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Software Architecture with C++

By : Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski
Book Image

Software Architecture with C++

By: Adrian Ostrowski, Piotr Gaczkowski

Overview of this book

Software architecture refers to the high-level design of complex applications. It is evolving just like the languages we use, but there are architectural concepts and patterns that you can learn to write high-performance apps in a high-level language without sacrificing readability and maintainability. If you're working with modern C++, this practical guide will help you put your knowledge to work and design distributed, large-scale apps. You'll start by getting up to speed with architectural concepts, including established patterns and rising trends, then move on to understanding what software architecture actually is and start exploring its components. Next, you'll discover the design concepts involved in application architecture and the patterns in software development, before going on to learn how to build, package, integrate, and deploy your components. In the concluding chapters, you'll explore different architectural qualities, such as maintainability, reusability, testability, performance, scalability, and security. Finally, you will get an overview of distributed systems, such as service-oriented architecture, microservices, and cloud-native, and understand how to apply them in application development. By the end of this book, you'll be able to build distributed services using modern C++ and associated tools to deliver solutions as per your clients' requirements.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
1
Section 1: Concepts and Components of Software Architecture
5
Section 2: The Design and Development of C++ Software
6
Architectural and System Design
10
Section 3: Architectural Quality Attributes
15
Section 4: Cloud-Native Design Principles
21
About Packt

Introducing testing frameworks

As for the frameworks, the current de facto standard is Google's GTest. Together with its counterpart GMock, they form a small suite of tools that allow you to follow the best practices of testing in C++.

Other popular alternatives to GTest/GMock duo are Catch2, CppUnit, and Doctest. CppUnit has been available for a long time, but its lack of recent releases means we don't recommend it for fresh projects. Both Catch2 and Doctest support the modern C++ standards  in particular, C++14, C++17, and C++20.

To compare these testing frameworks, we will use the same codebase that we want to test. Using it as a basis, we will then implement tests in each of the frameworks.