This is good news; I can wait a couple of weeks and do something else right
now.
I'm looking forward to the new Release. I really hope that != operator will
make it.

Thanks

On 10/29/07, Jeff Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>  This feature will be in MbUnit v3.  We will be releasing an Alpha version
> of MbUnit v3 within the next couple of weeks.
> The nice thing is that MbUnit v3 (actually the Gallio Test Automation
> Platform underneath it) can run MbUnit v2 tests unmodified.
>
> The syntax for OR currently looks a bit like this:
>
> Gallio.Echo.exe SomeAssembly.dll /f:Category=Foo,Bar,Blah
>
> You can AND filters together like this:
>
> Gallio.Echo.exe 
> SomeAssembly.dll/f:Category=Foo,Bar;Type=SomeType,SomeOtherType
>
> Assuming a != condition is added, you examples could get translated to
> something like this:
>
> WinXP or WinVista: "Category=WinXP, WinVista"
> NOT Excel: "Category!=Excel2003, Excel2007"
> Debug or Release: "Category=Debug, Release"
> WinXP and Debug and not Excel: "Category=WinXP, WinVista; Category=Debug;
> Category!=Excel2003"
>
> To make things fully general we'll need grouping operators and
> combinators.  This is already fully supported by the infrastructure but not
> available in the syntax:
>
> (NOT (WinXP AND Excel2003)) OR Foo: "! (Category=WinXP;
> Category=Excel2003) | Category=Foo"
>
> Jeff.
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On
> Behalf Of *Leonid Lastovkin
> *Sent:* Monday, October 29, 2007 5:22 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* MbUnit Is it possible to "AND" categories (in addition to
> "OR"-ing) for /fc and /ec flags of the MbUnit.Cons/GUI.exe ?
>
>
> I need to partition (in proper mathematical sense - mutually exclusive and
> collectively exhaustive)
> the tests (actually test fixtures) that I have while not separating them
> into different assemblies.
> Each set (or a pair of sets in the case of Debug vs Release) of test
> fixtures will run on a designated test host
> (with different versions of Windows and Excel installed).
> Each will spit out its own xml result, which will get merged into a single
> report.
> Each test host will have to work with the exact same C# project containing
> tests.
> Each host will be able to compile the project in Debug | Release or other,
>
> but will have to figure out how to run only the tests that are appropriate
> for the versions of Windows and Office installed.
>
>
> Right now my 8 categories are:
>
> 1) Tests that are meant to run under Windows XP, with Office 2003 in Debug
> mode.
> ...
> 8) Tests that are meant to run under Windows Vista, with Office 2007 in
> Release mode.
>
> I can add several categories to each test fixture; for example:
>
> [TestFixture]
> [FixtureCategory("WinXP")]
> [FixtureCategory("Excel2003")]
> [FixtureCategory("Debug")]
>
> I may want to complicate things slightly by introducing other categories:
>   *    "AnyWin" = "WinXP" OR "WinVista",
>  **    "NoExcel" =  NOT ("Excel2003" OR "Excel 2007"),
> ***    "AnyTarget" = "Debug" OR "Release",
>
> I can use the switches /fc = /filter-category and /ec = /exclude-category
> to achieve some filtering, but I cannot do everything that I would like to
> do.
> If I understand the documentation correctly, multiple categories get OR-ed
> when I supply a comma-separated list of them.
>
> For example, the following switch for the MbUnit.Cons.exe:
>     "/fc:x1,x2,x3,...xn /ec:y1,y2,y3,...ym" is logically equivalent to:
>
> [(x1 OR x2 OR x3 ... OR xn)] AND [( NOT (y1 OR y2 OR y3 ... OR ym))]
>
> The structure of this logical expression is restricted to at most: a
> single AND, a single NOT, two (though arbitrary long) ORs and 10
> parenthesis's.
> I cannot create a category filter like: (WinXP only) and (Debug only) and
> no Excel.
>
>
> =========================================================================================================
>
> Or can I? Am I missing something about the usage of MbUnit.Cons/GUI.exe ?
> I would find this feature useful.
>
> Thanks.
>
> >
>


-- 
Leonid Lastovkin

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