NUnitLite and the GPL
In my last post, about the NUnit team's plans for trying out the Microsoft CodePlex site, I introduced the NUNitLite project. One thing I mentioned was the possibility of its being released under the GPL license. This seems to have gotten more reaction than anything else in the post. I find that a bit disappointing, because I thought there were some other cool things in it. :-)
Be that as it may, I'll try to explain here why my next software project might use GPL and what kind of considerations I'm looking at in making a final choice.
NUnit on Microsoft CodePlex?
A reader asks "What is this about?" pointing to the new Microsoft CodePlex site, which mentions NUnit.
NUnit Extensibility - A High Level View
NUnit originally identified tests in the time-honored way that is still used by most xUnit frameworks. Test classes inherited from the framework's TestCase class. Individual test case methods were identified by their naming pattern.
NUnit 2.2.8 and Coming 2.4 Alpha
I'm afraid I'm pretty erratic about announcing new NUnit releases on the blog. NUnit 2.2.8 was released on April 21, 2006. It has a number of bug fixes to the original 2.2.4 feature base.
Running NUnit Tests from Code
There are some traps involved in running tests from code that are not immediately obvious. This was brought forcibly to my attention when I recently worked on a failing test that someone else had written.
The test in question is internal to NUnit. It attempts to run a single fixture out of a particular assembly, and then verifies that the results are as expected. I'll cover some of the traps encountered in the order that I resolved them.
Getting NUnit in China
A Chinese programmer (anonymous until he tells me otherwise) recently wrote to ask me for a copy of NUnit 2.2.7. For some reason, it appears that Sourceforge is not accessible in China. This seems odd to me, since it's hardly a political site, but the ways of bureaucracy in any country can be hard to fathom.
NUnit 2.2.7 Release / NUnit Version Numbers
NUnit 2.2.7 has just been released. It fixes some bugs that were filed against the 2.2.6 release, although some of them had been in the code for a while. You can read about what's fixed in this latest release, as well as earlier releases, in the Release Notes.
The Death of NUnit Revisited: Will it be Fire?
In my earlier post, The Death Of NUnit - Will it be Ice?, I adopted the notion - promoted in some mailing list posts - that NUnit might be dead or dying. I identified two big worries: death by ice and death by fire. Ice stood for frozen inactivity on the part of the project itself - failure to move ahead. Fire symbolized competitive forces, which might make NUnit obsolete.
About NUnit 2.2.4... Whoops... Make that 2.2.5
I've been occupied with other things and not blogging lately. Meanwhile - in fact this is one of the things I've been occupied with - NUnit 2.2.4 was released. People tried it and found a few bugs - NUnit 2.2.5 corrects them.
NUnit for .Net 2.0 - Do We Really Need It?
The NUnit 2.2.3 release contains two versions of each download: one built with .Net 1.1, one with .Net 2.0. So, what's the deal? Do we need separate versions? And which version do you need? I'll try to explain...