[jira] [Created] (ARROW-3254) [C++] Add option to ADD_ARROW_TEST to compose a test executable from multiple .cc files containing unit tests

["Wes McKinney (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Wes McKinney created ARROW-3254:
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             Summary: [C++] Add option to ADD_ARROW_TEST to compose a test executable from multiple .cc files containing unit tests
                 Key: ARROW-3254
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ARROW-3254
             Project: Apache Arrow
          Issue Type: Improvement
          Components: C++
            Reporter: Wes McKinney
             Fix For: 0.12.0


Currently there is a 1-1 correspondence between a .cc file containing unit tests to a test executable. There's good reasons (like readability, code organization) to split up a large test suite among many files. But there are downsides:

* Linking test executables is slow, especially on Windows
* Test executables take up quite a bit of space (the debug/ directory on Linux after a full build is ~1GB)

I suggest enabling ADD_ARROW_TEST to accept a list of files which will be build together into a single test. This will allow us to combine a number of our unit tests and save time and space



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