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It looks like a nice test framework, but it doesn't appear to help at all with the really hard problems you face with testing C++ -- isolating the unit under test for separate compilation, and the development and inclusion of mocks/stubs.

Anyone know of a really good (preferably simple and pragmatic) C++ mocking/stubbing framework to go with this?

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Why do you want to compile the unit test separately?

Because that's what makes it a unit test -- you only want the unit, the tests and any stubs/mocks in the executable. Anything more and you have an integration test on your hands.

Pulling a single unit out of a legacy codebase can be difficult, especially when you don't want to actually move, copy, or modify the source-files; stubbing out the dependencies and writing mock objects to verify your expectations of what the code should be doing are also very time-consuming.

Those are the hard parts of unit testing C++, and I wonder if anyone has found a good way of doing it (with a framework, or just a technique).

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