TestAttachments.NUnit 4.0.0-Preview-20241018-1255

Overview

When writing tests that depend heavily on resources and attachment files, it is usually convenient to have an easy way to retrieve the resources, and also to have a way to organize the attached files based on the test IDs.

NUnit provides the properties needed to build per test paths in the TestContext object, but the rest is up to the developer.

This library provides a last mile API, easing the process of working with resources and file attachments.

Usage

The library defines two attributes

• ResourcePathFormat(string format)
• AttachmentPathFormat(string format)

Which can be used in assemblies, classes and individual methods.

The format defines how the test output directory will be created for the given test, by using a number of macros:

Predefined absolute path macross:

predefined relative path macross:

By using these macros, we can define the attribute like this:

[AttachmentPathFormat("{WorkDirectory}/{ID}/{Date}")]

when running a test, it will replace the macros with the appropiate values taken from the current test context.

the default and most common use will be

[AttachmentPathFormat("?")]

which creates a directory for every test.

Example

using NUnit.Framework;

[assembly: ResourcePathFormat("{TestDirectory}/Resources")]
[assembly: AttachmentPathFormat("{WorkDirectory}/TestResults/{ID}")]

namespace TestNamespace
{
    [AttachmentPathFormat("{WorkDirectory}/{ID}")] // Alternatively: [AttachmentPathFormat("?")]
    public class TestClass
    {
        [Test]
        public void WriteTextAttachment()        
        {
            var text = ResourceInfo
                .From("hello.txt")
                .ReadAllText();

                text += " - good bye!";

            AttachmentInfo
                .From("result.txt")
                .WriteAllText(text);            
        }

        [Test]
        [AttachmentPathFormat("{WorkDirectory}/ExplicitMethodResult-{Date}-{Time}")]
        public void WriteExplicitTextAttachment()
        {
            var text = ResourceInfo
                .From("hello.txt")
                .ReadAllText();

            text += " - good bye!";

            AttachmentInfo
                .From("result.txt")
                .WriteAllText(text);     
        }
    }
}

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