Gallio – Visual Studio Integration – Issue with output of data-driven tests

I recently came across the Gallio platform, a “common object model, runtime services and tools (such as test runners) that may be leveraged by any number of test frameworks”. Essentially Gallio acts as a one stop shop for test integration and the “killer feature” for me is it’s integration into the Visual Studio test view. For those of us that do not have access to Resharper or Testdriven.NET (and have no way of running anything but MSTest tests directly through Visual Studio), Gallio’s offering is very appealing. It allows the user to run any test type supported by the Gallio platform (MbUnit, NUnit, xUnit, etc.) through Visual Studio as if they were MSTest unit tests – brilliant.

For instance, the following screenshot shows a few simple MbUnit tests in Visual Studio, as well as the test run results in the Test Results window…

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An unfortunate limitation of the mismatch between MSTest’s restricted feature set and MbUnit’s far more expressive set is that some more advanced features are lost in translation. 

  1: <Test()> _
  2: <MultipleAsserts()> _
  3: <Row(3, 3)> _
  4: <Row(3, 17)> _
  5: <Row(1, 2)> _
  6: Public Sub MyRowTest(ByVal val1 As Int32, ByVal val2 As Int32)
  7: 
  8:     Assert.AreEqual(Of Int32)(val1, val2)
  9: 
 10: End Sub


For instance, the above rowtest should run three times and fail twice. However it completes successfully with the following message:




MyRowTest(3,3) Duration: 0.016s,



Assertions: 2




Luckily for me, I posted the issue (ineloquently) on Stackoverflow, and Jeff Brown (MbUnit and Gallio lead) not only answered but logged the issue as an enhancement for an upcoming milestone. Perfecting this integration would make Gallio a must for us developers with a limited tooling budget who want to integrate non MSUnit tests into our .NET projects and do not fancy ALT-tabbing all over the place.

Comments

Anonymous said…
Thanks for sharing the link, but unfortunately it seems to be down... Does anybody have a mirror or another source? Please reply to my post if you do!

I would appreciate if a staff member here at irwinj.blogspot.com could post it.

Thanks,
Oliver
September 28, 2010 at 4:47 AM
Jason said…
Hi Oliver,
Which link are you looking for? All of the links seem to work fine from this side.
Thanks
Jason
September 30, 2010 at 1:42 PM
Anonymous said…
Hi - I am definitely delighted to find this. Good job!
April 14, 2011 at 4:09 AM
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