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Update contributing.md to reflect current test setup
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@ -42,36 +42,37 @@ functionality, you should add tests covering and showcasing it. Even if you have
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only made changes to Catch internals (i.e. you implemented some performance
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improvements), you should still test your changes.
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This means 3 things
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This means 2 things
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* Compiling Catch's SelfTest project:
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```
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$ cd Catch2
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$ cmake -Bcmake-build-debug -H. -DCATCH_BUILD_TESTING=ON
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$ cd cmake-build-debug/
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$ make
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$ cmake -Bdebug-build -H. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug
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$ cmake --build debug-build
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```
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-- code that does not compile is evidently incorrect. Obviously, you are not
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expected to have access to all compilers and platforms Catch supports, Catch's
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CI pipeline will compile your code using supported compilers once you open a PR.
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because code that does not compile is evidently incorrect. Obviously,
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you are not expected to have access to all the compilers and platforms
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supported by Catch2, but you should at least smoke test your changes
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on your platform. Our CI pipeline will check your PR against most of
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the supported platforms, but it takes an hour to finish -- compiling
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locally takes just a few minutes.
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* Running the SelfTest binary:
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```
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$ ./cmake-build-debug/projects/SelfTest
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```
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There should be no unexpected failures on simple run.
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*Note: on Windows, the binary is located at `cmake-build-debug\projects\Debug\SelfTest`*
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* Running Catch's approval tests:
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* Running the tests via CTest:
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```
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$ ./scripts/approvalTests.py
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$ cd debug-build
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$ ctest -j 2 --output-on-failure
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```
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Approval tests compare current output of the SelfTest binary in various
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configurations against known good output. If you've configured the SelfTest
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binary with your changes to be located in any other directory than
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`/cmake-build-debug/projects/SelfTest`, its path needs to be passed to the
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script, like so: `$ ./scripts/approvalTests.py clang-build/SelfTest`.
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The output should be fairly self-explanatory.
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If you added new tests, approval tests are very likely to fail. If they
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do not, it means that your changes weren't run as part of them. This
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_might_ be intentional, but usually is not.
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The approval tests compare current output of the SelfTest binary in various
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configurations against known good outputs. The reason it fails is,
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_usually_, that you've added new tests but have not yet approved the changes
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they introduce. This is done with the `scripts/approve.py` script, but
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before you do so, you need to check that the introduced changes are indeed
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intentional.
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