google/googletest
GoogleTest - Google Testing and Mocking Framework
About the project
GoogleTest is a C++ testing and mocking framework based on the xUnit architecture. It automatically discovers and runs tests, offers a rich set of assertions, and supports parameterized and death tests.
Useful for
- Write unit tests for a C++ library with automatic test discovery
- Create mocks for dependencies using GoogleMock
- Run parameterized tests with different input values
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Why it’s trending
- 8 stars today.
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 39,522
- Stars in a day
- 8
- Forks
- 10,893
- Issues and pull requests
- 4,655
- Watchers
- 1,269
- Language
- C++
- License
- BSD-3-Clause
- Latest release
- v1.18.0 · August 10, 2026
- Created
- July 28, 2015
- Last push
- September 10, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- September 13, 2026GitHub Trending C++ today: #5, +6 stars
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