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<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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<title>Avoid per-input alloc+copy in WildcardPattern::matches</title>
<updated>2026-09-11T09:21:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-09-09T18:15:30+00:00</published>
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The old implementation always forced copy (and likely alloc) for
each input when matching it. The new implementation uses the
case-insensitive comparators to avoid all that.

This provides interesting performance improvement for selecting
individual test, doing something like `./tests/SelfTest "ABC*"`
is almost 10% faster.
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The old implementation always forced copy (and likely alloc) for
each input when matching it. The new implementation uses the
case-insensitive comparators to avoid all that.

This provides interesting performance improvement for selecting
individual test, doing something like `./tests/SelfTest "ABC*"`
is almost 10% faster.
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<title>Move filtered test cases into the FilterMatch instead of copying</title>
<updated>2026-09-11T09:16:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-09-07T19:20:02+00:00</published>
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<title>Fix Wredundant-decls</title>
<updated>2023-05-12T07:51:13+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-05-12T07:50:59+00:00</published>
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Closes #2682
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Closes #2682
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<entry>
<title>Some template instantiation reductions</title>
<updated>2023-05-01T11:21:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-04-29T12:29:59+00:00</published>
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<title>Split ITestInvoker into its own header</title>
<updated>2023-03-23T15:50:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-03-23T13:02:45+00:00</published>
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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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<title>Provide round-tripping serialization for TestSpec</title>
<updated>2022-10-27T16:23:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2022-10-27T15:10:28+00:00</published>
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<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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<entry>
<title>Rename reportInvalidArguments -&gt; reportInvalidTestSpec</title>
<updated>2021-12-18T19:49:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-12-12T20:54:00+00:00</published>
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This is has been what it actually does for a long time, but it
has not been renamed earlier due to API compatibility.
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This is has been what it actually does for a long time, but it
has not been renamed earlier due to API compatibility.
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