Re: Threadstatic Problem

Charlie,

 

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly.  No I don't think I explained
myself properly.  We have a lot of tests so when we run NUnit seems to
spawn off thread's (maybe from a system threadpool I guess), is this
correct.

 

My problem is then when those threads get created but the test itself is
using a class with a ThreadStatic variable and either the [Setup] or
[TearDown] methods make a change to that threadstatic variable then they
are doing it in the main thread and not the spawned threads from nunit
because it's threadstatic.  This in turn gives problems for the tests.

 

Perhaps I'm not making myself clear, I'll attempt to draw it out or
write a bit of test code which replicates the problem if this is
unclear.

 

Thanks,

 

Robbie

 

From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charlie
Poole
Sent: 08 April 2008 17:29
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Nunit-users] Threadstatic Problem

 

Hi Robbie,

 

If I'm understanding correcty, you are creating a thread in your test
and running some code on it. Since

NUnit has already run the setup at that point, there's not much to do
about it. If I'm misunderstanding,

please follow up and I'll try again.

 

Charlie

	
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	Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 8:20 AM
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	Subject: [Nunit-users] Threadstatic Problem

	We're seeing a strange problem with some unit tests to do with
NUnit's Setup and Teardown methods.  The global setup and teardown
(TestFixtureSetUp, TestFixtureTearDown) gets executed on the primary
thread.  However if the test case is run on a secondary thread the
function level setup/teardown (Setup, Teardown) are called on the
primary thread. 

	 

	This is resulting (in what looks like) a problem with a
[ThreadStatic] attribute as the function level teardown can't touch it
correctly because it's on a separate thread.

	 

	Should the function level setup/teardown methods be called on
the functions thread and not the primary?  Or am I not understanding
something properly (likely J)

	 

	Thanks,

	 

	
	
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