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<title>catch3/examples/210-Evt-EventListeners.cpp, branch feature/mocking</title>
<subtitle>Progmasoft Catch3: an independently maintained C++17 test framework with a parallel runner, property checks, snapshots and structured results.</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Say C++17 everywhere the project describes itself</title>
<updated>2026-10-31T21:25:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-10-31T21:25:59+00:00</published>
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The move to C++17 left a trail of older claims. The Runner's own
.clang-format still said c++20; the result is byte for byte the same under
either value. Premake and Xmake still compiled the library as C++20 and
the main library as C++14, which meant their CI jobs were not testing the
language the project promises. Both now use C++17 for every target.

The rest is text: the Meson pkg-config description claimed C++14, comments
in the CMake and Meson files explained requirements that no longer exist,
.clang-tidy gave C++14 as the reason for two exclusions, issue templates
asked for C++20 samples, and the example headers named -std=c++14 and
catch2-with-main. The release notes and the migration guide state the
C++17 minimum. Doxygen's brief called the project "Catch2's test API",
which presents it as Catch2. Meson declared only BSL-1.0; it now names both
licenses of the tree. The amalgamated files are regenerated.
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The move to C++17 left a trail of older claims. The Runner's own
.clang-format still said c++20; the result is byte for byte the same under
either value. Premake and Xmake still compiled the library as C++20 and
the main library as C++14, which meant their CI jobs were not testing the
language the project promises. Both now use C++17 for every target.

The rest is text: the Meson pkg-config description claimed C++14, comments
in the CMake and Meson files explained requirements that no longer exist,
.clang-tidy gave C++14 as the reason for two exclusions, issue templates
asked for C++20 samples, and the example headers named -std=c++14 and
catch2-with-main. The release notes and the migration guide state the
C++17 minimum. Doxygen's brief called the project "Catch2's test API",
which presents it as Catch2. Meson declared only BSL-1.0; it now names both
licenses of the tree. The amalgamated files are regenerated.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Give Catch3 its own build names and headers</title>
<updated>2026-10-24T23:37:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-10-24T23:37:35+00:00</published>
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Catch2 compatibility means the API tests are written in: the macros, such
as TEST_CASE and REQUIRE, and the Catch:: namespace. It does not mean
Catch2's build names or header paths. find_package(Catch2) found Catch3,
and a project using both frameworks met two packages, two sets of targets,
two Catch.cmake modules and two catch2/ header trees with the same names.

Build names:
- CMake: project and package Catch3, targets Catch3::Catch3 and
  Catch3::Catch3WithMain, libraries Catch3 and Catch3Main, options
  CATCH3_*, lib/cmake/Catch3 with Catch3Config, and pkg-config catch3 and
  catch3-with-main. The version is Catch3's, 0.3.0, compatible within a
  minor version.
- The CMake scripts are Catch3.cmake (catch3_discover_tests),
  Catch3AddTests.cmake and Catch3ShardTests.cmake
  (catch3_add_sharded_tests); the helpers they define at ctest time have a
  catch3_ prefix. ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake, deprecated upstream, is gone.
- Bazel //:catch3 and //:catch3_main, Meson catch3 and catch3-with-main
  (with override_dependency), Xmake catch3 and catch3_main, Premake Catch3
  and Catch3WithMain. Visual Studio projects get GUIDs of their own.
- The Progmasoft::Catch3 target and package are gone: property testing
  and snapshots are part of Catch3::Catch3. Their sources now build with
  the library's warning flags, so property failures are built field by
  field (no missing initializers) and the default property name is a
  thread-local pointer to the name its scope owns (no global destructor).

