[Development] Supporting helper functions in auto tests by providing throwing Qt Test macros

[Giuseppe D'Angelo]

Il 03/04/19 17:06, Edward Welbourne ha scritto:
> There is a whole world of difference between "can only be used in" and
> "is not recommended for use outside".  The note is incorrect: if you use
> these macros inside a helper function, they do cause the test system to
> know the test has failed.  They merely don't cause the caller of the
> helper to return prematurely, unless the helper checks for whether they
> failed.

This note is our Get Out of Jail Free card, though. We can claim that 
any usage of test macros outside test functions was unsupported, hence 
we are allowed to break source compatibility for them (by turning them 
into exception throwers).

My 2 c,
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