Testing

Polybar uses googletest <https://google.github.io/googletest/>_ as its testing and mocking framework. Tests live in the tests/ directory; they can be enabled during cmake with -DBUILD_TESTS=ON and compiled with make all_unit_tests.

Each test gets its own executable in build/tests, which can be executed to run a specific test.

Running all tests is preferably done with the following command:

.. code-block:: shell

make check

This runs all available tests and prints the output in color for failed tests only.

Adding New Tests

All new tests need to be added to the tests/CMakeLists.txt file. Have a look at the other unit tests in tests/unit_tests to see how to write tests for your code.