Yesterday I released the new version of the RowTestExtension, an addin for NUnit. I have made following changes:
Added ExpectedException property to the [Row] attribute. It can be used to specify which type of exception to expect when the given data is passed to the test.
The [Row] attribute accepts now null values.
Removed dependency from assembly NUnitExtension.RowTest.AddIn [...]
The unit tests for NUnit contain an interesting pattern for verifying exception details. The abstract class MessageChecker in assembly nunit.framework.tests implements IExpectException, an interface introduced with NUnit 2.4. Test cases in derived test fixtures set the protected field expectedMessage to the expected exception message which can span several lines or include data from the test [...]
I had some time last week and therefore I played around with the new extensibility features of NUnit 2.4. I wanted to know, how difficult it is to implement the RowTest feature of MbUnit as NUnit Addin. Two hours later the RowTest Extension for NUnit was ready. I released the extension under the MIT license.
The [...]
In my last post I showed you how to write a minimal NUnit addin. It didn’t do anything useful, so let’s see what we can do with test decorators.
What Is a Test Decorator?
The Decorator Pattern describes a design for attaching additional responsibilities to an object dynamically. It is also known as Wrapper. Test Decorators wrap [...]
Since version 2.2.x of NUnit it was possible to build your own core extensions, but this feature was experimental. With the latest release Addins are officially supported. Core extensions can customize NUnit’s internal behavior such as the creation of tests and their execution.
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Charlie Poole released NUnit 2.4.1 yesterday. It just fixes some issues and has some minor improvements.
I plan to examine the new extensibility features of NUnit 2.4. So expect some posts about it during the next weeks.
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