gtest (Google C++ Testing Framework) Google's framework for writing C++ tests on a variety of platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, Cygwin, Windows CE, and Symbian). Based on the xUnit architecture. Supports automatic test discovery, a rich set of assertions, user-defined assertions, death tests, fatal and non-fatal failures, value- and type-parameterized tests, various options for running the tests, and XML test report generation. Homepage: http://code.google.com/p/googletest IMPORTANT NOTE: This build script builds a legacy version. A section on the FAQ pages from the home site warns about the use of "make install" which is now deprecated on the latest version. However, you can still continue to do this if you know what you are doing. You can read more about this here: Why is it not recommended to install a pre-compiled copy of Google Test http://code.google.com/p/googletest/wiki/FAQ