• OpenCV computer vision library
• Robot Operating System ^[4]
• Gromacs molecular dynamics simulation package^[5]

Related tools

Google Test UI is a test runner that runs test binary, allows to track progress via a progress bar, and displays a list of test failures. Google Test UI is written in C#.^[6] Additionally, a feature-complete Visual Studio extension exists with Google Test Adapter.^[7]

See also

• List of unit testing frameworks
• CppUnit

References

Further reading

• Whittaker, James (2012). How Google Tests Software. Boston, Massachusetts: Pearson Education. ISBN 978-0-321-80302-3.

External links

• Google Test
• Google Test Primer documentation
• Gtest C/C++ Conan package
• A quick introduction to the Google C++ Testing Framework, Arpan Sen, IBM DeveloperWorks, 2010-05-11
• The Google Test and Development Environment, Anthony Vallone, 2014-01-21