[Mono-devel-list] NUnit Regression test suites.

[Charlie Poole]

Hi All,

I'm back to monitoring this list - at least for messages that contain
"nunit" - and
I browsed the entire thread to try to understand the problem you're
trying to deal
with.

For completeness, I'll list the ways to have a test not run in NUnit:
1)  Ignore it with IgnoreAttribute
2)  Ignore it at runtime with Assert.Ignore
3)  Use CategoryAttribute and exclude the category
4)  Mark it with the ExplicitAttribute
5)  Mark it with the PlatformAttribute (2.2.1 and later, I believe)
6)  Just don't run it - either put it in a separate assembly or don't
select the
     namespace it lives in to be run.
7)  Use a filter.

Items 1 and 2 turn the test yellow, the others don't. Items 3 and 4 can
be
overridden in the gui - I don't know about the gtk gui though - without
making
any changes to the code. Item 5 is for things you _never_ want to run
under
a certain platform, not for bugs you intend to fix. Item 6 seems like a
lot
of trouble if you are intending to fix something. Item 7 would be
perfect, if
we exposed a way for you to do it, but we don't. Internally, we use a
filter
to implement categories but it's intended to be generic... we just
aren't
there yet.

So it sounds as if categories are the thing for you right now... maybe
with
some use of Platform if you have things that don't work on .NET or that
you never intend to make work on Mono.

However, I'm not clear about why you're moving the tests elsewhere while
they are not being run. Why not just leave them in place?

Charlie