Creating and Executing Unit Tests

Table of Contents

• Unit Testing Using TAP
• Unit Testing Using the Google Test Framework
• Unit Tests Added to Main Test Runs

Storage engines and plugins can have unit tests to test their components. The top-level Makefile target test-unit runs all unit tests: It scans the storage engine and plugin directories, recursively, and executes all executable files having a name that ends with -t.

The following sections describe MySQL unit testing using TAP and the Google Test framework.