In this directory I will store the testcases for KBruch. A file containing a test suite for a "class" has the following file name: "class"_test.cpp In this file there is a class (struct) named "class"_test_suite and the class containing the test cases. This class is called "class"_test. Every member function of the original class is tested in a seperated member function of the "class"_test class. Those functions are named "class"_test::test_"memberFunction"() {...} Before you can compile it, you have to make symlinks from the source directory to this directory. The simplest way is to use the following bash script: -----SNIP----- #!/bin/bash # save the current directory # current=`pwd` # delete all symbolic links # rm `find . -type l` # now go the source directory # cd ../src echo "Createing symlinks to the source files..." # make a symlink from every *.cpp file to this directory # for a in `ls *.cpp` do ln -s ../src/$a ../testcases/$a done # make a symlink from every *.h file to this directory # for a in `ls *.h` do ln -s ../src/$a ../testcases/$a done # and back to the testcases directory # cd $current -----SNIP----- And you need the boost library installed. I think this will be the hardest thing. You can get boost from http://www.boost.org/ If you want to compile the whole tests not under Linux using gcc, you maybe have to edit the Makefile.am in this directory to correctly link against libboost_unit_test_framework-YOURCOMPILER. Edit the following line in Makefile.am: kbruch_test_LDADD = -lboost_unit_test_framework-gcc $(LIB_KDEUI) I hope someone finds a portable way to do this Makefile stuff. Please fix it, I'm not a Automake/Autoconf guru! You can compile the test program by typing: make check If you were able to compile it, you can execute the test case program kbruch_test from within this directory. I hope this helps a little bit. Sebastian Stein