common C++ test suite

[Chad Yates]

Common C++ community,

As some of you may remember, I wrote some test suites in cppunit last month
and I would like to submit them as the beginnings of a common C++ test suite
as we had discussed then.  however it has a couple of issues I am hoping a
more experienced common c++ developer or maintainer can help with, as I am a
gnu autoconfig/automake newbie, I'll admit it. :)  also since I typically
develop using m$ visual studio 6.0 I'm not that proficient with
developing/debugging on the linux environment.

My date classes have some tests that are failing now with the recent patches
submitted that add the new YYYY/MM/DD style formats instead of the YYYYMMDD
formats.  whether the interface is changing or whether the tests need to be
updated to the new format needs to be determined.

My persistence tests (pretty extensive), work fine under windows, but throw
exceptions under linux.  I don't yet know why, and since I haven't come to
grips with a linux debugger yet (I've been babied by VC++'s gui debugger), I
can't dig into the reason yet.  I have another test case under windows, but
am not going to add it at this time as it has some linux compilation issues.

There are generalized test classes for the digest tests, however I could
never seem to get decent results out of the SHA digests on windows, they may
work fine under linux, though the testcase registration macros are commented
out right now.

There are also tests for the urlstring file including base64 encode decode.

I have attached a zip file containing a zipped directory called ccxx_tests
designed to be uncompressed under the commoncpp2 main directory.  eventually
I would hope the contents would live in tests instead, and all the existing
tests changed to components of the cppunit test suites, or something
similar.

I have also attached a diff of the changes I made to the configure.in and
Makefile.am to get it to build for me on my linux machine, however, I didn't
get the check for cppunit to work to my liking, and am sure the changes I
made were not ideal.  hopefully someone with more expertise in
autoconf/automake can make better changes there.

Anyway, I wanted to get this out there and in cvs so others can contribute
if wanted, and so we would have somewhat of a base to start/learn from.
Also, it would be a good habit for contributors to get the hang of adding
suites/testcases while finding/resolving bugs and making enhancements. This
way some inadvertant sideffects can hopefully be avoided.

Cheers,

chad

P.S. I spoke with albert today, and he will be contributing his testcases
etc a bit later.  Feel free to contact me if you have questions,
comments/suggestions, or if you have trouble compiling it.  I will
contribute new suites/testcases as I develop them.

ccxx_tests.zip
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ccxx_tests_patch.diff
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