This page lists the assertion macros provided by GoogleTest for verifying code
behavior. To use them, include the header gtest/gtest.h
.
The majority of the macros listed below come as a pair with an EXPECT_
variant
and an ASSERT_
variant. Upon failure, EXPECT_
macros generate nonfatal
failures and allow the current function to continue running, while ASSERT_
macros generate fatal failures and abort the current function.
All assertion macros support streaming a custom failure message into them with
the <<
operator, for example:
EXPECT_TRUE(my_condition) << "My condition is not true";
Anything that can be streamed to an ostream
can be streamed to an assertion
macro—in particular, C strings and string objects. If a wide string (wchar_t*
,
TCHAR*
in UNICODE
mode on Windows, or std::wstring
) is streamed to an
assertion, it will be translated to UTF-8 when printed.
The assertions in this section generate a success or failure directly instead of testing a value or expression. These are useful when control flow, rather than a Boolean expression, determines the test's success or failure, as shown by the following example:
switch(expression) {
case 1:
... some checks ...
case 2:
... some other checks ...
default:
FAIL() << "We shouldn't get here.";
}
SUCCEED()
Generates a success. This does not make the overall test succeed. A test is considered successful only if none of its assertions fail during its execution.
The SUCCEED
assertion is purely documentary and currently doesn't generate any
user-visible output. However, we may add SUCCEED
messages to GoogleTest output
in the future.
FAIL()
Generates a fatal failure, which returns from the current function.
Can only be used in functions that return void
. See
Assertion Placement for more information.
ADD_FAILURE()
Generates a nonfatal failure, which allows the current function to continue running.
ADD_FAILURE_AT(
file_path
,
line_number
)
Generates a nonfatal failure at the file and line number specified.
The following assertion allows matchers to be used to verify values.
EXPECT_THAT(
value
,
matcher
)
\
ASSERT_THAT(
value
,
matcher
)
Verifies that value
matches the matcher matcher
.
For example, the following code verifies that the string value1
starts with
"Hello"
, value2
matches a regular expression, and value3
is between 5 and
10:
#include "gmock/gmock.h"
using ::testing::AllOf;
using ::testing::Gt;
using ::testing::Lt;
using ::testing::MatchesRegex;
using ::testing::StartsWith;
...
EXPECT_THAT(value1, StartsWith("Hello"));
EXPECT_THAT(value2, MatchesRegex("Line \\d+"));
ASSERT_THAT(value3, AllOf(Gt(5), Lt(10)));
Matchers enable assertions of this form to read like English and generate
informative failure messages. For example, if the above assertion on value1
fails, the resulting message will be similar to the following:
Value of: value1
Actual: "Hi, world!"
Expected: starts with "Hello"
GoogleTest provides a built-in library of matchers—see the
Matchers Reference. It is also possible to write your own
matchers—see Writing New Matchers Quickly.
The use of matchers makes EXPECT_THAT
a powerful, extensible assertion.
The idea for this assertion was borrowed from Joe Walnes' Hamcrest project,
which adds assertThat()
to JUnit.
The following assertions test Boolean conditions.
EXPECT_TRUE(
condition
)
\
ASSERT_TRUE(
condition
)
Verifies that condition
is true.
EXPECT_FALSE(
condition
)
\
ASSERT_FALSE(
condition
)
Verifies that condition
is false.
The following assertions compare two values. The value arguments must be comparable by the assertion's comparison operator, otherwise a compiler error will result.
If an argument supports the <<
operator, it will be called to print the
argument when the assertion fails. Otherwise, GoogleTest will attempt to print
them in the best way it can—see
Teaching GoogleTest How to Print Your Values.
Arguments are always evaluated exactly once, so it's OK for the arguments to have side effects. However, the argument evaluation order is undefined and programs should not depend on any particular argument evaluation order.
These assertions work with both narrow and wide string objects (string
and
wstring
).
See also the Floating-Point Comparison assertions to compare floating-point numbers and avoid problems caused by rounding.
EXPECT_EQ(
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_EQ(
val1
,
val2
)
Verifies that val1
==
val2
.
Does pointer equality on pointers. If used on two C strings, it tests if they
are in the same memory location, not if they have the same value. Use
EXPECT_STREQ
to compare C strings (e.g. const char*
) by
value.
