catch2/docs/whats-changed.md

What's new in Catch for 1.0

After a long "developer preview" state Catch turned 1.0 in mid-2013. Just prior to this a large number of changes, some of them breaking, where merged from the integration branch and now form part of the 1.0 code-base. If this might affect you please read this summary through so you know what to expect.

• Calling Catch from your own main() has changed - please review the updated docs
• The command line has changed. The biggest change is that test case names and tags should now only be supplied as primary arguments - in fact the -t option has been repurposed to mean "list tags". There are updated docs for this too
• There is a new reporter interface. If you have written a custom reporter you can use the LegacyReporterAdapter to minimise any differences. Ideally you should update to the new interface - especially as it has been designed to be more robust in the face of future changes (which should be minimal).
• The docs have moved from the wiki to the repository itself. They consist of a set of markdown files in the docs folder and are referenced directly from the README in the root. You can still read them online from GitHub.
• Lots of new goodness - more documentation for which is coming. The existing docs have been updated to account for some of the changes already (e.g. variadic macros). A quick rundown:
  • Variadic macros are used, where possible, so that, e.g. you can write a TEST_CASE with just a name - or even no name at all (making it an anonymous test case).
  • The hierarchical naming convention is deprecated in favour of using tags (see next)
  • TEST_CASEs (but not SECTIONs) can now be tagged by placing keywords in square brackets in the second argument - e.g.: TEST_CASE( "A nice name", "[tag1][tag2]"). The old style is still supported but please consider using this new style.
  • Tests can still be "hidden" using the ./ prefix as before, but the preferred way now is to give it the [hide] tag (hidden tests are skipped if you run the test process without specifying any test specs).
  • As well as TEST_CASEs and SECTIONs you can now also use BDD-style SCENARIO (in place of TEST_CASE) and GIVEN, WHEN and THEN macros (in place of SECTIONs).
  • New command line parser. Under the hood it is a complete rewrite - now powered by a command line library that will soon be spun out as a separate project: Clara. The options themselves are largely the same but there are some notable differences (as already discussed).
  • Completely overhauled output from the textual reporter (now the Console reporter). This now features a much clearer, cleaner format, including good use of indentation.

More information can be found in this blog post.

If you find any issues please raise issue tickets on the issue tracker on GitHub as before. For general questions, comments and suggestions, though, please use the new forums on Google Groups.

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