Testing abnormal exit of programs

Usage
1

I want to test with ctest, that an executable fails (e.g. with abort()).

How can i specify this in ctest?
How can I set ctestto exlicitly exprect an abort (or SEGV or …)?

:~/cmake_test/Build$ ninja && ctest
[4/4] Linking CXX executable normal
Test project /home/xxx/cmake_test/Build
    Start 1: normal
1/2 Test #1: normal ...........................   Passed    0.00 sec
    Start 2: abort
2/2 Test #2: abort ............................Child aborted***Exception:   0.00 sec

50% tests passed, 1 tests failed out of 2

Total Test time (real) =   0.00 sec

The following tests FAILED:
          2 - abort (Child aborted)
Errors while running CTest

Example:
CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)
project(cmake_test)

enable_testing()

add_executable(normal normal.cpp)
add_executable(abort abort.cpp)

add_test(NAME normal COMMAND normal)
add_test(NAME abort COMMAND abort)
set_tests_properties(abort PROPERTIES WILL_FAIL True) # does not work on abort()

normal.cpp

int main()
{
    return 0;
}

abort.cpp

#include <cstdlib>

int main()
{
    abort();
    return 0;
}
2

You can expect failure, but that’s really about it; not really any specific kind of failure. For things like this, a wrapper script that does the detection and translation into a normal exit (say, bash or PowerShell) would be best I think.