Why are my rostests giving me a std::bad_alloc error?

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I'm porting my ROS code from Indigo on Ubuntu 14.04 to using the newer ROS Kinetic on Ubuntu 16.04. What I've noticed is that, in one particular test, I will occasionally get a std::bad_alloc exception thrown:

C++ exception with description "std::bad_alloc" thrown in the test fixture's constructor

Behaviour

• Error only occurs when there are more than one TEST_F() functions.

• Console output stops displaying after first TEST_F() is run.

Code

class TransitionClientTest : public ::testing::Test
{
public:
  void SetUp()
  {
    query_client_.Initialize(node_handle_);
  }

private:
  ros::NodeHandle node_handle_
  QueryClientType query_client_;
};

TEST_F(TransitionClientTest, TestQuery)
{
  ROS_INFO("TestQuery running");
  EXPECT_EQ(query_client_.Query(), 1);
}

TEST_F(TransitionClientTest, TestPort)
{
  ROS_INFO("TestPort running");  // Won't get displayed
  EXPECT_EQ(query_client_.Port(), 99);
}

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
  ros::init(argc, argv, "TransitionClientTest");
  testing::InitGoogleTest(&argc, argv);
  int result = RUN_ALL_TESTS();
  return result;
}

The TestPort test will often cause a std::bad_alloc error. If it doesn't, then it will not display the ROS_INFO statement.

The test is defined in my CMakeLists in a add_rostest_gtest() call.