Month: March 2018

Writing C++ unit tests with Catch2

Posted on by Marius Bancila

In my book, Modern C++ Programming Cookbook, I discussed several testing frameworks for C++, more precisely, Boost.Test, Google Test, and Catch (which stands for C++ Automated Test Cases in a Header). Since the publishing of the book, a new version of Catch, called Catch2 has been released. This provides new functionalities, but also a series of breaking changes with Catch, including the drop of support for pre-C++11 compilers. For a list of changes, you can see the Catch2 release notes. Catch2 is available as a single-header library, is open-sources and cross-platform, and written for C++11/14/17/latest. In this article, I want to give a brief example of how you can write tests for C++ using Catch2.

C++20 calendars and time zones

Posted on by Marius Bancila

A couple years ago I wrote a post called A better date and time C++ library about Howard Hinnant’s date library (I actually planned for several posts, but only the first was materialized). A slightly modified version of the library has been voted in for C++ 20 at the ISO committee meeting in Jacksonville this month. You can find the actual proposal here D0355R7: Extending <chrono> to Calendars and Time Zones.

Update a TFS team project manually to support code reviews

Posted on by Marius Bancila

If you are working with TFS and have projects created in older versions you might want to use features available in newer versions of TFS (given that you have updated to such a newer version). These features could be code reviews, feedback, my work, storyboarding, and others. In this post, I will explain how to manually modify the team project settings to enable code review. You can only do this is you have proper access rights.

Using the curl library from C++ on Windows

Posted on by Marius Bancila

curl is a project containing a command line tool and a library that can be used to transfer data using a variety of protocols, including, of course, HTTP and HTTPS. The library API is written in C, but there are various C++ wrappers on top of it. One of those is curlcpp. In this article, I will show how to build these libraries for Windows with Visual Studio.