[MonoDevelop] First go at unit tests

[Lluis Sanchez]

Hi,

Before starting to build this test infrastructure it would be good to
think about what are we going to test and how to do it.

About what: writing a test for Task is easy, but I feel it doesn't add
much value. I know it's just an example, but what I mean is that we need
to decide which classes are important to test. The current API is not
final. Some classes will change, some will desapear, some will be made
private, so writing tests for those would be a lose of time.

About how: MonoDevelop.Ide (and most of the MonoDevelop.* assemblies) is
not just a standalone dll, it's an add-in. It needs to be loaded by the
MonoDevelop runtime, and it needs to be properly initialized. Otherwise,
it is not guaranteed to work at all.

This could be a problem with NUnit. I know that NUnit can do per-class
test initialization, but we would need per-assembly initialization.

Another problem I see is that many of the classes in MonoDevelop.Gui are
designed to run in the GUI thread, and all in the same app domain. AFAIK
NUnit creates its own test threads and app domains, so we'd need to
think about how to handle this.

Lluis.

El mié, 30-11-2005 a las 20:04 +0100, Jacob Ilsø Christensen escribió:
> Hi.
> 
> The attached patch changes some Makefiles to accomplish testing of
> MonoDevelop.Ide.dll. In addition the file TaskTest.cs should be put
> here:
> 
> monodevelop/Core/src/MonoDevelop.Ide/Test/MonoDevelop.Ide.Tasks
> 
> Right now it is assumed that the nunit assemblies are in the GAC and
> that nunit-console.exe is in the path.
> 
> make test builds MonoDevelop.Ide.dll and MonoDevelop.Ide.Test.dll and
> then runs nunit-console.exe on MonoDevelop.Ide.Test.dll.
> 
> Is this the way we should go? Will someone try it out on their system
> to see if it works as expected?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Jacob
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