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<title>catch3/src/catch2/interfaces/catch_interfaces_testcase.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>
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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>Don't store extra copy of all `TestCaseInfo*` in `TestRegistry`</title>
<updated>2026-08-22T21:28:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-08-22T21:28:11+00:00</published>
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We used to store a full vector of "views" of the registered test infos,
so that it can be retrieved externally. However, the only user of that
interface left was `Session`, specifically `Session::applyFilenameAsTags`.

By moving the adding of the filename tags into the `ITestCaseRegistry`
interface, we avoid storing the vector and make the initial test registration
faster.

The new code is ugly and shows a design/layering issue, but no worse than
the previous approach did.
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We used to store a full vector of "views" of the registered test infos,
so that it can be retrieved externally. However, the only user of that
interface left was `Session`, specifically `Session::applyFilenameAsTags`.

By moving the adding of the filename tags into the `ITestCaseRegistry`
interface, we avoid storing the vector and make the initial test registration
faster.

The new code is ugly and shows a design/layering issue, but no worse than
the previous approach did.
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<entry>
<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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<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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<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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<entry>
<title>Clarify bunch of default, out of line destructors</title>
<updated>2021-05-12T21:55:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2021-05-12T21:31:08+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Add standardized copyright notice + SPDX identifier to source files</title>
<updated>2020-08-30T13:43:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-08-30T13:43:45+00:00</published>
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This should also be done for test files, but that has lower priority.
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This should also be done for test files, but that has lower priority.
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<title>Standardize include guard patterns to FILE_NAME_EXTENSION_INCLUDED</title>
<updated>2020-08-30T12:09:27+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2020-08-29T18:48:32+00:00</published>
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This commit also strips the old copyright comment header in touched
files, as those will also be replaced with a more standardized and
machine-friendly version.
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This commit also strips the old copyright comment header in touched
files, as those will also be replaced with a more standardized and
machine-friendly version.
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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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