Re: Data Driven Addins

Hi Andreas 

> -----Original Message-----
> Charlie Poole schrieb:
> > Two levels of disussion here:
> > 1) How to make the extension work with NUnit as it now exists
> >   
> I think we don't need any changes for the current version.

Good to hear!
 
> > 2) How to make it work in 2.5 and later versions
> >
> > For 2.5, we can consider changes that add new extension points.
> >   
> I vote for new extension points to provide data sources for 
> parameterized tests.

Does this imply extensions on extensions? If so, I want to wait
for 3.0.

What I mean by "extensions on extensions" is that we have a 
certain kind of test case, which takes certain kinds of 
data sources. If all data sources work with all NUnit
test cases, then I think we can do it in 2.5 using a
flat list of extension points.

 
> > We can also provide alternate interfaces or extend existing 
> ones in a 
> > backward compatible way. I'd like to have specific suggestions 
> > however, because I still fail to see how the extension under 
> > discussion would help you: BuildFrom is called at a time 
> when the user 
> > fixture has not yet been constructed.
> >   
> I think for NUnit 2.4 and 2.5 IterativeTest (or a property 
> data source) should require the method or property providing 
> the data to be static.

That would sure make it easy.

Charlie

> 
> Andreas
> 
> 



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