When comparing a pointer to NULL
, use EXPECT_EQ(
ptr
, nullptr)
instead
of EXPECT_EQ(
ptr
, NULL)
.
EXPECT_NE(
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_NE(
val1
,
val2
)
Verifies that val1
!=
val2
.
Does pointer equality on pointers. If used on two C strings, it tests if they
are in different memory locations, not if they have different values. Use
EXPECT_STRNE
to compare C strings (e.g. const char*
) by
value.
When comparing a pointer to NULL
, use EXPECT_NE(
ptr
, nullptr)
instead
of EXPECT_NE(
ptr
, NULL)
.
EXPECT_LT(
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_LT(
val1
,
val2
)
Verifies that val1
<
val2
.
EXPECT_LE(
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_LE(
val1
,
val2
)
Verifies that val1
<=
val2
.
EXPECT_GT(
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_GT(
val1
,
val2
)
Verifies that val1
>
val2
.
EXPECT_GE(
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_GE(
val1
,
val2
)
Verifies that val1
>=
val2
.
The following assertions compare two C strings. To compare two string
objects, use EXPECT_EQ
or EXPECT_NE
instead.
These assertions also accept wide C strings (wchar_t*
). If a comparison of two
wide strings fails, their values will be printed as UTF-8 narrow strings.
To compare a C string with NULL
, use EXPECT_EQ(
c_string
, nullptr)
or
EXPECT_NE(
c_string
, nullptr)
.
EXPECT_STREQ(
str1
,
str2
)
\
ASSERT_STREQ(
str1
,
str2
)
Verifies that the two C strings str1
and str2
have the same contents.
EXPECT_STRNE(
str1
,
str2
)
\
ASSERT_STRNE(
str1
,
str2
)
Verifies that the two C strings str1
and str2
have different contents.
EXPECT_STRCASEEQ(
str1
,
str2
)
\
ASSERT_STRCASEEQ(
str1
,
str2
)
Verifies that the two C strings str1
and str2
have the same contents,
ignoring case.
EXPECT_STRCASENE(
str1
,
str2
)
\
ASSERT_STRCASENE(
str1
,
str2
)
Verifies that the two C strings str1
and str2
have different contents,
ignoring case.
The following assertions compare two floating-point values.
Due to rounding errors, it is very unlikely that two floating-point values will
match exactly, so EXPECT_EQ
is not suitable. In general, for floating-point
comparison to make sense, the user needs to carefully choose the error bound.
GoogleTest also provides assertions that use a default error bound based on Units in the Last Place (ULPs). To learn more about ULPs, see the article Comparing Floating Point Numbers.
EXPECT_FLOAT_EQ(
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_FLOAT_EQ(
val1
,
val2
)
Verifies that the two float
values val1
and val2
are approximately
equal, to within 4 ULPs from each other.
EXPECT_DOUBLE_EQ(
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_DOUBLE_EQ(
val1
,
val2
)
Verifies that the two double
values val1
and val2
are approximately
equal, to within 4 ULPs from each other.
EXPECT_NEAR(
val1
,
val2
,
abs_error
)
\
ASSERT_NEAR(
val1
,
val2
,
abs_error
)
Verifies that the difference between val1
and val2
does not exceed the
absolute error bound abs_error
.
The following assertions verify that a piece of code throws, or does not throw, an exception. Usage requires exceptions to be enabled in the build environment.
Note that the piece of code under test can be a compound statement, for example:
EXPECT_NO_THROW({
int n = 5;
DoSomething(&n);
});
EXPECT_THROW(
statement
,
exception_type
)
\
ASSERT_THROW(
statement
,
exception_type
)
Verifies that statement
throws an exception of type exception_type
.
EXPECT_ANY_THROW(
statement
)
\
ASSERT_ANY_THROW(
statement
)
Verifies that statement
throws an exception of any type.
EXPECT_NO_THROW(
statement
)
\
ASSERT_NO_THROW(
statement
)
Verifies that statement
does not throw any exception.
The following assertions enable more complex predicates to be verified while
printing a more clear failure message than if EXPECT_TRUE
were used alone.
