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[Charlie Poole <charlie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Such an assembly is not shown as a failure, but as "NotRunnable". This can be
determined by right-clicking it in the test tree and selecting "Properties." We
are aware that the Properties display is often not discovered by users from
past bug reports on other issues so we are working on some way to make
it more easily discoverable in the next major release.

I agree that there is a problem here, but I don't think that falsely showing the
test as passing is a good solution. We consider putting a non-test assembly
into the project as a user error of the same type as trying to run an
abstract class
or mismatching the arguments of a method.

The problem I see is that there is no other info about the problem. It is not
listed in either the Errors & Failures tab or the Tests not Run tab. It may also
be an issue that we use the same icon for it as for a test failure.
I'd like to re-
target this bug toward improving how we display the problem, rather than
redefining it as not a problem. For most users, an assembly with no tests
is simply a mistake, but if the result is surprising we don't want them to spend
an inordinate amount of time figuring it out.

Feel free to comment further on the issue. I'm interested in knowing what
process you use to generate new project files when you add a new assembly.
Can't you simply filter out those with no tests at that point?

Charlie
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:29 AM, simon misys <711330@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> A test-free assembly is shown with the failure icon, ie, an X with red
> background, in the GUI runner tree display, as is its parent(s).
>
> However, the progress bar is green, as expected (assuming all other
> tests pass).
>
> Why would we want to include a test-free assembly?  Because we want to
> create a single NUnit project for an existing large solution (40+ Visual
> Studio projects) containing all of its assemblies and executables.  As
> we progressively add new tests to our product, we want NUnit to
> automatically pick them up without anyone having to remember to make
> sure the corresponding assembly/executable have been added to the NUnit
> project (and Debug/Release configurations).
>
> It is off-putting (to say the least) and misleading for NUnit label such test-free assemblies as failures in the tree display.
> It also contradicts what NUnit reports in the rest of the GUI (and when the NUnit project is run with the console runner).
>
> So, I think NUnit should not show test-free assemblies as failures in
> the tree display.  I think they should count as a success, ie, shown
> with a check with green background.
>
> Thanks.
>
> ** Affects: nunitv2
>     Importance: Undecided
>         Status: New
>
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>
> Title:
>  Test-free assembly given failure icon in tree display
>

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Title:
  Test-free assembly given failure icon in tree display

Status in NUnit V2 Test Framework:
  New

Bug description:
  A test-free assembly is shown with the failure icon, ie, an X with red
  background, in the GUI runner tree display, as is its parent(s).

  However, the progress bar is green, as expected (assuming all other
  tests pass).

  Why would we want to include a test-free assembly?  Because we want to
  create a single NUnit project for an existing large solution (40+
  Visual Studio projects) containing all of its assemblies and
  executables.  As we progressively add new tests to our product, we
  want NUnit to automatically pick them up without anyone having to
  remember to make sure the corresponding assembly/executable have been
  added to the NUnit project (and Debug/Release configurations).

  It is off-putting (to say the least) and misleading for NUnit label such test-free assemblies as failures in the tree display.
  It also contradicts what NUnit reports in the rest of the GUI (and when the NUnit project is run with the console runner).

  So, I think NUnit should not show test-free assemblies as failures in
  the tree display.  I think they should count as a success, ie, shown
  with a check with green background.

  Thanks.