Re: [dotNetRDF-Develop] TeamCity for dotNetRDF revisit

[Khalil A. <ka...@ne...>]

I already have a ReSharper license so its not a big problem for me to
switch. However, in my day-to-day (closed source) work, I prefer to use
MSTest just because it means one less thing to install when I set up a
development environment or continuous integration server. While right now
it sounds like the three of us are OK if we move things to NUnit/Resharper,
my concern is that it puts up another barrier to entry.

To be clear, I use and love ReSharper - but we need to be clear that if the
build is dependent on it, we are relying on a third-party closed-source
application. JetBrains are extremely generous towards open-source projects
and that is to be welcomed, but at the end of the day it is a business
decision, and those decisions can just as easily be reversed.

So my gut instinct is that unless NUnit *by itself* (i.e. without added
ReSharper goodness) provides tooling / features that we require we should
stick with MSTest.

Just my 2p :)

K


On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:30 PM, Rob Vesse <rv...@do...> wrote:

> Hey Tom
>
> Yes we've gone around on this a couple of times before and I have never
> had the free time to look into it further.  If you have the capacity to
> set up TeamCity to run builds and testing that would be great.
>
> If you want to explore moving to NUnit that is fine provided you do it in
> a separate branch/fork for the time being.  Now the remaining blocker bug
> you had open (graph equality) is solved I want to go ahead and run
> regressions and then hopefully push out 1.0.0 towards the end of the week
> (unless you have any objections?) so anything that interferes with that is
> bad for me right now!
>
> For me the deal breaker is being able to Debug tests inside of Visual
> Studio without having to jump through additional hoops (i.e. Debug >
> Attach to Process) as NUnit straight out the box seems to require.  To be
> honest even if JetBrains won't give us an open source ReSharper license I
> can easily afford to buy a personal license since I imagine it is
> primarily me who spends a lot of time running tests in Debug mode.
>
> I'll start a separate thread on NuGet publishing
>
> Rob
>
> On 4/13/13 3:23 AM, "Tomasz Pluskiewicz" <tom...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
> >Hi Rob
> >
> >Some time we discussed setting up continous integration for dotNetRDF.
> >I am upgrading my VPS to a more powerful machine and I have already
> >set up TeamCity. It will also be possible to install some triplestores
> >for integration testing.
> >
> >However I'm hitting a wall with unit tests because you use MSTest.
> >Would you be fine with me converting to NUnit? That way TeamCity will
> >run without installing Visual Studio and VS Express users will also be
> >able to build the whole solution. Also I think we could ask JetBrains
> >for ReSharper licence for our project (in case you would ask about
> >running the test suite from within VS). Oh and by the way, with the
> >introduction of NUnit there can be a lot less code for similar tests,
> >which can be parametrized. I assume you know the TestCase attribute.
> >
> >When TeamCity builds are running I think we should also automate NuGet
> >publishing. For that some changes will be needed to have automatic
> >version numbering. Also you would have to explain how you nuget pack
> >dotNetRDF. In a separate email maybe.
> >
> >Also I thought that maybe there could be two flavors of those
> >packages. One as usual for stable builds and a new one, which would
> >publish automatically for each successful build. What do you think?
> >
> >A thing to consider here is moving to a dedicated branch for release
> >development and leaving default only for bugfixes.
> >
> >Any thoughs?
> >
> >Thanks
> >Tom
> >
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