QtTest and asserts

[doberkofler]

Assert, by definition, kills your app. If you want an assert that will not kill your app but instead will return an error, it will not be an assert anymore.

I agree! My "assert" would log an error, show the error and then abort.

Asserts don't throw exceptions. They call abort(). So there is nothing to "intercept". Even as the manual for abort says - "abort() does not return". If you want, just throw an exception instead of asserting and you'll be able to catch that in QtTestLib.

Sorry for the misunderstanding, but I used the term exception in a generally and did not specifically refer to the C++ exception handling. More precisely put, I was unsure if QtTest might intercept the assert.

Intercepting my own assert handling is actually what I have done now and it seems to give me expected results. QtTets can actually catch C++ exception thrown by the test methods.