Re: [dotNetRDF-Develop] TeamCity for dotNetRDF revisit

[Tomasz P. <tom...@gm...>]

Do you have your fork publicly visible? I wonder why we need
conditional compilation in unit tests...

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Khalil Ahmed <ka...@ne...> wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> Good point! I think if everything is set up so that it is possible to use
> NUnit without requiring ReSharper I would be happy.
>
> One of the reasons why the portable stuff is taking a while is that I wanted
> to get as many of the unit tests working with the portable library as
> possible, so we may need to coordinate on this as I have some changes
> (mostly conditional compilation of unit tests) that will clash with any
> wholesale change of the unit test infrastructure and I really really don't
> want to have to manually merge it all :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Kal
>
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Tomasz Pluskiewicz
> <tom...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Khal
>>
>> Actaully in terms of CI environment switching ot NUnit means one thing
>> less to install, because MSTest requires installing Visual Studio to
>> run and NUnit is bundled with probabyl about any CI server out there.
>>
>> I merely suggested Reshareper as a convenient test runner replacement.
>> By the way there is a trick, which can be employed to automatically
>> start NUnit GUI runner and attach VS debugger on start. For that the
>> test project has to be changed to a console app. Simple and should
>> work for anyone who doesn't have R# on their box.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Khalil Ahmed <ka...@ne...>
>> wrote:
>> > 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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