Re: Dynamically Defining Tests from Config File

To Michael, Ian, Brad, and Charlie:

Thank you for your help and suggestions.  I have been able to define
the tests that I wanted using MbUnit, but I may move back to NUnit
when I have time since most of our other .NET unit tests use NUnit.
The failure aggregation suggestions were useful and would definitely
be enough for our purposes.  (You know, I should have thought of
that...)


-Brandon


On Dec 1, 2007 8:29 PM, Michael Reppy <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Our very simple solution to this is to have one 'test'.  In which, we
> loop through the parameters and feed the data into a helper method
> which is invoked inside a try/catch.
>
> the helper method is written like a unit tests with all the asserts
> one would want to use.
>
> the loop catches any asserts, writing the message to a
> StringBuilder.  After the loop, if the StringBuilder has any length,
> it calls Assert.Fail.
>
> I think this nothing more than just restating what Charlie said, but
> we have found this useful to find a way to catch all the errors in
> one run.
>
> -Mikey
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Charlie Poole wrote:
>
> > Hi Brad,
> >
> >> Your description sounds like you are doing acceptance or
> >> integration testing, rather than developer testing.
> >
> > It initially sounded that way to me as well, but on further
> > explanation, it seemed like he just needed a cleaner way
> > to create multiple developer tests.
> >
> > I guess that parameterized tests are a feature that may
> > be needed independent of the particular purpose of the
> > tests. We'll definitlely have them in 3.0, but I'm not
> > sure about 2.4.x. One approach would be to choose a syntax
> > that works well with the current add-in design.
> >
> > I'll think about it, but if anyone is already working
> > on a solution, let me know.
> >
> > Charlie
> >
> >
> >
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