c-testing

https://github.com/standardloop/c-testing

About

Repo for testing library for C.

Example

Program

#include <standardloop/testing.h>

int main(void)
{
    TestingInit();
    TestCaseVerify(true, "will pass", 1 == 1);
    TestCaseVerify(true, "will fail", 1 == 0);
    TestCaseVerify(false, "will not run", 1 == 0);
    TestingTearDown();
}

Output

[2026-09-18 22:59:23] Starting test run.....
Test: "will fail" Failed! (1 == 0) in testing.test.c at line 7
Test: "will not run" Skipped! (1 == 0) in testing.test.c at line 8
--------results--------
passed:   1
failed:   1
skipped:  1
-----------------------
[2026-09-18 22:59:23] Done!

Running

This repo uses task.

Please run the default task to see all the avaiable tasks

Available Tasks

task: Available tasks for this project:
* default
* dependencies
* release
* test:build
* test:run
* test:build-sanitize
* test:run-sanitize
* clean
* fmt
* docs
* test:leaks            Run macOS leaks on the test program.

Building

$ task test:build
$ ./test
$ task test:build-sanitize
$ ./test-sanitize

Dependencies

Using mise

$ mise install
$ eval "$(mise activate bash)"
# when done
$ mise deactivate
$ mise prune
$ mise cache clean

Using brew and npm

$ brew install \
    prek \
    go-task \
    doxygen

$ npm install moxygen -g

Releasing

Releases are handled via GitHub Actions.

Docs

Docs are generated a first generated with doxygen as xml and then moxygen reads the xml to output markdown in the docs/ folder.

This repo uses reusable tasks from https://github.com/standardloop/taskfiles/

Precommit

This repo uses prek.

Please run prek install.