EXPECT_PRED1(
pred
,
val1
)
\
EXPECT_PRED2(
pred
,
val1
,
val2
)
\
EXPECT_PRED3(
pred
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
)
\
EXPECT_PRED4(
pred
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
,
val4
)
\
EXPECT_PRED5(
pred
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
,
val4
,
val5
)
ASSERT_PRED1(
pred
,
val1
)
\
ASSERT_PRED2(
pred
,
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_PRED3(
pred
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
)
\
ASSERT_PRED4(
pred
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
,
val4
)
\
ASSERT_PRED5(
pred
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
,
val4
,
val5
)
Verifies that the predicate pred
returns true
when passed the given values
as arguments.
The parameter pred
is a function or functor that accepts as many arguments
as the corresponding macro accepts values. If pred
returns true
for the
given arguments, the assertion succeeds, otherwise the assertion fails.
When the assertion fails, it prints the value of each argument. Arguments are always evaluated exactly once.
As an example, see the following code:
// Returns true if m and n have no common divisors except 1.
bool MutuallyPrime(int m, int n) { ... }
...
const int a = 3;
const int b = 4;
const int c = 10;
...
EXPECT_PRED2(MutuallyPrime, a, b); // Succeeds
EXPECT_PRED2(MutuallyPrime, b, c); // Fails
In the above example, the first assertion succeeds, and the second fails with the following message:
MutuallyPrime(b, c) is false, where
b is 4
c is 10
Note that if the given predicate is an overloaded function or a function
template, the assertion macro might not be able to determine which version to
use, and it might be necessary to explicitly specify the type of the function.
For example, for a Boolean function IsPositive()
overloaded to take either a
single int
or double
argument, it would be necessary to write one of the
following:
EXPECT_PRED1(static_cast<bool (*)(int)>(IsPositive), 5);
EXPECT_PRED1(static_cast<bool (*)(double)>(IsPositive), 3.14);
Writing simply EXPECT_PRED1(IsPositive, 5);
would result in a compiler error.
Similarly, to use a template function, specify the template arguments:
template <typename T>
bool IsNegative(T x) {
return x < 0;
}
...
EXPECT_PRED1(IsNegative<int>, -5); // Must specify type for IsNegative
If a template has multiple parameters, wrap the predicate in parentheses so the macro arguments are parsed correctly:
ASSERT_PRED2((MyPredicate<int, int>), 5, 0);
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT1(
pred_formatter
,
val1
)
\
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(
pred_formatter
,
val1
,
val2
)
\
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT3(
pred_formatter
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
)
\
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT4(
pred_formatter
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
,
val4
)
\
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT5(
pred_formatter
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
,
val4
,
val5
)
ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT1(
pred_formatter
,
val1
)
\
ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT2(
pred_formatter
,
val1
,
val2
)
\
ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT3(
pred_formatter
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
)
\
ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT4(
pred_formatter
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
,
val4
)
\
ASSERT_PRED_FORMAT5(
pred_formatter
,
val1
,
val2
,
val3
,
val4
,
val5
)
Verifies that the predicate pred_formatter
succeeds when passed the given
values as arguments.
The parameter pred_formatter
is a predicate-formatter, which is a function
or functor with the signature:
testing::AssertionResult PredicateFormatter(const char* expr1,
const char* expr2,
...
const char* exprn,
T1 val1,
T2 val2,
...
Tn valn);
where val1
, val2
, ..., valn
are the values of the predicate
arguments, and expr1
, expr2
, ..., exprn
are the corresponding
expressions as they appear in the source code. The types T1
, T2
, ..., Tn
can be either value types or reference types; if an argument has type T
, it
can be declared as either T
or const T&
, whichever is appropriate. For more
about the return type testing::AssertionResult
, see
Using a Function That Returns an AssertionResult.
As an example, see the following code:
// Returns the smallest prime common divisor of m and n,
// or 1 when m and n are mutually prime.
int SmallestPrimeCommonDivisor(int m, int n) { ... }
// Returns true if m and n have no common divisors except 1.
bool MutuallyPrime(int m, int n) { ... }
// A predicate-formatter for asserting that two integers are mutually prime.
testing::AssertionResult AssertMutuallyPrime(const char* m_expr,
const char* n_expr,
int m,
int n) {
if (MutuallyPrime(m, n)) return testing::AssertionSuccess();
return testing::AssertionFailure() << m_expr << " and " << n_expr
<< " (" << m << " and " << n << ") are not mutually prime, "
<< "as they have a common divisor " << SmallestPrimeCommonDivisor(m, n);
}
...
const int a = 3;
const int b = 4;
const int c = 10;
...
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(AssertMutuallyPrime, a, b); // Succeeds
EXPECT_PRED_FORMAT2(AssertMutuallyPrime, b, c); // Fails
In the above example, the final assertion fails and the predicate-formatter produces the following failure message:
b and c (4 and 10) are not mutually prime, as they have a common divisor 2
The following assertions test for HRESULT
success or failure. For example:
CComPtr<IShellDispatch2> shell;
ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(shell.CoCreateInstance(L"Shell.Application"));
CComVariant empty;
ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(shell->ShellExecute(CComBSTR(url), empty, empty, empty, empty));
The generated output contains the human-readable error message associated with
the returned HRESULT
code.
EXPECT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(
expression
)
\
ASSERT_HRESULT_SUCCEEDED(
expression
)
Verifies that expression
is a success HRESULT
.
EXPECT_HRESULT_FAILED(
expression
)
\
EXPECT_HRESULT_FAILED(
expression
)
Verifies that expression
is a failure HRESULT
.
The following assertions verify that a piece of code causes the process to terminate. For context, see Death Tests.
These assertions spawn a new process and execute the code under test in that
process. How that happens depends on the platform and the variable
::testing::GTEST_FLAG(death_test_style)
, which is initialized from the
command-line flag --gtest_death_test_style
.
fork()
(or clone()
on Linux) is used to spawn the
child, after which:
"fast"
, the death test statement is
immediately executed."threadsafe"
, the child process re-executes
the unit test binary just as it was originally invoked, but with some
extra flags to cause just the single death test under consideration to
be run.CreateProcess()
API, and
re-executes the binary to cause just the single death test under
consideration to be run - much like the "threadsafe"
mode on POSIX.Other values for the variable are illegal and will cause the death test to fail.
Currently, the flag's default value is
"fast"
.
If the death test statement runs to completion without dying, the child process will nonetheless terminate, and the assertion fails.
Note that the piece of code under test can be a compound statement, for example:
EXPECT_DEATH({
int n = 5;
DoSomething(&n);
}, "Error on line .* of DoSomething()");
EXPECT_DEATH(
statement
,
matcher
)
\
ASSERT_DEATH(
statement
,
matcher
)
Verifies that statement
causes the process to terminate with a nonzero exit
status and produces stderr
output that matches matcher
.
The parameter matcher
is either a matcher for a const
std::string&
, or a regular expression (see
Regular Expression Syntax)—a bare
string s
(with no matcher) is treated as
ContainsRegex(s)
, not
Eq(s)
.
For example, the following code verifies that calling DoSomething(42)
causes
the process to die with an error message that contains the text My error
:
EXPECT_DEATH(DoSomething(42), "My error");
EXPECT_DEATH_IF_SUPPORTED(
statement
,
matcher
)
\
ASSERT_DEATH_IF_SUPPORTED(
statement
,
matcher
)
If death tests are supported, behaves the same as
EXPECT_DEATH
. Otherwise, verifies nothing.
EXPECT_DEBUG_DEATH(
statement
,
matcher
)
\
ASSERT_DEBUG_DEATH(
statement
,
matcher
)
In debug mode, behaves the same as EXPECT_DEATH
. When not in
debug mode (i.e. NDEBUG
is defined), just executes statement
.
EXPECT_EXIT(
statement
,
predicate
,
matcher
)
\
ASSERT_EXIT(
statement
,
predicate
,
matcher
)
Verifies that statement
causes the process to terminate with an exit status
that satisfies predicate
, and produces stderr
output that matches
matcher
.
The parameter predicate
is a function or functor that accepts an int
exit
status and returns a bool
. GoogleTest provides two predicates to handle common
cases:
// Returns true if the program exited normally with the given exit status code.
::testing::ExitedWithCode(exit_code);
// Returns true if the program was killed by the given signal.
// Not available on Windows.
::testing::KilledBySignal(signal_number);
The parameter matcher
is either a matcher for a const
std::string&
, or a regular expression (see
Regular Expression Syntax)—a bare
string s
(with no matcher) is treated as
ContainsRegex(s)
, not
Eq(s)
.
For example, the following code verifies that calling NormalExit()
causes the
process to print a message containing the text Success
to stderr
and exit
with exit status code 0:
EXPECT_EXIT(NormalExit(), testing::ExitedWithCode(0), "Success");