Re: Addin Error Reporting Issue

Hi Daniel, 

> > Generally, if you want it to be non-runnable (yellow) do it at load 
> > time and if you want it to fail (red) do it at run time
> 
> I asked this several weeks ago and never saw and answer.  
> NUnit currently supports the attributes [Ignore] and 
> [Explicit].  The only difference I have seen thus far is that 
> [Explicit] allows you to run a test if you choose to do so 
> (It goes from Yellow to Red or Green), without removing the 
> attribute, and [Ignore] does not.  What is the reason for 
> having both?  Is there a reason why [Ignore] shouldn't be 
> either depricated or turned into an alias of [Explicit]?  At 
> the very least, for 3.0?

First, a correction... Explicit shows as grey, not yellow. It
was yellow in an early version, but that was a bug.

Ignore is treated by NUnit as a problem - that's why it shows
as yellow. Explicit is not treated as a problem. Some people,
I suspect, use Explicit to give the effect of an Ignore that
never shows up on the test reports, but I don't think that's
a good practice.

The idea of Ignore is that you are temporarily stopping the
running of a test for some reason - like it crashes the
whole run - but you will be solving the problem in a short
time. Teams I work with get a daily list of ignored tests
from the nightly run and it's supposed to be short or empty
and any igored tests should not stay there long.

An Explicit test is one that is not ever intended to be part
of the regular continuous or nightly test runs. Therefore,
NUnit silently passes over them without reporting anything
wrong at all.

So while some people may use them in similar ways, they are
intended for different purposes and NUnit therefore reports 
them differently.

That said, I think we do need to look at the options for
various RunStates and ResultStates for tests in 3.0.

Charlie
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