Re: Passing parameters to NUnit

A better convention is the one to precede the list of arguments to be passed
along straight with --.

eg.  MyWrapperApp.exe -somearg -someother arg MyProgram.exe --
-argformyprogram foo bar

What's nice is that it nests trivially.

The Windows CMD does something similar with the /C and /K arguments.  All
following text is interpreted as the command.

Jeff.

-----Original Message-----
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Poole
Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 10:10 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [nunit-developer] Passing parameters to NUnit

So there are really two things to decide...
1) How to pass the parameters into NUnit
2) How the tests can access them

1) The double slash convention is nice, although not directly translatable
into the Linux environment. I wonder if there is a similar convention that
they use. Maybe we could have a longer, cross-platform approach like
/test-args= as the last option on the command line but still support the //
shortcut on Windows.

2) Using Environment.CommandLineArguments is a bit problematic, since we
don't execute your tests as an exe. The commandline args would be those for
nunit, nunit-console, nunit-agent, visual studio, or whatever environment
you were under.
I think we need to provide something separate like TestContext.TestArguments
for this to work.

Charlie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sujin Han [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 9:13 AM
> To: [email protected]; Charlie Poole
> Subject: RE: [nunit-developer] Passing parameters to NUnit
> 
> I like the convention that NCover uses - a double slash to specify 
> NCover command line parameters, and a single slash to specify any 
> command line parameters that you like to pass to a module it's 
> loading.
> 
> Alternatively, we can have NUnit to ignore any double slash command 
> line parameters. This way, it's fully backward compatible, and people 
> don't have to change the current usage.
> 
> For example, to start a test:
>   nunit-console NUnitDemo.dll /run=STR /err=STR //myparameter:abc
> 
> And then, from the test code I can do this:
> 
> [TestFixtureSetUp]
> public void setup(){
>   string[] args = Environment.GetCommandLineArgs();
>   foreach (string arg in args)
>   {
>     // process my command line arguments
>     if (arg.Contains("//"))
>       // do something
>   }
> }
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> --- On Thu, 7/24/08, Charlie Poole <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > From: Charlie Poole <[email protected]>
> > Subject: RE: [nunit-developer] Passing parameters to NUnit
> > To: [email protected], [email protected]
> > Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 10:14 AM At the moment,
> there is no way
> > to pass such parameters to NUnit, nor any way for the test
> to retrieve
> > them if they were passed.
> > 
> > I'm thinking about something like this for a coming release, so any 
> > suggestions as to how it ought to work are welcome.
> > 
> > Charlie
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > [mailto:[email protected]]
> > On
> > > Behalf Of Sujin Han
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 7:33 AM
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [nunit-developer] Passing parameters to NUnit
> > > 
> > > Hi
> > > 
> > > I'm looking for a way to pass parameters into an
> > NUnit test
> > > at start-up time. I thought about faking it by setting
> > the
> > > environmental variables to get parameters into a test
> > case. 
> > > But before exploring that route I wanted to see if
> > there were
> > > any other options that's already there. And
> > I'm willing to
> > > try beta version of Nunit if necessary.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >       
> > > 
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