[IronPython] ironpython and NUNIT

[Michael Foord]

Curt Hagenlocher wrote:
> I haven't tried to use Alex's adapter, though it looks rather 
> interesting.  The reason why the adapter is necessary is that 
> frameworks like NUnit rely on the ability to attach CLR attributes to 
> your methods, something which we can't do today for IronPython.
>  
> Have you considered using the native "unittest" library?  Granted, it 
> doesn't have "a nice GUI", but it works pretty well.  The module 
> itself is part of the standard CPython library, which we're not yet 
> including with IronPython so you'll have to download it yourself from 
> python.org <http://python.org>.  You can see documentation for it at 
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-unittest.html.
>  
> One advantage of unittest.py is that it should work the same for 
> IronPython 1.x and 2.x because it's implemented in pure Python and 
> therefore not dependent on the IronPython hosting APIs.
>

+1

Our whole test framework at Resolver Systems is built on unittest and it 
works very well with IronPython (as well as being the 'standard' Python 
testing framework).

Michael Foord

> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:17 AM, Kaveripakam, Sathish 
> <Sathish.Kaveripakam at phonak.com 
> <mailto:Sathish.Kaveripakam at phonak.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hello All,
>      
>     i am trying to use the NUNIT with Ironpython using VS2005, .NET
>     2.0  version (
>     http://blog.bittercoder.com/CommentView,guid,ef0c495d-6804-4d6e-9537-ce238b6047c3.aspx#commentstart ),
>     but I am not able to get the things going. Could any one had
>     issues with the usage ?
>      
>     Are there any test frameworks available which will work with iron
>     python ? any pointers/hints are welcome.
>
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