Re: SuiteAttribute, RowTest and IterativeTest

Hi Kelly, 

SuiteAttribute is a hold-over from an older style of framework.
NUnit 1.x got the idea from the original JUnit. NUnit 2.x 
discouraged its use, since we added automatic suite creation
based on the namespace hierarchy.

Some people use it to create arbitrary combinations of tests
that can be loaded from the command line using the /fixture
option. In fact, this was the original and only purpose of
the /fixture option - we changed it so it would accept 
normal test fixtures and then namespaces.

Mostly, it's of historical interest but it did establish the
pattern that we only call static methods at test load time.

Charlie

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> Subject: [nunit-developer] SuiteAttribute, RowTest and IterativeTest
> 
> I just ran into SuiteAttribute... while prepping for an NUnit 
> demonstration... interesting.
> 
> Was this intended to solve problems similar to those solved 
> by RowTest and IterativeTest, or is it there for another 
> purpose, or just to do whatever?
> 
> What sorts of things have people done with the SuiteAttribute?
> 
> -Kelly
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