On Wed, 21 Nov 2007, Vincent Snijders wrote:
> Micha Nelissen schreef: > > Thorsten Engler wrote: > > > Take a look here to get some idea about the uses for attributes in just > > > the > > > core framework: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2e39z096.aspx > > > > What? Most sounds like poor hacks to get around compiler/linker limitations. > > > <snip> > > > Perhaps there are also useful ones, that do reduce application and framework > > programmers code significantly? > > In c# code I use attributes for the unit test frame work. Unittest are > compiled into a dll. The unit test runner loads the Dll and considers all > classes with the [TestFixture] attribute to be classes that contain test > methods. All test methods have the [Test] attribute. Test methods can also be > given an [Ignore] attribrute to disable testing it. Or an > [Category("LongTest")] attribute with "LongTest" a free string parameter to > create categories in your test suite, so that you tell the test runner to run > only a selection of the tests or to skip running them. > > The current fpc solution is that you need to register classes with test > methods. This is an extra action. You must type the 'TestFixture' attribute also, so no extras here. Really... Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
