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Nordlöw
Nordlöw

Reputation: 12138

Disabling automatic capturing of C++ exceptions in Googletest unittests

Is there a way to disable automatic capturing of C++ exceptions when running unittests with Google test? This in order to get better context of the origin of an error.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 1975

Answers (1)

CharonX
CharonX

Reputation: 2208

As Yksisarvinen mentioned, by invoking the test executable with --gtest_catch_exceptions=0 you should be able to keep googletest from catching exceptions (if that is what you want - the test application will probably crash messily instead).

That said, it depends on what you want to achieve:
In my test suits I make sure to encapsulate functions that throw() exceptions in a try-catch block so I can quickly determine what went wrong (if/when they fail), and (if necessary) then manually check the issue with a debugger.

Upvotes: 3

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