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Testing C API (how to go about it)
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Currently most of the tests in source/tests rely on Python scripts, this is fine, but there are areas of our C api we probably wont expose to python and we still want to be able to test them.

eg: https://developer.blender.org/diffusion/B/browse/master/source/blender/blenlib/BLI_path_util.h

An example of where testing would be useful is for checking UNC paths, (ms-windows \\network\paths). don't break other use cases when the patch is applied. [0].

This task is to evaluate how best to manage testing C API (Mostly BLI and BKE functions)

[0] https://developer.blender.org/D298

Note, exactly how C/C++ tests are compiled and setup should be done with some care, since it should work across many different modules.

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Campbell Barton (campbellbarton) created this task.Mar 27 2014, 5:03 AM
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Note that Sergey and Campbell have made a start at this using the gtest (GoogleTest) testing framework that was already being used in Blender to for unit tests in the external libmv.

Initial tests in the gtest-testing branch, in source/tests/blenlib_tests

Aaron Carlisle (Blendify) closed this task as Resolved.Feb 13 2020, 1:34 AM
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