title: GoogleTest: Accessing the Environment from a Test
body: <p>I'm trying out gtest for C++ (Google's unit testing framework), and I've created a ::testing::Environment subclass to initialize and keep track of some things that I need for most of my tests (and don't want to setup more than once).</p>
  
  <p>My question is: How do I actually access the contents of the Environment object? I guess I could theoretically save the Environment in a global variable in my test project, but is there a better way?</p>
  
  <p>I'm trying to make tests for some already existing (very tangled) stuff, so the setup is pretty heavy.</p>