Testing C++ program with Testing classes over normally used classes

This will probably be a bot of a waffly question but ill try my best.

I have a simple c++ program that i need to build testing for. 开发者_高级运维 I have 2 Classes i use besides the one i actually am using, these are called WebServer and BusinessLogicLayer.

To test my own code i have made my own versions of these classes that feed dummy data to my class to test it functionality.

I need to know a way of somehow, via a makefile for instance, how to tell the source code to use the test classes over the normally used classes. The test classes are in a different "tester" c++ file, and the tester c++ file also has its own header file.

Regards

Paul

P.S. This is probably a badly worded question, but i dont know any better way to put my question.

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You can define abstract base classes that declare the public interfaces for your components, then wire the objects together at runtime (in main() or something else fairly high up in the food chain). In testing, you simply wire up different objects.

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To build debug and release versions of a program with source code in directories ${SRC_DIR_1} and ${SRC_DIR_2}:

CXX      := g++
CPPFLAGS  = ...
CXXFLAGS  = ...

SRC_DIR_1 := ...
SRC_DIR_2 := ...

ifeq (${debug},1)
  BIN_DIR  := ./obj_debug
  CXXFLAGS += -g
else
  BIN_DIR  := ./obj_release
  CXXFLAGS += -DNDEBUG
endif

# Make sure that the directory exists.
TEMP := ${shell test -d ${BIN_DIR} || mkdir ${BIN_DIR}}

# Tell make to search each directory
VPATH := ${SRC_DIR_1}:${SRC_DIR_2}

# You can modify this to use a suffix other than .cc
${BIN_DIR}/%.o : %.cc
    ${CXX} ${CPPFLAGS} ${CXXFLAGS} -c $< -o $@

# Build the requested version of the program.
ifeq (${debug},1)
  default: program_name_debug
else
  default: program_name
endif

tidy::
    @${RM} -r ./obj_*

In the Project Configuration dialog, specify the target name as "program_name, program_name_debug". (Replace program_name with the name of your program.)

To build the program, invoke "make debug=X" with X replaced by either 0 or 1.

Reference

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Why does your tester code have a header file of its own? Your test code should have the same interface as the code it emulates, and using the same header file prevents a lot of headaches.

Anyway, this will work:

real_program: WebServer.o BusinessLogicLayer.o

test_program: tester.o

real_program test_program: MyClass.o OtherThings.o
    $(LINK) $^ -o $@