Re: Multiple threading [Test] question

Hi Kelly, 

> If you run a [Test] and it spawns off another thread, and 
> that thread throws an exception, does the root Test catch 
> that exception?

No. This is the fundametal problem of testing apps that
spawn threads.
 
> Is such behavior even possible?

Using managed code, it's not possible to catch and correcty
handle arbitrary exceptions thrown by threads that NUnit doesn't
actually know about.

For the more limited situation where the test creates the thread,
you can arrange to catch exceptions and pass them on to NUnit.
It would be possible for the framework to provide a method
for spawning threads that did this for you. But if the thread
is created in the app under test, there's no way in the
current architecture.

This is one of the primary reasons I've been talking about
really big architectural changes for 3.0.

Charlie

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