Headers: the engine moved from src/catch2 to src/Progmasoft/Catch3 with
Progmasoft names, so &lt;catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp&gt; is
&lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/TestMacros.hpp&gt;, &lt;catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_string.hpp&gt;
is &lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/Matchers/String.hpp&gt;, and interface headers are named
after their interface, such as Interfaces/IConfig.hpp. Include guards
became #pragma once. The installed headers go to include/Progmasoft.
src/Progmasoft/Context.cpp is StrategyContext.cpp, so no two sources share
a file name.

tools/scripts/upstreamFiles.txt lists the files that come from Catch2.
The license check expects BSL-1.0 on them and Progmasoft's header on the
rest of src/Progmasoft; the convenience-header check, the amalgamation
script and the surrogate tests take the engine's headers from it. The
amalgamated files are regenerated. The header-guard workflow checks for
#pragma once instead of checkguard.

Documents, the README and the release notes describe the new names.
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Catch2 compatibility means the API tests are written in: the macros, such
as TEST_CASE and REQUIRE, and the Catch:: namespace. It does not mean
Catch2's build names or header paths. find_package(Catch2) found Catch3,
and a project using both frameworks met two packages, two sets of targets,
two Catch.cmake modules and two catch2/ header trees with the same names.

Build names:
- CMake: project and package Catch3, targets Catch3::Catch3 and
  Catch3::Catch3WithMain, libraries Catch3 and Catch3Main, options
  CATCH3_*, lib/cmake/Catch3 with Catch3Config, and pkg-config catch3 and
  catch3-with-main. The version is Catch3's, 0.3.0, compatible within a
  minor version.
- The CMake scripts are Catch3.cmake (catch3_discover_tests),
  Catch3AddTests.cmake and Catch3ShardTests.cmake
  (catch3_add_sharded_tests); the helpers they define at ctest time have a
  catch3_ prefix. ParseAndAddCatchTests.cmake, deprecated upstream, is gone.
- Bazel //:catch3 and //:catch3_main, Meson catch3 and catch3-with-main
  (with override_dependency), Xmake catch3 and catch3_main, Premake Catch3
  and Catch3WithMain. Visual Studio projects get GUIDs of their own.
- The Progmasoft::Catch3 target and package are gone: property testing
  and snapshots are part of Catch3::Catch3. Their sources now build with
  the library's warning flags, so property failures are built field by
  field (no missing initializers) and the default property name is a
  thread-local pointer to the name its scope owns (no global destructor).

Headers: the engine moved from src/catch2 to src/Progmasoft/Catch3 with
Progmasoft names, so &lt;catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp&gt; is
&lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/TestMacros.hpp&gt;, &lt;catch2/matchers/catch_matchers_string.hpp&gt;
is &lt;Progmasoft/Catch3/Matchers/String.hpp&gt;, and interface headers are named
after their interface, such as Interfaces/IConfig.hpp. Include guards
became #pragma once. The installed headers go to include/Progmasoft.
src/Progmasoft/Context.cpp is StrategyContext.cpp, so no two sources share
a file name.

tools/scripts/upstreamFiles.txt lists the files that come from Catch2.
The license check expects BSL-1.0 on them and Progmasoft's header on the
rest of src/Progmasoft; the convenience-header check, the amalgamation
script and the surrogate tests take the engine's headers from it. The
amalgamated files are regenerated. The header-guard workflow checks for
#pragma once instead of checkguard.

Documents, the README and the release notes describe the new names.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Replace Catch2's runner with the Catch3 runner</title>
<updated>2026-10-23T20:25:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Leitwolf11</name>
</author>
<published>2026-10-23T20:25:41+00:00</published>
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Catch3 keeps Catch2's API for writing tests (test cases, sections,
assertions, matchers, generators, listeners, benchmarks) and replaces its
session, command line and reporters with a runner of its own.

The runner starts the test binary again as worker processes that take the
next test when they are free. A crash, an exit or a hang ends one test, not
the run. On top of that it adds:

- retries that tell deterministic, flaky and order-dependent failures
  apart, and a bisection that names the test leaving state behind;
- a history of verdicts and durations, kept under a file lock, that drives
  automatic quarantine, adaptive time limits, predictive ordering,
  incremental runs, failure replay and analytics;
- selection by change, past failure or prediction, dependency closure,
  and sharding by a stable hash or by recorded durations;
- tags for serial and isolated tests, shared resources, dependencies,
  time limits and retries;
- a failure category, a signature, an analysis and a replay command for
  every failure;
- console, JUnit XML (with flakyFailure and rerunFailure), JSON and Chrome
  trace reports, and a versioned discovery listing (--list=json);
- a temporary directory per test (TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP and
  TestTemporaryDirectory());
- Bazel's test environment: XML output file, test filter, sharding, seed,
  premature exit file and undeclared outputs.

