C# FIT fixture loading errors
Daniel Gackle <[email protected]> Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:37:35 -0700
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.programming.tools.fit.devel |
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I recently encountered problems involving assembly loading and versioning while setting up C# FIT on a new project. Has anyone else been experiencing this? While such issues are alas not uncommon in a .NET program (especially when reflection is involved), I do believe that C# FIT can be improved in the way it handles these errors. Currently, C# FIT distinguishes between two failures to load a test fixture: Error 1: Your fixture was not found in any of the assemblies searched. Error 2: Your fixture was loaded, but it doesn't inherit from fit.Fixture, so FIT can't use it. These errors are handled well, but the Error 2 message is also displayed in 3 additional cases where it doesn't apply: Error 3: Your fixture was compiled against a different version of FIT than the test runner currently executing. Error 4: Your fixture was built using a different version of the .NET framework than the FIT assemblies you are trying to use. Error 5: Your fixture is located in a directory from which .NET will not allow you to use them. (FIT is finding and loading the right assembly, but .NET is returning null when you ask it to instantiate a fixture.) My question for Jim Shore (and anyone else who's interested): would you like to collaborate on testing for these conditions? I think this may be more than a trivial patch. In particular, I don't fully understand Error 5 but I think I can reproduce one form of it. - Daniel