ITestAssemblyRunner - dictionary of settings in Load()

[Joseph Wang]

I'm trying to adapt a NUnitLite test runner to use the Category attribute in NUnitLite 1.0, so that I can run a specific batch of tests at a given point. (so, not strictly unit testing) I'm looking at the documentation and the source, but I can't seem to get it to run a specific set of tests with a certain category.

The particular section I'm having trouble wrapping my head around is the second parameter in Load:

private ITestAssemblyRunner runner;
...
IDictionary loadOptions = new Hashtable();
    loadOptions.Add("CategoryAttribute", category); //category is a string
    if (!runner.Load(assembly, loadOptions))
...

My test fixture looks like this

 

[TestFixture]
[Category("Original")]
public class ExampleTest2
{
...

I've tried everything I can think of - "Category", "/include", "-include", and I've tried making my [Test]/[TestFixture] explicit. Without the [TestFixture, Explicit], the test runs every time, regardless of the loadOptions category string. With the explicit, it doesn't run at all.

The NUnitLite release notes say that the runner supports the -include option as per NUnitLite 0.9. What am I doing wrong? Is what I'm doing possible in NUnitLite?

[Charlie Poole]

Hi Joseph,

What version of NUnit does the code you cite come from? In NUnit 1.0,
the -include and -exclude attributes are used to create a testfilter,
which is passed as an argument to the Run method of the runner.

Charlie

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[Joseph Wang]

Hello Charlie,

Ah, now I see it - TextUI.cs in the /Framework/Runner/ source folder! I should have paid closer attention to the original source. I seem to have got the categories working now (albeit, it's not very clean) - I might chuck it up on my GitHub repo in the coming days.
http://github.com/josephsw/NUnitLite-for-Unity

Thanks again for your help!