Tester – String Members

The next items in the Tester class changed were the string members, the program name, test file name, and error message members, which were changed to std::stringg.  The access function for the error message member was also changed to return a std::string.  There were two considerations with these changes.

The first consideration was the issue of [language] translations, which were used with various strings for generating error messages.  I decided for the testing part of the code, that translations are not necessary.  The testing code is for testing the internals of the application and any output does not need to be internationalized.  Therefore, translations (calls to the tr() function returning QStrings) will be completely removed from the Tester class, which started with these error messages.

The second consideration was the QFileInfo class, which is used to extract the file name from a file name path.  There is no equivalent functionality in the standard library.  It is not appropriate to create a similar function when it already exists.  The Boost C++ library does have equivalent functionality, but there is no reason to add another dependent library when Qt is already present and provides the functionality.

Since the goal is to remove all Qt dependencies from the Tester class, a base file name static function was added to the Command Line class (which functions of the Tester class already call; and is the owner of the Tester class instance).  This function takes a std::string file path input and returns a std::string base file name using QFileInfo.  It is expected that the Command Line class will continue to use Qt since it interfaces with the main application.

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