[Opensim-dev] How are we currently running the unit tests?

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Mike Mazur wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:53:58 +0100
> Justin Clark-Casey <jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
>> How are we currently running the unit tests?  There is a TESTING.txt 
>> document in the root directory of the OpenSim distribution but I'm
>> not sure how up to date it is.
> 
> That TESTING.txt document is pretty out of date.
> 
>> I'm hoping that there's a single command to run all the unit tests
>> and that it isn't necessary to run them on separate dlls.
> 
> There is.
> 
> The tests are contained in certain DLLs. At the moment, these DLLs have
> tests in them:
> 
> OpenSim.Region.ScriptEngine.Common.Tests.dll
> OpenSim.Region.ScriptEngine.Shared.CodeTools.Tests.dll
> OpenSim.Region.ScriptEngine.Shared.Tests.dll
> OpenSim.Framework.Tests.dll OpenSim.Region.Environment.dll
> OpenSim.Region.Physics.OdePlugin.dll[1]
> 
> The console command used to run the tests is `nunit-console` (or
> `nunit-console2` on some systems). This command takes a listing of DLLs
> to inspect for tests.
> 
> Currently Bamboo's build file (.nant/bamboo.build) lists only those
> DLLs for nunit-console to use. However it would be equally correct to
> simply pass in all DLLs in bin/; those without tests are just skipped.
> 
> The nunit-console generates a file TestResults.txt by default. This is
> an XML file containing a listing of all DLLs inspected, tests executed,
> successes, failures, etc. If nunit-console is passed in all DLLs in
> bin/, this file bloats with lots of entries like this:
> 
>       <test-suite name="/home/mike/source/workspace/bin/OpenSim.Grid.Communications.OGS1.dll" success="True" time="0.000" asserts="0">
>         <results />
>       </test-suite>
>       <test-suite name="/home/mike/source/workspace/bin/OpenSim.Region.ClientStack.dll" success="True" time="0.000" asserts="0">
>         <results />
>       </test-suite>
> 
> Therefore it makes more sense to me to specify the DLLs when running
> nunit-console.
> 
> As for the TESTING.txt document, I could update it with the contents of
> this email. Would that be useful?

That would be useful and much appreciated (at least by me).

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