Re: Need Feedback: RequiredAddinAttribute

Hi David,
 
This got a bit of discussion a while back, when we were thinking of doing
it.
 
The concensus seemed to be this: If I wrote a test suite that requires an
addin,
then I want a failure if the addin is not present. So the absence of a
required addin 
gives a Not Runnable status, which pretty much looks like an error (it's
red).
 
In other words, we don't (in the alpha anyway) treat a missing addin like a
normal difference in configuration - mostly because we assume that the addin
can be installed easily.
 
Since TestBuilders and SuiteBuilders were easiest to build in the beginning,
that's what most people did. Hopefully, there will be less of them in
future.
 
It seems "intuitive" that you could write "[MyTest,
RequiredAddin("MyTestAddin")] 
and have NUnit give you some kind of report, but it's not that obvious how
NUnit
could distinguish it from [MySetUp, RequiredAddin("MySetUpAddin")] assuming
each is on a method with the same signature.
 
Charlie


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From: David Jeske [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 12:37 PM
To: Charlie Poole
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Nunit-users] Need Feedback: RequiredAddinAttribute


On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:27 PM, Charlie Poole <[email protected]> wrote:


The 2.5 Alpha 3 release of NUnit includes the RequiredAddinAttribute,
used to indicate that a test expects a particular addin to be installed.
This is intended to give a failure if the addin is not present.

As explained at http://nunit.org/?p=requiredAddin
<http://nunit.org/?p=requiredAddin&r=2.5> &r=2.5 the attribute
will not always be seen by NUnit when it is placed on a method or
a class. I'm thinking of disallowing it on methods and classes in
the next release for that reason. What do you think?


I don't use Addins, so I'm not the best qualified to answer this, but I
imagine if I did use Addins, I would want to put [RequiredAddin] mostly on
methods, so that my test framework could remain in-tact with their current
assembly organization, and those tests would simply not run if the Addin was
not available. (showing yellow in the nunit-gui)

Do most Addins make their own [MyTest] attributes to mark tests?

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