Re: how does "stop" work in Nunit GUI?

Hi David,

I think not, but backward compatibility can be a real
drag on making changes, so it's likely to be an option
for a while.

One item you missed: tests run on a different machine
would work the same way as local tests!

Charlie

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Jeske [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 10:52 AM
> To: Charlie Poole
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Nunit-users] how does "stop" work in Nunit GUI?
> 
> It seems like it would always be better to run tests in a 
> separate process. Of course in order for any of this to work, 
> there would need to be a "test runner" which communicated 
> back the results of tests to the main nunit gui over IPC.  
> However, once that is done, it seems like this would be the 
> best way to always run tests because:
> 
> 1) the test process could always be "closed" or "force quit" 
> without affecting nunit gui
> 2) the test results would remain in nunit gui after the test 
> process was closed
> 3) it would be simpler to debug or profile a separate testprocess
> 
> Once this 'out of process test runner' works, is there a 
> reason to run tests in the nunit gui process?
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Charlie Poole 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > We plan some improvements for "Stop" but it can never be 
> perfect since 
> > threads don't actually have to stop! NUnit is actually 
> cancelling your 
> > thread, which is pretty heavy handed and yet - as you have 
> seen - it 
> > still may not stop.
> >
> > The /real/ solution for this, IMO, is to run tests that are 
> difficult 
> > to stop in a separate process, which can be killed if 
> necessary. This 
> > too is an enhancement we hope to add to the next release.
> 



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