 Link | GoogleTest | Boost Test | CppUnit | VSCppUnit | Catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website | google.com/... | boost.org/... | launchpad.net/... | microsoft.com/... | github.com/... |
| Professionally developed | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Maintained | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
| XML Output | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes .trx output | |
| Death tests | Yes | - | No | No | |
| Test fixtures | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Automated registration of tests | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Disable tests | Yes | - NCBI extension has support for this | No | Yes | |
| Rich set of built-in asserts | Yes | - | - Somewhat | - | |
| Custom asserts | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Non-fatal assertions | Yes EXPECT_* | Yes | No | No | |
| Crash handling | Yes Windows SEH | - ? | No Custom | Yes Windows SEH | |
| GUI Runner | Yes gtest-gbar | - QxRunner? | Yes QxCppUnit | Yes VS integrated | No |
| Mock framework | Yes GoogleMock | - 3rd party | - 3rd party | - 3rd party | |
| Latest version | 04/2011 | 2007 | 11/2009 | 2012 | 2016-06-09: v1.5.6 |
| License | New BSD license | Boost License | GNU LGPL v3 | Microsoft Proprietary |