I have played a bit with it.
A few things I do not understand about contract verifiers:
1. How to debug them?
2. How to run just one contract test case? Icarus shows the contract
verifier tests as one atomic unit.
3. If a contract verifier should include a combinatorial test, then
one has to implement it all by oneself, because dynamic test
generation does not provide this service, unlike the statically
compiled unit test cases, am I correct?

Thanks.


On Aug 24, 10:04 pm, "Jeff Brown" <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's pretty much it but you could instead create a TestSuite that contains
> multiple TestCases.
>
> There is a bunch of framework code for data-driven testing in
> Gallio.Framework.Data.  Some of this may be useful to use however I expect
> you will find it easier to keep it simple and generate combinatorial tests
> using nested loops.
>
> Jeff.
>
>   _____  
>
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of mark Kharitonov
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 9:05 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: MbUnit Re: How to extract the test Metadata from within the SetUp
> method?
>
> On the subject of manually writing combinatorial tests.
> I have a question here.
> A combinatorial test appears just once in Gallio.Icarus. It serves as a well
> defined report unit, under which the actual test steps appear.
> How can I achieve the same effect with manually created combinatorial tests?
> Looks like I need to create a test and then the test steps as children of
> that test, is that right?
>
> BTW, Is it possible to reuse Gallio code when manually creating
> combinatorial test steps?
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Jeff Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> At runtime you can obtain information about the current test using
> TestContext.Current.Test.
>
> What you cannot do at the moment is to easily obtain information about other
> tests.  Well, in principle the whole test model is fully accessible but in
> practice you'll find it to be inconvenient to work with.
>
> I have been thinking about what you said with respect to regenerating
> dynamic test cases from static ones for testing entities of different types.
> I think I would recommend that you instead implement a new contract
> verifier.
>
> Take a look at IContract, VerifyContractAttribute and some of the existing
> contract verifiers like EqualityContract.
>
> You could pretty easily implement an EntityContract of your own.  Basically
> a contract generates test cases in the same manner as a [StaticTestFactory]
> but they are packaged in a more convenient form for reuse.
>
> However, contracts then have the same disadvantage as the static & dynamic
> test factories in that they do not (yet) provide convenient abstractions for
> representing data-driven test cases.  I expect that this can be remedied
> with a little work but it's out of scope for v3.1.  As a result you will
> have to write your own combinatorial test generators and such but it's
> pretty trivial code.
>
> Anyways here's what an entity contract might look like to the user:
>
> [VerifyContract]
> public readonly EntityContract MyEntityContract = new
> EntityContract<MyEntity>(... options...);
>
> Jeff.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
>
> Behalf Of Mark Kharitonov
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 11:52 AM
> To: MbUnit.User
> Subject: MbUnit How to extract the test Metadata from within the SetUp
> method?
>
> I mean, besides using the reflection on the test method by its name. I
> expected to find something like GetMetadata method on the Test class, but
> there is none.
>
> --
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