Re: reason for error status of an addin?

Hi William,

> Thanks for the advice.
> I looked for but couldn't find the nant script you mentioned.
> Could you please point me to it?

http://nunit.org/?p=addins

Based on my own experience and other folks' reports, most errors 
in loading addins seem to be caused by referencing a different 
build of nunit.core or nunit.core.interfaces when building
the addin from the one used when loading it.

This is clearly a problem we need to solve.
 
> Hopefully using the nant script resolved my problem, and when 
> we start using nunit 2.5 we get the iterative test built in....

Give the alpha-3 a try: a temporary copy till I can get it on
soureforge is here: http://nunit.org/downloads/NUnit-2.5.0.8189.msi

> But it would be nice to see some better handling of addin errors.
> A simple 'Error' status doesn't really tell me anything I 
> didn't know; the tests didn't show up in the GUI so I knew 
> something had failed.

I haven't focused on this because we plan to redo the addin architecture
on the basis of mono.addins for 3.0, but you're right - a simple error
message would help a lot.

> Perhaps some nunit logging? Or windows event log even?

There was once log4net logging. However, it caused a problem with
tests of applications that used a different version of log4net and
was removed. The same would likely be true of nlog. 

> I was hoping there was an nunit log file that I hadn't been 
> able to find... is there?

Currently, there is some trace output, which goes to a file in the root
of C:\ by default - see the config file. You should also be able to see
console trace output if you use the /console option on the gui.

As usual with open source, the existence of these problems is related to 
the fact that I don't experience them. That's because I use a debug
version of NUnit for my testing. Of course, it should be easier for 
others as well. :-(

BTW, use of the Windows event log would be a bit of a problem, since
it would require having separate builds for Windows, Mac, Linux, etc.
Currently we only have separate builds per CLR version.

Charlie

> Thanks again
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
> Of Charlie Poole
> Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 9:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Nunit-users] reason for error status of an addin?
> 
> If you need to use it with NUnit 2.4.7, I suggest making use 
> of the nant script I put on the web site. Because it is set 
> up to use the same copy of NUnit for building that you plan 
> to use for running it, it cuts down on errors.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected]
> > [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Kelly 
> > Anderson
> > Sent: Monday, July 07, 2008 5:58 PM
> > To: William Boatin; [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Nunit-users] reason for error status of an addin?
> >
> > Hi William,
> >
> >   I'm not sure the specific issue you're dealing with, but my 
> > recommendation if you can would be to switch to the NUnit 
> 2.5 beta 2 
> > which has the functionality that you are looking for built 
> in. It is 
> > available on the web site. That's what I've done. I think 
> beta 3 will 
> > be up very soon, and you might want to wait for that if you can, as 
> > some things have changed.
> >
> >   If you have to stick with 2.4.7 for some reason, maybe 
> someone else 
> > will have a better suggestion on finding more about the error.
> >
> > -Kelly
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 6:43 AM, William Boatin 
> > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I have built the source code for the iterative test
> > extension(written
> > > by Kelly Anderson) against nunit 2.4.7.
> > >
> > > I am having difficulty getting the extension to be
> > recognized by the
> > > nunit GUI.
> > >
> > > All I see in the GUI, in the Tools\AddIns. menu, under
> > status, is 'Error'.
> > > What does this mean? Why the error? Where can I get more
> > info on why
> > > this extension errored?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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