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<title>catch3/src/catch2/catch_test_case_info.hpp, branch feature/cpp-tools</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>
<author>
<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>Faster check for duplicated test cases</title>
<updated>2026-09-06T18:08:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-09-06T17:02:48+00:00</published>
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By avoiding `std::set`, we save 1 allocation per checked test case,
and the sort + pairwise check has much nicer cache behaviour, leading
to much faster check.

Overall, the check is only a tiny part of the startup overhead, but
the improvement is large enough that it ends up measurable in binaries
with many tests (e.g. `SelfTest`).
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By avoiding `std::set`, we save 1 allocation per checked test case,
and the sort + pairwise check has much nicer cache behaviour, leading
to much faster check.

Overall, the check is only a tiny part of the startup overhead, but
the improvement is large enough that it ends up measurable in binaries
with many tests (e.g. `SelfTest`).
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<entry>
<title>Sprinkle some constexpr around to make Jason happy</title>
<updated>2024-09-13T14:40:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2024-09-13T09:16:20+00:00</published>
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Most of these will not matter in practice due to C++14 imposing
significant limitations on what else we can make constexpr, and we cannot
have references outliving the constexpr context either way.
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Most of these will not matter in practice due to C++14 imposing
significant limitations on what else we can make constexpr, and we cannot
have references outliving the constexpr context either way.
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<entry>
<title>v3.7.0</title>
<updated>2024-08-14T10:05:21+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2024-08-14T10:05:21+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>TEST_CASE_PERSISTENT_FIXTURE: A new fixture macro for allowing persistent fixtures throughout a TEST_CASE (#2885)</title>
<updated>2024-08-05T15:01:41+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Keith Stockdale</name>
</author>
<published>2024-08-05T15:01:41+00:00</published>
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This PR introduces a new `TEST_CASE` macro called `TEST_CASE_PERSISTENT_FIXTURE`. `TEST_CASE_PERSISTENT_FIXTURE` offers the same functionality as `TEST_CASE_METHOD` except for one difference. The object on which the test method is invoked is only created once for all invocations of the test case. The object is created just after the `testCaseStarting` event is broadcast and the object is destroyed just before the `testCaseEnding` event is broadcast.

The main motivation for this new functionality is to allow `TEST_CASE`s to do expensive setup and teardown once per `TEST_CASE`, without having to resort to abusing event listeners or static function variables with manual initialization.


Implements #1602

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Co-authored-by: Martin Hořeňovský &lt;martin.horenovsky@gmail.com&gt;</content>
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This PR introduces a new `TEST_CASE` macro called `TEST_CASE_PERSISTENT_FIXTURE`. `TEST_CASE_PERSISTENT_FIXTURE` offers the same functionality as `TEST_CASE_METHOD` except for one difference. The object on which the test method is invoked is only created once for all invocations of the test case. The object is created just after the `testCaseStarting` event is broadcast and the object is destroyed just before the `testCaseEnding` event is broadcast.

The main motivation for this new functionality is to allow `TEST_CASE`s to do expensive setup and teardown once per `TEST_CASE`, without having to resort to abusing event listeners or static function variables with manual initialization.


Implements #1602

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Co-authored-by: Martin Hořeňovský &lt;martin.horenovsky@gmail.com&gt;</pre>
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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>
<title>Cleanup includes in sources</title>
<updated>2023-12-23T10:23:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-12-21T17:42:40+00:00</published>
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Mainly just removes some unused includes, but sometimes the include
is replaced by a smaller header instead.
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Mainly just removes some unused includes, but sometimes the include
is replaced by a smaller header instead.
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<entry>
<title>Fix build with GCC 13 (add missing &lt;cstdint&gt; include)</title>
<updated>2023-01-08T19:08:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sam James</name>
</author>
<published>2023-01-08T02:03:32+00:00</published>
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GCC 13 (as usual for new compiler releases) shuffles around some
internal includes and so &lt;cstdint&gt; is no longer transitively included.

