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Criterion
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Snaipe / Criterion

Criterion

A cross-platform C and C++ unit testing framework for the 21st century

4Distinct people
7Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
2.3KGitHub stars
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What it is

A cross-platform C and C++ unit testing framework for the 21st century

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year7 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-02-11 15:53:02 UTC to 2023-12-11 22:40:57 UTC.

012342015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 3 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2023

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC431
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220

What Hacker News says

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Warwolt·Dec 11, 2023Submission

Show HN: RK Test, a Google Test style library written in C99

I really like Google Test, but am planning on doing some embedded development in C, where I sometimes find it awkward to test C code using a C++ library. Therefore, I wrote a small unit test library closely mimicking Google Test. It consists of two source files, "rktest.c" and "rktest.h", and is about 1k lines of code and written in C99. It uses a trick for self registering tests by placing pointers to the unit test functions into a known place in program memory, that I first learned about from https://github.com/christophercrouzet/rexo/ and https://github.com/Snaipe/Criterion/.
2 points · Open discussion
Developer here. If you have any suggestion/criticism on the project, I'd be happy to know. What this brings on the table compared to other frameworks is a very simple way to write tests, while giving the programmer enough liberty to do what he wants. Criterion achieves that by implementing a xUnit structure with automatic test registration using a declarative syntax -- which means you can be very expressive with the way you declare your tests and suite in a few lines of code. The rest is handled by criterion itself and the default main it provides. Samples: https://github.com/Snaipe/Criterion/blob/bleeding/samples Documentation: http://criterion.readthedocs.org/en/latest/
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