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Learn Qt 5

You're reading from Learn Qt 5 Build modern, responsive cross-platform desktop applications with Qt, C++, and QML

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788478854

Length 346 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

C++

Tools

Qt

Concepts

Desktop Applications

Author (1):

Nicholas Sherriff

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Copyright and Credits

Packt Upsell

Contributors

Preface

1. Hello Qt

2. Project Structure FREE CHAPTER

3. User Interface

4. Style

5. Data

6. Unit Testing

7. Persistence

8. Web Requests

9. Wrapping Up

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Index

The default Qt approach

When we created our cm-tests project, Qt Creator helpfully created a ClientTests class for us to use a starting point, containing a single test named testCase1. Let's dive straight in and execute this default test and see what happens. We'll then take a look at the code and discuss what's going on.

Switch the Run output to cm-tests, and compile and run:

You won’t see any fancy applications spring to life this time, but you will see some text in the Application Output pane in Qt Creator:

********* Start testing of ClientTests *********
Config: Using QtTest library 5.10.0, Qt 5.10.0 (i386-little_endian-ilp32 shared (dynamic) debug build; by GCC 5.3.0)
PASS : ClientTests::initTestCase()
PASS : ClientTests::testCase1()
PASS : ClientTests::cleanupTestCase()
Totals: 3 passed, 0 failed, 0 skipped, 0 blacklisted, 0ms
********* Finished testing of ClientTests *********

We can see that three methods have been called, the second of which is our default unit test. The other two...

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Authors (1)

Nicholas Sherriff

Nicholas Sherriff

Nicholas Sherriff (Nick) spent the majority of his career at a major utility company in the UK, working predominantly on the Microsoft Windows platform with C#, ASP.NET, and SQL Server. While leading the native application development function there, he experimented with C++ before eventually discovering Qt, utilizing it on a major greenfield project serving several thousand users. He currently works for a communications recording software house. At home, Nick enjoys music, video games, and half-hearted calisthenics.

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