Explicitly include &lt;cstdint&gt; for uint64_t.

```
FAILED: src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/g++-13  -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/.. -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1_build/generated-includes  -O2 -pipe
-march=native -fdiagnostics-color=always -frecord-gcc-switches -Wreturn-type -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS  -ggdb3 -fdiagnostics-color=always
-ffile-prefix-map=/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1=. -Wall -Wc++20-compat -Wcast-align -Wcatch-value -Wdeprecated -Wexceptions -Wextra -Wextra-semi -Wfloat-equal -Winit-self
-Wmisleading-indentation -Wmismatched-new-delete -Wmismatched-tags -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wnull-dereference -Wold-style-cast -Woverloaded-virtual -Wparentheses
-Wpedantic -Wreorder -Wshadow -Wstrict-aliasing -Wsuggest-override -Wundef -Wuninitialized -Wunreachable-code -Wunused -Wunused-function -Wunused-parameter -Wvla -MD -MT
src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o -MF src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o.d -o src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o -c
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp
In file included from /var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp:12:
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/../catch2/internal/catch_string_manip.hpp:47:14: error: 'uint64_t' in namespace 'std' does not name a type; did you mean 'wint_t'?
   47 |         std::uint64_t m_count;
      |              ^~~~~~~~
      |              wint_t
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/../catch2/internal/catch_string_manip.hpp:51:42: error: expected ')' before 'count'
   51 |         constexpr pluralise(std::uint64_t count, StringRef label):
      |                            ~             ^~~~~~
      |                                          )
```
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GCC 13 (as usual for new compiler releases) shuffles around some
internal includes and so &lt;cstdint&gt; is no longer transitively included.

Explicitly include &lt;cstdint&gt; for uint64_t.

```
FAILED: src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o
/usr/lib/ccache/bin/g++-13  -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/.. -I/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1_build/generated-includes  -O2 -pipe
-march=native -fdiagnostics-color=always -frecord-gcc-switches -Wreturn-type -D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS  -ggdb3 -fdiagnostics-color=always
-ffile-prefix-map=/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1=. -Wall -Wc++20-compat -Wcast-align -Wcatch-value -Wdeprecated -Wexceptions -Wextra -Wextra-semi -Wfloat-equal -Winit-self
-Wmisleading-indentation -Wmismatched-new-delete -Wmismatched-tags -Wmissing-braces -Wmissing-declarations -Wmissing-noreturn -Wnull-dereference -Wold-style-cast -Woverloaded-virtual -Wparentheses
-Wpedantic -Wreorder -Wshadow -Wstrict-aliasing -Wsuggest-override -Wundef -Wuninitialized -Wunreachable-code -Wunused -Wunused-function -Wunused-parameter -Wvla -MD -MT
src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o -MF src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o.d -o src/CMakeFiles/Catch2.dir/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp.o -c
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp
In file included from /var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/internal/catch_clara.cpp:12:
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/../catch2/internal/catch_string_manip.hpp:47:14: error: 'uint64_t' in namespace 'std' does not name a type; did you mean 'wint_t'?
   47 |         std::uint64_t m_count;
      |              ^~~~~~~~
      |              wint_t
/var/tmp/portage/dev-cpp/catch-3.0.1/work/Catch2-3.0.1/src/catch2/../catch2/internal/catch_string_manip.hpp:51:42: error: expected ')' before 'count'
   51 |         constexpr pluralise(std::uint64_t count, StringRef label):
      |                            ~             ^~~~~~
      |                                          )
```
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<entry>
<title>Fix references to license file</title>
<updated>2022-10-28T09:30:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Lars Toenning</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-28T09:22:53+00:00</published>
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The license file was renamed with 6a502cc2f5fedd59b3495b58708f0d6d987ed9e1
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The license file was renamed with 6a502cc2f5fedd59b3495b58708f0d6d987ed9e1
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<entry>
<title>struct -&gt; class normalization for various interface types</title>
<updated>2022-04-11T16:32:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2022-04-10T22:00:19+00:00</published>
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