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 # CoTest
 
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+## Intro
+
+Cotest is an extension of Google Test (including GMock) which adds direct and fully integrated support for coroutines:
+ - as contexts within which to run checking code, including checking of mock calls,
+ - and to execute the code under test.
+
+Cotest allows for a linear test case layout, in which the test coroutine launches the code under test, and then accepts and returns mock calls in a single sequence 
+of C++ statements. Cotest can do this without needing to set up expectation objects ahead of starting the test. The user directly implements the test coroutine 
+and can insert arbitrary logic to decide how to respond to mock calls and results from code under test, without needing to split the code into multiple lambda actions.
+
+Cotest supports multiple test coroutines: these will "see" mock calls with a decreasing priority, interleaved with GMock expectations as required.
+Cotest permits multiple overlapping launches of code under test: in the coroutine model there is no freely concurrent execution, 
+but a test coroutine can control the order in which overlapping mock calls return.
+ 
+Cotest supports matching on both the exterior of the coroutine (similar to GMock expectations but with additional wildcard categories) and the interior 
+(a test coroutine can "drop" a mock call and GMock's matching search will continue). Cotest actions are simply coded directly into the coroutine body by the user. 
+Cardinality is inferred from the execution state of the coroutine, plus APIs for retiring and becoming satisfied.
+  
+This project is a fork of Google Test, and changes to gtest/gmock source code have been kept minimal. 
+
+## To build and run the tests
+
+From repo top level:
+```
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake -Dcoro_build_tests=ON -Dgtest_build_tests=ON -Dgtest_build_samples=ON -Dgmock_build_tests=ON -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug -DGOOGLETEST_VERSION=0 -DCOROUTINES_VERSION=0 ../
+make
+ctest
+```
+This will run the googletest tests as well as the cotest tests. Use `-R ^co` for just the cotest tests.