From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-12-27 03:38:37
"Pierre-Jules Tremblay" <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> One suggestion might be to add a new class of fixture. There is a feature
> for test case specific fixtures, another for test suite-specifc fixtures,
> and the perhaps ill-named global fixture, which is run independently for
> all
> test cases. Perhaps there should be another fixture, a really global one,
> which is constructed before all tests are run and destroyed after all
> tests
> are run. A static variable won't cut it because of the
> order-of-initialisation fiasco.
I might be missing something, but from my understanding that is what
BOOST_GLOBAL_FIXTURE is doing. It is setup leg executed before testing is
started. Teardown once all tests are completed.
Gennadiy