The command line is parsed by a hand-written, typed parser. Catch::Session
remains as a thin facade over the runner for custom main functions.

The result model in Progmasoft/Catch3/Results.hpp was rewritten around
tests and attempts, and the JUnit writer now writes it. The property
engine's example database is updated under a file lock with an atomic
rename, so parallel workers can write it at the same time.

Removed: Clara, the command-line and reporter-spec parsers, every reporter
and CATCH_REGISTER_REPORTER, listing, text flow, console colour and width,
the JSON and XML writers, sharding in the test registry, approval tests and
their baselines, Conan packaging, and the unused third_party/clara.hpp.
Listeners keep working; reporters' list and skip events are gone.

The Catch2 library is now compiled as C++20; code that includes only
Catch2's headers still needs C++14. Duplicate test cases are still refused
at start-up. Version 0.3.0.

ExtraTests now turn exceptions off for clang-cl with MSVC-style options,
which -fno-exceptions did not do.
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Catch3 keeps Catch2's API for writing tests (test cases, sections,
assertions, matchers, generators, listeners, benchmarks) and replaces its
session, command line and reporters with a runner of its own.

The runner starts the test binary again as worker processes that take the
next test when they are free. A crash, an exit or a hang ends one test, not
the run. On top of that it adds:

- retries that tell deterministic, flaky and order-dependent failures
  apart, and a bisection that names the test leaving state behind;
- a history of verdicts and durations, kept under a file lock, that drives
  automatic quarantine, adaptive time limits, predictive ordering,
  incremental runs, failure replay and analytics;
- selection by change, past failure or prediction, dependency closure,
  and sharding by a stable hash or by recorded durations;
- tags for serial and isolated tests, shared resources, dependencies,
  time limits and retries;
- a failure category, a signature, an analysis and a replay command for
  every failure;
- console, JUnit XML (with flakyFailure and rerunFailure), JSON and Chrome
  trace reports, and a versioned discovery listing (--list=json);
- a temporary directory per test (TMPDIR, TMP, TEMP and
  TestTemporaryDirectory());
- Bazel's test environment: XML output file, test filter, sharding, seed,
  premature exit file and undeclared outputs.

The command line is parsed by a hand-written, typed parser. Catch::Session
remains as a thin facade over the runner for custom main functions.

The result model in Progmasoft/Catch3/Results.hpp was rewritten around
tests and attempts, and the JUnit writer now writes it. The property
engine's example database is updated under a file lock with an atomic
rename, so parallel workers can write it at the same time.

Removed: Clara, the command-line and reporter-spec parsers, every reporter
and CATCH_REGISTER_REPORTER, listing, text flow, console colour and width,
the JSON and XML writers, sharding in the test registry, approval tests and
their baselines, Conan packaging, and the unused third_party/clara.hpp.
Listeners keep working; reporters' list and skip events are gone.

The Catch2 library is now compiled as C++20; code that includes only
Catch2's headers still needs C++14. Duplicate test cases are still refused
at start-up. Version 0.3.0.

