The change you have made is actually what the TODO comment is talking about. At some past time, loading by AssemblyName rather than by the string name of the file caused failures. Whatever the cause was, it seems to be gone now. I'm able to change this code in both 2.5 and 3.0 and everything works OK.
So I understand this better, what's different about your assembly name - i.e. is there a key, a non-default culture, etc? ** Also affects: nunitv2 Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: nunitv2 Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: nunit-3.0 Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: nunitv2 Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: nunit-3.0 Importance: Undecided => Medium ** Changed in: nunit-3.0 Assignee: (unassigned) => Charlie Poole (charlie.poole) ** Changed in: nunitv2 Assignee: (unassigned) => Charlie Poole (charlie.poole) ** Changed in: nunit-3.0 Milestone: None => 2.9.5 -- NUnit console runner fails to load assemblies https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/595683 You received this bug notification because you are a member of NUnit Developers, which is subscribed to NUnit V2. Status in NUnit Test Framework: Triaged Status in NUnit V2 Test Framework: Triaged Bug description: I am using NUnit 2.9.4 which I have downloaded as source and compiled with VS2010 RC. I had trouble loading my test assemblies running the test-runner.exe gives the following output: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS C:\projects\Specs\Specs.Test\bin\Debug> ..\..\..\..\NUnit\NUnit-2.9.4\solutions\vs2010\bin\Debug\test-runner.exe .\Specs.Test.dll TestRunner version 1.0.0 Copyright c 2009 Charlie Poole Runtime Environment - OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 .NET Version: 4.0.30128.1 Options - Use Same AppDomain Could not load file or assembly 'Specs.Test' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. PS C:\projects\Specs\Specs.Test\bin\Debug> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If I change the method Load on the class DefaultTestAssemblyBuilder in the file NUnit-2.9.4\src\framework\Internal\DefaultTestAssemblyBuilder.cs from private Assembly Load(string path) { Assembly assembly = null; // Throws if this isn't a managed assembly or if it was built // with a later version of the same assembly. AssemblyName assemblyName = AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName(Path.GetFileName(path)); // TODO: Figure out why we can't load using the assembly name // in all cases. Might be a problem with the tests themselves. assembly = Assembly.Load(Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(path)); if (assembly != null) CoreExtensions.Host.InstallAdhocExtensions(assembly); InternalTrace.Info("Loaded assembly " + assembly.FullName); return assembly; } to private Assembly Load(string path) { Assembly assembly = null; // Throws if this isn't a managed assembly or if it was built // with a later version of the same assembly. AssemblyName assemblyName = AssemblyName.GetAssemblyName(Path.GetFileName(path)); // TODO: Figure out why we can't load using the assembly name // in all cases. Might be a problem with the tests themselves. assembly = Assembly.Load(assemblyName); if (assembly != null) CoreExtensions.Host.InstallAdhocExtensions(assembly); InternalTrace.Info("Loaded assembly " + assembly.FullName); return assembly; } I can load my assemblies. -The difference in the code is that the Assembly.Load call takes the AssemblyName instead of the path. With the code change the test-runner output is: PS C:\projects\Specs\Specs.Test\bin\Debug> ..\..\..\..\NUnit\NUnit-2.9.4\solutions\vs2010\bin\Debug\test-runner.exe .\Specs.Test.dll TestRunner version 1.0.0 Copyright c 2009 Charlie Poole Runtime Environment - OS Version: Microsoft Windows NT 5.1.2600 Service Pack 3 .NET Version: 4.0.30128.1 Options - Use Same AppDomain Tests run: 6, Errors: 0, Failures: 0, Inconclusive: 0 Not run: 0, Invalid: 0, Ignored: 0, Skipped: 0 Time: 0,031 seconds PS C:\projects\Specs\Specs.Test\bin\Debug> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nunit-core Post to : nunit-core@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nunit-core More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp