Do not emit stack traces for messages generated by SUCCEED()

Stack traces in assertion failures are an extremely useful tool for
developers tasked with investigating failing tests. It's difficult to
understate this. In contrast to ordinary test assertions (e.g.,
ASSERT_TRUE or EXPECT_FALSE), SUCCEED() is a developer-authored
directive that indicates a success codepath. In fact, the documentation
states that this directive doesn't generate any output. Generating stack
traces for uses of SUCCEED() is wasted work since they are never
printed. If this were to change one day in the future, they still would
not be useful since any emitted message would include the file and line
number where SUCCEED was used. In addition to being noise in the output
in this case, symbolization of stack traces is not free. In some
Chromium configurations, symbolization for use of SUCCEED() can incur a
cost in excess of 25 seconds for a test that otherwise takes 0-1ms; see
https://crbug.com/1517343.

In this CL, we suppress generation and emission of stack traces for
kSuccess messages to reduce the overhead of SUCCEED().

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README.md

GoogleTest

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GoogleTest now follows the Abseil Live at Head philosophy. We recommend updating to the latest commit in the main branch as often as possible. We do publish occasional semantic versions, tagged with v${major}.${minor}.${patch} (e.g. v1.14.0).

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Release 1.14.0

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GitHub Actions were added for the convenience of open-source contributors. They are exclusively maintained by the open-source community and not used by the GoogleTest team.

Coming Soon

  • We are planning to take a dependency on Abseil.
  • More documentation improvements are planned.

Welcome to GoogleTest, Google's C++ test framework!

This repository is a merger of the formerly separate GoogleTest and GoogleMock projects. These were so closely related that it makes sense to maintain and release them together.

Getting Started

See the GoogleTest User's Guide for documentation. We recommend starting with the GoogleTest Primer.

More information about building GoogleTest can be found at googletest/README.md.

Features

  • xUnit test framework:
    Googletest is based on the xUnit testing framework, a popular architecture for unit testing
  • Test discovery:
    Googletest automatically discovers and runs your tests, eliminating the need to manually register your tests
  • Rich set of assertions:
    Googletest provides a variety of assertions, such as equality, inequality, exceptions, and more, making it easy to test your code
  • User-defined assertions:
    You can define your own assertions with Googletest, making it simple to write tests that are specific to your code
  • Death tests:
    Googletest supports death tests, which verify that your code exits in a certain way, making it useful for testing error-handling code
  • Fatal and non-fatal failures:
    You can specify whether a test failure should be treated as fatal or non-fatal with Googletest, allowing tests to continue running even if a failure occurs
  • Value-parameterized tests:
    Googletest supports value-parameterized tests, which run multiple times with different input values, making it useful for testing functions that take different inputs
  • Type-parameterized tests:
    Googletest also supports type-parameterized tests, which run with different data types, making it useful for testing functions that work with different data types
  • Various options for running tests:
    Googletest provides many options for running tests including running individual tests, running tests in a specific order and running tests in parallel

Supported Platforms

GoogleTest follows Google's Foundational C++ Support Policy. See this table for a list of currently supported versions of compilers, platforms, and build tools.

Who Is Using GoogleTest?

In addition to many internal projects at Google, GoogleTest is also used by the following notable projects:

Related Open Source Projects

GTest Runner is a Qt5 based automated test-runner and Graphical User Interface with powerful features for Windows and Linux platforms.

GoogleTest UI is a test runner that runs your test binary, allows you to track its progress via a progress bar, and displays a list of test failures. Clicking on one shows failure text. GoogleTest UI is written in C#.

GTest TAP Listener is an event listener for GoogleTest that implements the TAP protocol for test result output. If your test runner understands TAP, you may find it useful.

gtest-parallel is a test runner that runs tests from your binary in parallel to provide significant speed-up.

GoogleTest Adapter is a VS Code extension allowing to view GoogleTest in a tree view and run/debug your tests.

C++ TestMate is a VS Code extension allowing to view GoogleTest in a tree view and run/debug your tests.

Cornichon is a small Gherkin DSL parser that generates stub code for GoogleTest.

Contributing Changes

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details on how to contribute to this project.

Happy testing!