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<title>catch3/examples/300-Gen-OwnGenerator.cpp, branch ci/codeql-pin</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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<title>Give Catch3 its own build names and headers</title>
<updated>2026-10-24T23:37:35+00:00</updated>
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<name>Leitwolf11</name>
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<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>
<title>Allow generators to declare themselves (infinite)</title>
<updated>2026-02-10T08:37:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-02-09T18:05:39+00:00</published>
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This will be useful later to implement warning on infinitely
running `GENERATE` expressions.
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This will be useful later to implement warning on infinitely
running `GENERATE` expressions.
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<entry>
<title>Add option to skip forward to the generator interface</title>
<updated>2026-01-12T15:58:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2025-10-06T09:47:38+00:00</published>
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<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>
<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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<title>Replace all uses of std::unique_ptr with Catch::Detail::unique_ptr</title>
<updated>2020-05-31T13:20:24+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-05-25T07:45:24+00:00</published>
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Doing some benchmarking with ClangBuildAnalyzer suggests that
compiling Catch2's `SelfTest` spends 10% of the time instantiating
`std::unique_ptr` for some interface types required for registering
and running tests.

The lesser compilation overhead of `Catch::Detail::unique_ptr` should
significantly reduce that time.

The compiled implementation was also changed to use the custom impl,
to avoid having to convert between using `std::unique_ptr` and
`Catch::Detail::unique_ptr`. This will likely also improve the compile
times of the implementation, but that is less important than improving
compilation times of the user's TUs with tests.
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Doing some benchmarking with ClangBuildAnalyzer suggests that
compiling Catch2's `SelfTest` spends 10% of the time instantiating
`std::unique_ptr` for some interface types required for registering
and running tests.

The lesser compilation overhead of `Catch::Detail::unique_ptr` should
significantly reduce that time.

The compiled implementation was also changed to use the custom impl,
to avoid having to convert between using `std::unique_ptr` and
`Catch::Detail::unique_ptr`. This will likely also improve the compile
times of the implementation, but that is less important than improving
compilation times of the user's TUs with tests.
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<title>Standardize header names and file locations</title>
<updated>2020-04-24T16:58:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-03-30T08:34:21+00:00</published>
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This is both a really big and a really small commit. It is small in
that it only contains renaming, moving and modification of include
directives caused by this.

It is really big in the obvious way of touching something like 200
files.

The new rules for naming files is simple: headers use the `.hpp`
extension. The rules for physical file layout is still kinda in
progress, but the basics are also simple:
 * Significant parts of functionality get their own subfolder
   * Benchmarking is in `catch2/benchmark`
   * Matchers are in `catch2/matchers`
   * Generators are in `catch2/generators`
   * Reporters are in `catch2/reporters`
   * Baseline testing facilities are in `catch2/`
 * Various top level folders also contain `internal` subfolder,
   with files that users probably do not want to include directly,
   at least not until they have to write something like their own
   reporter.
    * The exact files in these subfolders is likely to change later
      on

Note that while some includes were cleaned up in this commit, it
is only the low hanging fruit and further cleanup using automatic
tooling will happen later.

Also note that various include guards, copyright notices and file
headers will also be standardized later, rather than in this commit.
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This is both a really big and a really small commit. It is small in
that it only contains renaming, moving and modification of include
directives caused by this.

It is really big in the obvious way of touching something like 200
files.

The new rules for naming files is simple: headers use the `.hpp`
extension. The rules for physical file layout is still kinda in
progress, but the basics are also simple:
 * Significant parts of functionality get their own subfolder
   * Benchmarking is in `catch2/benchmark`
   * Matchers are in `catch2/matchers`
   * Generators are in `catch2/generators`
   * Reporters are in `catch2/reporters`
   * Baseline testing facilities are in `catch2/`
 * Various top level folders also contain `internal` subfolder,
   with files that users probably do not want to include directly,
   at least not until they have to write something like their own
   reporter.
    * The exact files in these subfolders is likely to change later
      on

Note that while some includes were cleaned up in this commit, it
is only the low hanging fruit and further cleanup using automatic
tooling will happen later.

Also note that various include guards, copyright notices and file
headers will also be standardized later, rather than in this commit.
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<entry>
<title>Fix warnings in ExtraTests and Examples</title>
<updated>2020-02-26T15:07:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-02-25T11:39:40+00:00</published>
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<title>Use std::make_unique instead of our polyfill or naked new</title>
<updated>2020-02-01T22:34:00+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-02-01T20:43:00+00:00</published>
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The use we previously used the polyfill or naked new is that we
supported C++11, which did not yet have `std::make_unique`. However,
with the move to C++14 as the minimum, `std::make_unique` can be
expected to be always available.
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The use we previously used the polyfill or naked new is that we
supported C++11, which did not yet have `std::make_unique`. However,
with the move to C++14 as the minimum, `std::make_unique` can be
expected to be always available.
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<entry>
<title>Convert examples to piecemeal includes</title>
<updated>2020-01-21T13:46:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-01-21T13:46:07+00:00</published>
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