Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Mandatory Use Of Attributes in csUnit (Proposal)

We are considering to drop csUnit's support for finding Tests and TestFixtures based on naming conventions, e.g. fixture names end with Test and tests starting with Test. Instead I'd like to change the specification so that it becomes a requirement to use attributes, e.g. TestFixtureAttribute and TestAttribute, to mark fixtures and tests. The benefit would be a more consistent use of csUnit, e.g. TestAssemblyFixtureAttribute can be expressed with attributes only. The impact would be that all test fixtures and all tests that still rely on naming convention would have to augmented by assigning the TestFixtureAttribute to all fixtures and TestAttribute to all tests. Depending on the number of tests this might a substantial work. Send your feedback and comments to manfred at csunit dot org. Thank you!

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