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[Hamish Gunn <633884@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Charlie.  I'm running (almost) happily with TestCaseData now.

I say "almost" because I've a use case that doesn't seem to be covered.
I want to be able to pass data _in_ to the test case data generator.
E.g. I'm generating data from a file.  I don't want to build the file
name into the data generator.

I can see a possible solution - call the [TextFixtureSetUp] way up
front, before any generation of dynamic tests.  At the moment this gets
called _after_ the tests are generated - too late! (I've also tried
[SetUpFixture]/[SetUp] but they seem to get called after the test
generation too.)

Calling it first is not ideal but it allows the name of the file I want
to be  used to be used by the generator class.  I could do it from a
global class's static property (yuch!).

e.g. Let the generator "know" about the TestFixture class but it could
be any global class.

[TestFixture]
public class TestHarness ....

   static string Filename { get; set; } // This holds the name of the
file to be used in generating test data

   [TextFixtureSetUp]
   public void SetUp()
   {
      Filename = ... // doesn't work at the moment because the order of execution means this is called too late.
   }

   [TestCaseData("Generator", "GetData"]
   public void ...
...
}

and in the Generator class:

public class Generator
{

   public Generator()
   {
      Filename = TestHarness.Filename;  // now it can be used in this class
      ...
   }

   public IEnumerable<..> GetData...
   {
       
---------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks again - dynamic tests are really important.

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TestCaseSource does not use Arguments, Categories etc as described in documentation for 2.5.7
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633884
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Status in NUnit V2 Test Framework: Triaged

Bug description:
What happens:

Created a class X that is returned as an IEnumerable<X> in method M of class Z.  
This is used in [TestCaseSource(typeof(Z), "M"]

Class X has been given

		public string TestName { get; private set; }

		public IList<string> Categories { get; private set; }

		public bool Ignored;

In the constructor for X,  these have been initialised
			this.Categories = new List<string> { "foo" };
			this.TestName = note;
			this.Ignored = true;

The test is executed(contrary to Ignored==true).
There are no categories in the NUinit GUI.
The test is not renamed.

What I expect:
The test is flagged as ignore.
There is a category "foo".
The test is named after the string value in TestName.

NUnit 2.5.7.
Nunit.exe (GUI)