How do you run your unit tests? Compiler flags? Static libraries?

Question

I\'m just getting started with TDD and am curious as to what approaches others take to run their tests. For reference, I am using the google testing framework, but I believe the

Answer 1

I go with #1, some reasons are

• It allows to check that each lib links correctly
• You don't want extra code in the product
• It's easier to debug individual small test programs
• You may need multiple executables for some tests (like communication tests)

For C++ build and test, I like to use CMake which can run a selection of the target executables as tests and print a summary of the results.