I c u Test

Unit testing is an important part of designing and developing code. Here are 5 reasons why.

1. Unit testing allows you to test your code all the time, in an easy way. Instant gratification, if you will.
2.  If one starts unit testing early in the process of writing their code, then it leads to a better design.Your method names and classes will be based on the tests you write and can therefore help you organize your code.
3. Unit testing allows one to make changes very easily to your code later down the line. Developing a good baseline of tests, lets you refactor you code easily because you know it works allready.
4. Since unit tests actually "test your code," you can "try to break it." This will give you an understanding of your code you would not have if not testing.
5. And the most important (for your boss)

This Is Why Unit Testing Is Important

CxxTest for C++ is a very nice way to write unit tests and do unit testing in C++. Cpp files are generated with perl from your regular classes and then you compile those and run them. You therefore do not have to declare your tests in your regular code and can just attach their framework to do your testing. It even has an awesome plugin for eclipse that lets you easily write tests and use them through a gui.

Some of the features (as taken from its own description):

•     Doesn't require Runtime Type information.
•     Doesn't require member template functions.
•     Doesn't require exception handling.
•     Doesn't require any external libraries (including memory management, file/console I/O, graphics libraries.)
•     Is distributed entirely as a set of header files.

Testing is done by writing test cases mainly with a function called TS_Assert(). It works very similar to the standard Assert() macro. You just put whatever function you want to test inside it say,

     TS_ASSERT( 1 + 1 > 1 );
or

     TS_ASSERT_EQUALS( square(2),4 );