Roadmap

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This is a list of planned features for future releases (maybe in the given order).

• the set holding all registered tests should use a specialized allocator to minimize program startup time
• ability to have no output when everything succeeds
• test with gcc 6 and use it in the CI builds
• a mechanism for translating exceptions - users should be able to teach the framework about their types (look at Catch for this)
• support for std::exception and derivatives (mainly for calling the .what() method when caught unexpectedly)
• test with missed warning flags for GCC - look into https://github.com/Barro/compiler-warnings
• crash handling: signals on UNIX platforms or structured exceptions on Windows
• support for tags
  • may fail tag
  • invisible tag
  • look at Catch - https://github.com/philsquared/Catch/blob/master/docs/test-cases-and-sections.md#special-tags
• output to file
• reporters
  • a system for writing custom reporters
  • ability to use multiple reporters at once (but only 1 to stdout)
  • a compact reporter
  • an xml reporter
  • jUnit/xUnit reporters
• add the ability to query if code is currently being ran in a test - doctest::isRunningInTest()
• convolution support for the assertion macros (with a predicate)
• time stuff
  • reporting running time of tests
  • restricting duration of test cases
  • killing a test that exceeds a time limit (will perhaps require threading or processes)
• adding contextual info to asserts (logging) - with an INFO/CONTEXT /TRACEPOINT macro
• add ERROR/FAIL macros
• running tests a few times
• marking a test to run X times (should also multiply with the global test run times)
• test execution in separate processes - fork() for UNIX and this for Windows
• ability to provide a temp folder that is cleared between each test case
• detect floating point exceptions
• Bitwise() class that has overloaded operators for comparison - to be used to check objects bitwise against each other
• integrate static analysis on the CI: msvc, clang, cppcheck
• get a build with MinGW-w64 running on appveyor

And here is a list of things that are being considered but not part of the roadmap yet:

• look into MSTest integration
  • http://accu.org/index.php/journals/1851
  • https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh270865.aspx
  • also look into similar Xcode integration
• matchers - should investigate what they are :D
• generators? - look at Catch - and investigate what they are (also in boost
• option to list files in which there are test cases who match the current filters
• handle wchar strings
• explore extern template from C++11 - maybe some templates can be externed - for basic types like int/char/float...
• a progress reporter
• doctest in a GUI environment? with no console? APIs for attaching a console? querying if there is one? should investigate...
• ability to customize the colors in the console output
• pool allocator for the String class - currently very unoptimized
• ability to specify ASC/DESC for the order option
• drop support for VC6 - _MSC_VER == 1400 for VS 2005
• command line error handling/reporting
• utf8? not sure if this should be here
• print a warning when no assertion is encountered in a test case
• hierarchical test suites - using a stack for the pushed ones - should be easy
• put everything from the detail namespace also in a nested anonymous namespace to make them with internal linkage
• ability to re-run only newly compiled tests based on time stamps using __DATE__ and __TIME__ - stored in some file
• submit to boost?
• fix all the hacks in the cmake scripts for OSX (they are mainly for gcc 4.4)
• the range_based_execution example sometimes leaves one subprocess running and hangs ctest - should fix probably the python script

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