MySQL 5.6 introduced GoogleTest C++ Testing Framework

MySQL 5.6 has introduced a new unit test framework beside the existing ones.
The googletest test framework is now part of the MySQL test framework for 5.6.
GoogleTest is a C++ Testing Framework that helps  write better C++ tests.

I realized that it was used when i tried to buid a MySQL release from sources on a fedora platform. I got the following error :

-- Googletest was not found. gtest-based unit tests will be disabled. 
You can run cmake . -DENABLE_DOWNLOADS=1 to automatically download and build required components from source.

I tried tu install the package through yum :

$ sudo yum install gtest

But it did not solve the issue. I had to run cmake to allow cmake to download the googletest sources so that it can be compiled within  the MySQL distribution.

cmake .  -DENABLE_DOWNLOADS=1
...
-- Successfully downloaded http://googletest.googlecode.com/files/gtest-1.5.0.tar.gz
 to /home/sfrezefo/Downloads/mysql/mysql-5.6.8-rc/source_downloads
...

and then as usual :

make
sudo make install

Tests are a very fondamental element of MySQL to validate the compiled software behave correctly.
It is also very fondamental for developpers, contributor or people building MySQL on a specific platform or OS.
This is the only way to validate that there is no regressions on a particular platform.
If you fix a bug or if you develop a new functionality it is fondamental that all the tests go well.
Of course for that to work nicely all test cases have to be fairly released when bugs are fixed.

For a full description of all the components of The MySQL Test Framework :
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysqltest/2.0/en/