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<title>catch3/src/catch2/internal/catch_test_case_tracker.cpp, 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>Fix typos in comments</title>
<updated>2026-09-14T11:23:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>anarch</name>
</author>
<published>2026-09-13T04:39:01+00:00</published>
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Three misspellings in comments: "reuired" -&gt; "required",
"ambigous" -&gt; "ambiguous", "neccessarily" -&gt; "necessarily".

Per docs/contributing.md, the amalgamated files under extras/ are left
untouched even though they carry the same typos.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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Three misspellings in comments: "reuired" -&gt; "required",
"ambigous" -&gt; "ambiguous", "neccessarily" -&gt; "necessarily".

Per docs/contributing.md, the amalgamated files under extras/ are left
untouched even though they carry the same typos.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Fix --warn InfiniteGenerators firing even if the generator was filtered</title>
<updated>2026-07-07T12:09:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-07-07T12:09:04+00:00</published>
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<title>Support filtering on both sections and generators (#3069)</title>
<updated>2026-02-15T19:27:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2026-02-15T19:27:15+00:00</published>
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Not being able to filter generators to specific element has been regularly
causing problems. It was possible to use a dynamic section to run tests
for specific element in a generator, at least if the element had a nice
string representation, but the test case would still run once per element
in the generator.

With this change, it is possible to have the generator return only one
specific element, and do so based on the index, rather than the string
representation of the element. This enables simple debugging of tests
that fail for specific generator element.
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Not being able to filter generators to specific element has been regularly
causing problems. It was possible to use a dynamic section to run tests
for specific element in a generator, at least if the element had a nice
string representation, but the test case would still run once per element
in the generator.

With this change, it is possible to have the generator return only one
specific element, and do so based on the index, rather than the string
representation of the element. This enables simple debugging of tests
that fail for specific generator element.
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<entry>
<title>Fix section filtering to make sense</title>
<updated>2025-10-16T07:16:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2025-10-14T20:14:47+00:00</published>
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Specifically, this commit makes the `-c`/`--section` parameter
strictly ordered and hierarchical, unlike how it behaved before,
which was a huge mess -- see #3038 for details.

Closes #3038
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Specifically, this commit makes the `-c`/`--section` parameter
strictly ordered and hierarchical, unlike how it behaved before,
which was a huge mess -- see #3038 for details.

Closes #3038
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<entry>
<title>Early evaluate line loc in NameAndLoc::operator==</title>
<updated>2023-02-20T14:19:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-02-20T09:22:37+00:00</published>
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I do not know if checking the tracker name or the tracker's file
part of the location first would provide better results, but
in the common case, the line part of the location check should be
rather unique, because different `SECTION`s will have different
source lines where they are defined.

I also propagated this same check into `ITracker::findChild`,
because this significantly improves performance of section tracking
in Debug builds -&gt; 10% in macro benchmark heavily focused on section
tracking. In Release build there is usually no difference, because
the inliner will inline `NameAndLoc::operator==` into `findChild`,
and then eliminate the redundant check. (If the inliner decides
against, then this still improves the performance on average).
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I do not know if checking the tracker name or the tracker's file
part of the location first would provide better results, but
in the common case, the line part of the location check should be
rather unique, because different `SECTION`s will have different
source lines where they are defined.

I also propagated this same check into `ITracker::findChild`,
because this significantly improves performance of section tracking
in Debug builds -&gt; 10% in macro benchmark heavily focused on section
tracking. In Release build there is usually no difference, because
the inliner will inline `NameAndLoc::operator==` into `findChild`,
and then eliminate the redundant check. (If the inliner decides
against, then this still improves the performance on average).
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<entry>
<title>Avoid copying NameAndLocationRef when passed as argument</title>
<updated>2023-02-20T14:17:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-02-19T22:53:34+00:00</published>
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`NameAndLocationRef` is pretty large type, so even in release build,
it is unlikely to be passed in registers. In addition to the fact
that some platforms currently do not allow passing even small types
in register (Windows ABI!!), it is better to pass it as a ref,
effectively passing around a pointer.
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`NameAndLocationRef` is pretty large type, so even in release build,
it is unlikely to be passed in registers. In addition to the fact
that some platforms currently do not allow passing even small types
in register (Windows ABI!!), it is better to pass it as a ref,
effectively passing around a pointer.
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<entry>
<title>Inline some non-virtual functions in ITracker and TrackerContext</title>
<updated>2023-02-20T14:02:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-02-20T14:02:41+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Avoid allocating trimmed name for SectionTracker</title>
<updated>2023-02-20T13:32:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-02-19T23:12:54+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>Remove unused TrackerContext::endRun function</title>
<updated>2023-02-20T13:32:10+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Martin Hořeňovský</name>
</author>
<published>2023-02-19T18:45:40+00:00</published>
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