Test frameworks use some pretty crazy tricks to produce a pleasant syntax with good error debugging messages. For an example, see CATCH: https://github.com/phil

Test frameworks use some pretty crazy tricks to produce a pleasant syntax with good error debugging messages. For an example, see CATCH: https://github.com/philsquared/Catch/wiki https://github.com/philsquared/Catch/wiki I'd imagine this sort of stuff is much harder to port across systems than regular production code.