google/googletest
GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
Ranks #1 among Testing repositories tracked this week, and #1 over the last 30 days; #253 of 2,502 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 10%).
1 release in the last 90 days, the latest 54 days ago, with 389 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #87 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 11, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a C++ testing and mocking framework based on the xUnit architecture for writing and running unit tests.
- Enables automatic test discovery and offers rich assertion types, supporting both value- and type-parameterized tests for flexible testing scenarios.
- Use for verifying C++ code correctness with automated unit tests in projects requiring robust error handling validation.
- Use for developing and testing C++ libraries that need type-parameterized tests to ensure compatibility across multiple data types.
- Use for integrating with continuous integration pipelines to run tests in parallel and improve testing efficiency in large codebases.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
BSD 3-Clause
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
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From the README
Our documentation is now live on GitHub Pages at https://google.github.io/googletest/. We recommend browsing the documentation on GitHub Pages rather than directly in the repository.
Release 1.17.0 is now available.
The 1.17.x branch requires at least C++17.
We use Google's internal systems for continuous integration.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+799 stars over 81 days across 14 snapshot days; best day +141 on Aug 28.
Forks
10.9K+77
Open issues
520-36
Compared with peers in Testing
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Sep 27, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| miuuyy/codex-chatgpt-web | 14.2K | +1.4K | 75 | today |
| microsoft/playwright | 97.8K | +0 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| google/googletest | 39.6K | +0 | 62 | 54 days ago |
| grafana/k6 | 31.9K | +0 | 75 | 3 days ago |
| feder-cr/invisible_playwright_mcp | 31.7K | +0 | 75 | 3 days ago |
| jo-inc/camofox-browser | 11.4K | +0 | 60 | 1 day ago |
| Category median | 31.7K | +0 | 75 | — |
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