ExtraTests now turn exceptions off for clang-cl with MSVC-style options,
which -fno-exceptions did not do.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Constify various autoregistry globals to avoid clang-tidy complaints</title>
<updated>2025-07-15T13:23:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2025-07-15T12:42:18+00:00</published>
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Closes #2582
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Closes #2582
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<entry>
<title>Fix various useful clang-tidy warnings</title>
<updated>2024-03-01T20:24:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Jeřábek</name>
</author>
<published>2024-03-01T10:15:27+00:00</published>
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* bugprone-branch-clone
* bugprone-copy-constructor-init
* bugprone-empty-catch
* bugprone-sizeof-expression
* bugprone-switch-missing-default-case
* bugprone-unused-local-non-trivial-variable
* clang-analyzer-core.uninitialized.Assign
* clang-analyzer-cplusplus.Move
* clang-analyzer-optin.cplusplus.VirtualCall
* modernize-loop-convert
* modernize-raw-string-literal
* modernize-use-equals-default
* modernize-use-override
* modernize-use-using
* performance-avoid-endl
* performance-inefficient-string-concatenation
* performance-inefficient-vector-operation
* performance-noexcept-move-constructor
* performance-unnecessary-value-param (and improve generator example)
* readability-duplicate-include
* readability-inconsistent-declaration-parameter-name
* readability-non-const-parameter
* readability-redundant-casting
* readability-redundant-member-init
* readability-redundant-smartptr-get
* readability-static-accessed-through-instance
* unused variable in amalgamted tests
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* bugprone-branch-clone
* bugprone-copy-constructor-init
* bugprone-empty-catch
* bugprone-sizeof-expression
* bugprone-switch-missing-default-case
* bugprone-unused-local-non-trivial-variable
* clang-analyzer-core.uninitialized.Assign
* clang-analyzer-cplusplus.Move
* clang-analyzer-optin.cplusplus.VirtualCall
* modernize-loop-convert
* modernize-raw-string-literal
* modernize-use-equals-default
* modernize-use-override
* modernize-use-using
* performance-avoid-endl
* performance-inefficient-string-concatenation
* performance-inefficient-vector-operation
* performance-noexcept-move-constructor
* performance-unnecessary-value-param (and improve generator example)
* readability-duplicate-include
* readability-inconsistent-declaration-parameter-name
* readability-non-const-parameter
* readability-redundant-casting
* readability-redundant-member-init
* readability-redundant-smartptr-get
* readability-static-accessed-through-instance
* unused variable in amalgamted tests
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add nice license headers to files in examples/ and fuzzing/</title>
<updated>2023-08-24T14:34:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-08-24T14:33:15+00:00</published>
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Related to #2730
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Related to #2730
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Update documentation - add pkg-config examples.</title>
<updated>2022-06-05T13:58:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Petr Kubánek</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-24T08:07:17+00:00</published>
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Use -std=c++14 (instead of c++11). Pointers how to integrate with
pkg-config for non-CMake projects.
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Use -std=c++14 (instead of c++11). Pointers how to integrate with
pkg-config for non-CMake projects.
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Add -Wsuggest-destructor-override to enabled warnings</title>
<updated>2022-05-03T11:54:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2022-05-02T08:45:02+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Examples: remove references to catch_default_main</title>
<updated>2022-02-20T12:10:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Beard</name>
</author>
<published>2022-02-18T22:36:47+00:00</published>
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catch_default_main.hpp was removed in db32550898

The example 000-CatchMain.cpp is no longer compiled, but is still
present in the examples and is still references by other example
files. Remove the file and references to it, as they are confusing.
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catch_default_main.hpp was removed in db32550898

The example 000-CatchMain.cpp is no longer compiled, but is still
present in the examples and is still references by other example
files. Remove the file and references to it, as they are confusing.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Refactor implementation of case-insensitivity in tags</title>
<updated>2021-12-27T23:20:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-12-26T21:10:20+00:00</published>
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By not materializing the lower cased tags ahead of time, we
save allocations at the cost of worsened performance when comparing
two tags.

Since there are rarely many tags, and commonly they are not
compared even if present, this is almost always a win. The new
implementation also improves the robustness of the code
responsible for handling tags in a case-insensitive manner.
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By not materializing the lower cased tags ahead of time, we
save allocations at the cost of worsened performance when comparing
two tags.

Since there are rarely many tags, and commonly they are not
compared even if present, this is almost always a win. The new
implementation also improves the robustness of the code
responsible for handling tags in a case-insensitive manner.
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