The code for this recipe is available at https://github.com/dev-cafe/cmake-cookbook/tree/v1.0/chapter-07/recipe-01 and has a C++ example. The recipe is valid with CMake version 3.5 (and higher) and has been tested on GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.
In any programming language, functions allow us to abstract (hide) details and avoid code repetition, and CMake is no exception. In this recipe, we will discuss macros and functions as an example, and we will introduce a macro to make it more convenient for us to define tests and set the ordering of tests. Instead of calling add_test and set_tests_properties to define each set and to set the expected COST of each test (Chapter 4, Creating and Running Tests, Recipe 8, Running tests in parallel), our goal is to define a macro that will be able to take care of both in one go.
