Testing private class member in C++ without friend [duplicate]

Answer 1

I am sorry to advice this, but it helped me when most methods in those answers are not achievable without strong refactoring: add before the header for the file with the class whose private members you wish to access,

#define private public

It is evil, but

• doesn't interfere with production code

• does not break encapsulation as friend / changing access level does

• avoids heavy refactoring with PIMPL idiom

so you may go for it...