Re: Updates to NUnit 2.5

Checked in a VS2008 build and blogged about it here:
http://nunit.org/blogs/?p=61

Charlie 

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> Behalf Of Charlie Poole
> Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 9:29 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [nunit-developer] Updates to NUnit 2.5
> 
> More updates checked into CVS. All of this will be documented 
> for the release, but some of you may want an early heads-up, 
> especially if you are working on addins.
> 
> EXTENSIBILITY
> 
> The ParameterProviders extension point has been renamed to 
> TestCaseProviders. The interface that extensions must 
> implement is now ITestCaseProvider. Here's the definition:
> 
>     public interface ITestCaseProvider
>     {
>         bool HasTestCasesFor(MethodInfo method);
>         IEnumerable GetTestCasesFor(MethodInfo method);
>     }
> 
> This is essentially the same as the IParameterProvider 
> interface in the first two alphas.
> 
> BUILT-IN PARAMETERIZED TESTS
> 
> NUnit currently has two built-in providers:
> TestCaseParameterProvider for TestCaseAttribute and 
> TestCaseFactoryProvider for FactoryAttribute.
> 
> TestCaseParameterProvider will perform a number of 
> conversions in order to make the provided argument compatible 
> with method call.
> 
> TestCaseFactoryProvider can work with properties, methods and 
> fields that implement IEnumerable. For static cases, use of 
> an array is the simplest approach. Either static or instance 
> members may be used. For methods takin a single ValueType 
> argument, the enumerator may return the bare argument rather 
> than an array with one member.
> 
> All of the above work at load time. For dynamic test cases, 
> provided at the instance of executin the test and possibly 
> varying from run to run, I plan to add DynamicTest and 
> DynamicTestCaseProvider.
> 
> OTHER STUFF
> 
> The RequiredAddinAttribute may be placed on the assembly, on 
> a class or on a method. If the named addin is not loaded, the 
> test or suite is NotRunnable and shows up as red in the Gui.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
> > Charlie Poole
> > Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:14 PM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [nunit-developer] Updates to NUnit 2.5
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Now that I'm back home, I can properly upload a number of changes I 
> > made on my laptop while travelling.
> > 
> > So far, I have made the following changes:
> > 
> > 1. The release is now 2.5 Alpha 3.
> > 
> > 2. I have changed DataSourceAttribute to FactoryAttribute 
> and it may 
> > now appear on a property, field or method. Any of these may 
> be either 
> > static or instance members.
> > 
> > 3. IParameterProvider.GetParametersFor(MethodInfo method) 
> now returns 
> > IEnumerable rather than IList.
> > 
> > 4. The Test abstract class now has default implementations 
> for several 
> > properties that were previously abstract. One of the
> > Run() overloads has been removed.
> > 
> > I'll post further as more changes are made.
> > 
> > Charlie
> > 
> > 
> > 
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