Re: [nant-dev] NUnitTest.Fork

[Bernard V. B. <Ber...@te...>]

I would keep in mind that NUnit 2.0 [1] is currently in beta and that NAnt
integration is on their todo list.

Regards,

Bernard

[1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/nunit/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tomas Restrepo" <to...@wi...>
To: <nan...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 6:36 PM
Subject: [nant-dev] NUnitTest.Fork


Hi Guys,

I've been looking around for a solution to a problem I've had for the Unit
Tests in our current application, and noticed that running our tests in a
separate appdomain might just be what we need to fix the issue.

I looked around, and notice, however, that the fork attribute in the current
nant NUnit support does not work as is, so I decided to give it a try at
fixing it.

I've already done some work in this area, and I think it's really not hard
to fix. However, I've run into a conundrum, so I thought I'd solicit your
input to see what you guys think it's the best alternative:

The problem right now is that when the new AppDomain is created, an instance
of NUnitTestRunner is created in it. However, this class requires an
instance of NUnitTest as an argument to it's one an only constructor. Now,
passing it would be no problem, except that it would require the NUnitTest
class to be Serializable, or MarshalByRefObject-derived.

Personally, I think the first option is the right choice: However, that
would impose changes that would rip throughout the entire NAnt library,
since all the base classes, attribute classes, etc, would need to become
serializable. That means that pretty much everything from Project and
Element all the way down would need to be changed to include the
Serializable attribute.

OTOH, making them MarshalByRefObject would be somewhat simpler, since
basically only a few base classes would need to be modified to derive from
MarshalByRefObject.

Either way, performance could suffer somewhat when running the NUNit tests
in a new appdomain, though I think the first option might be a little worse
in this.


So, what do you guys think? I'd be happy to fix it today or tomorrow, but I
want to ensure we do the right thing.

--
Tomas Restrepo
to...@mv...






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