This project is an independent addition for [https://code.google.com/p/googletest/googletest].

Google Test is an excellent xUnit style c++ unit testing framework. It is highly recommended. One (minor) drawback of Google Test is it's text based UI, and this project attempts to help.

This project is a standalone .Net 2.0 executable which displays a UI for a Google Test based harness with the following elements:

• A progress bar which is either green or red, according to test success
• A list of all failures and their details upon click

The UI saves a history of several runs (configurable), allows command line parameters to be passed to the test program and gives convenient access to the following google test features:

• filtering tests
• forcing execution of disabled tests
• shuffling tests

The project runs on both Windows and Linux (under Mono). Here are some Screen Shots.

• Download the ZIP
• Open it somewhere other than "Program Files"

If you insist on "Program Files", then you will need to run this with Administrative rights.

See Version History

I didn't want to bother writing several plug-in's. Actually I didn't even want to write one. I find that a standalone app that I run constantly as I code is very convenient, and I am not limited to VS 2005/2008/2010, Eclipse, etc.

• Fire up your IDE
• Run the app (called "Guitar" - you can work out the acronym)
• In app main dialog select your test executable
• Press "Go" whenever your tests/code compile (TDDers, note the order ;-) )

Note 1: the test executable should (of course) be a google test executable. The application parses google test stdout.

Note 2:The application remembers the last executable run between sessions.

You are probably on an older VS version. Don't worry - project is dead simple. Just roll up your own and add all files.

Enjoy.

Omri.