add_rostest(.. DEPENDECIES..) / catkin tools build/test issues

[Naveed Usmani]

I experienced that If I changed my test and ran tests (with catkin tools) it did not build my test and ran with the previous one. But If I do catkin b and then catkin run_tests, that works as expected ( builds the test executable and run against it). Is this normal?

Other way to solve was to add depencency to executable in add_rostest eg:
from add_rostest(catch_test.test) to add_rostest(catch_test.test DEPEDENCIES catch_test)
Is this the expected behavior?

If adding DEPENDECIES tag is recommended, would it be a good idea to include that within catch_add_rostest_node (maybe rename to catch_add_rostest) cmake function? (like gtest)

[Max Schwarz]

Thanks for the report, this is indeed a bug (or at least confusing). I have a fix in #9, which does the same as rostest does for the gtest-based tests: introduce a dependency from the generic tests target to the new node.

It works on my local packages. If it's not too much trouble, could you please confirm #9 also fixes the problem on your side?

[Naveed Usmani]

Tested #9 and that indeed solves the issue.

[Max Schwarz]

Thanks for the confirmation!