Re: Dynamically Defining Tests from Config File

Brandon Payton <[email protected]> wrote:

> If there is an approach to this that would stay in the spirit of the
> NUnit architecture while allowing me to define separate tests for each
> parameter/output set, could you please point me in the right
> direction.  (It can be a very general pointing...)

Your description sounds like you are doing acceptance or integration 
testing, rather than developer testing.  That's not to say you can't do 
it in NUnit; I've done that sort of thing using an XML "table" for 
holding the data I want to pass to the test.  The actual test method 
simply loops over that data, supplying it to whatever methods are being 
tested, and reporting the results out through the GUI or the log.

However, NUnit assumes a "test one thing, and report success or failure" 
methodology, so it doesn't currently have what I would call a 
"satisfactory" way to report partial failures, or failures in one of 
many sets of data.  I managed it by doing stuff that doesn't look very 
pretty. :)  That's not a failing IMNECTHO, just a fact.

I've been investigating FIT and FitNesse (http://www.fitnesse.org) for 
this purpose lately, and I'm finding it much more appropriate for that 
type of test.

>
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> -Brandon Payton
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