Re: Recent 2.5 Changes

BTW, I updated the roadmap at http://nunit.org/?p=roadmap - it had 
gotten seriously out of date.

Charlie

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> Subject: [nunit-developer] Recent 2.5 Changes
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> As usual, this is for those who track the CVS source. The 
> rest will have to wait for alpha-4, but it shouldn't be too long...
> 
> 1. Classes can have multiple setup, teardown, fixture setup 
> or fixture teardown methods. Base setups are run before the 
> derived setup and teardowns are run in reverse. Within the 
> same class declaration, order is undefined, so it's not too 
> useful but still possible.
> 
> NOTE: If you /override/ a base class method, you don't have 
> two methods any more, so only the override runs. Do that if 
> that's what you want, otherwise don't. :-)
> 
> 2. DataSourceAttribute provides a way to point to data for 
> individual arguments just as FactoriesAttribute (I still 
> don't like that name) points to entire test cases.
> 
> 3. TestFixtures can now have parameters, which are used in 
> searching for a constructor. You repeat [TestFixture(...)] 
> just as you do for [TestCase(...)] and each individualized 
> fixture is created separately in the tree.
> 
> 4. We already had generic fixtures and now they can have 
> parameters too. You can specify what types to use in creating 
> a specific class from the generic declaration in three ways...
> 
>  1) By preceding the constructor args with a set of 
>     Types to be used. This won't work if the first
>     constructor arg is a Type, of course.
> 
>  2) By using the TypeArgs named property of TestFixtureAttribute
> 
>  3) By using a constructor that makes use of all the 
>     Type parameters - in that case NUnit will figure
>     it out.
> 
> I'm aware that the last bit particuarly needs documentation.
> Consider the above as hints for the brave among you.
> 
> Charlie
> 
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