Announcing NUnit 2.5 Alpha 3

[Charlie Poole]

Hi All,

Below is the general announcement I'm sending out to other lists.

Thanks to everyone who helped with this release, especially
Andreas, Daaron, Gary, Kelly, Pablo, Simone, and Tony. Some
of you gave code, some ideas. All helped. If I missed someone,
it's not intentional, so please remind me.

Charlie

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Hi All,

Although this is still an alpha-level release, NUnit 2.5 Alpha-3 contains
enough new features that we think it will be of interest to a wider
audience than the two earlier alphas. As always, it isn't advisable to
commit yourself to alpha features for production work, but since this
release will install side-by-side with whatever release you already use, we
hope you'll give it a try - and give us some feedback.

The Alpha 3 release is version 2.5.0.8189 of NUnit. The installation allows
you to choose to install it for either .NET 1.1 or 2.0. The complete
install includes both.

Because there are so many changes, I'm including only an outline below. For
details, see the release notes at http://nunit.org/? p=releaseNotes&r=2.5 as
well as the appropriate sections of the documentation. You can download the
release at http://sourceforge.net/projects/nunit.

Charlie

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Major Changes from NUnit 2.4.7 to NUnit 2.5

General
Combined install for 1.1 and 2.0
Includes pNUnit for parallell distributed testing
New version numbering scheme
VS2008 project included with source

Generic Support
Generic Test Fixtures
Generic Test Methods
All Assserts and constraints work with nullable types
Many asserts and constraints use generic syntax

Parameterized Tests (with arguments)
TestCaseAttribute
FactoryAttribute
TestFactoryAttribute
ValuesAttribute
RangeAttribute
RandomAttribute
CombinatorialAttribute
PairwiseAttribute (NYI)
SequentialAttribute

New Asserts and Constraints
Is.SamePath constraint
Is.SamePathOrUnder constraint
DirectoryAssert and constraints
Assert.Throws
Assert.DoesNotThrow
Throws.Exception constraint
Throws.Nothing constraint
Assert.Pass
Assert.Inconclusive
Assert.IsOrdered
Is.Ordered constraint

Other Framework Changes
Static test, setup and teardown methods
Test methods may return a value
RequiredAddinAttribute
PlatformAttribute("Vista")
PlatformAttribute("Win2008Server")

Console Runner
Summary report provides more information
Removed /transform option

Gui Runner
Default display uses a single text output tab
More detailed summary report
Non-runnable tests shown in red
Inconclusive tests shown in orange
Properties that are collections now list contents

Extensibility
TestCaseProviders extension point (ITestCaseProvider)
DataPointProviders extension point (IDataPointProvider)
ValuesAttribute is extensible without writing an addin




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