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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Cxxtest(Package):
+    """C++ unit test system."""
+
+    homepage = "https://cxxtest.com/"
+    url      = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/cxxtest/files/cxxtest/4.4/cxxtest-4.4.tar.gz/download"
+
+    version('4.4', sha256='1c154fef91c65dbf1cd4519af7ade70a61d85a923b6e0c0b007dc7f4895cf7d8')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        install_tree(self.stage.source_path, prefix)