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[Matthias Kläy <matthias.klaey@xxxxxx>]

Hi Charlie,

Thanks for the detailed response! Aiming for NUnit 3.0 is perfectly
fine, I totally understand that it makes little sense to still do
significant work in 2.x. Something like [Include] and [Exclude] in 3.0
would fulfill my requirements. First I thought that the category
attribute could include/exclude itself based on some condition. But
giving it a second thought made me conclude that [Include] and [Exclude]
must be something in addition / on top of the current [Category]
infrastructure. But thinking about it again, having some logic right in
the category attribute would be an obvious and compact solution. I'm
sure you'll find the best approach to implement this feature.

Regarding the issues with 2.6.x:
A couple of weeks ago I simply uninstalled 2.5.10 and installed 2.6.2 and ran my tests. But that didn't work with .NET 3.5 and VS2008. I cannot remember the error details, but I guess it's just something minor. I didn't want to bother looking into the issue in more detail since I am about finalizing a version of my software and am trying to focus on that. But some time early in 2013 I will upgrade to 2.6.x. If it's an issue I cannot solve I will of course report it to you.

Best regards,
Matthias

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Title:
  Means to include/exclude categories from test code

Status in NUnit V2 Test Framework:
  New

Bug description:
  Hi NUnit,

  Use of categories is a great way to include/exclude tests depending on the physical properties of the test machine. In combination with configuration settings this feature becomes even more powerful because it allows to configure the required physical test infrastructure, and the same tests can be executed on different physical machines. In my case for example, settings are:
    'SerialPortA' and 'SerialPortAIsAvailable' (e.g. COM1 and true)
    'SerialPortB' and 'SerialPortBIsAvailable' (e.g. COM2 and false)
    'SerialPortsAreInterconnected' (e.g. false)

  When running tests, I can now manually exclude those categories which cannot be executed on the current machine. However, tests should automatically be excluded/ignored if the test machine doesn't provide the required infrastructure. Currently I achive this by:
    if (SerialPortAIsAvailable)
        <Run test case on SerialPortA>
    else
        Assert.Ignore("'SerialPortA' is not available, therefore this test is ignored. Ensure that...

  This implementation requires that every test case does perform this
  check. It would be much more convenient if a whole category was
  automatically excluded/ignored by the NUnit test runner. I'd prefer
  'ignore' because I'd prefer to clearly see that tests were skipped and
  a yellow instead of a green bar.

  Currently using:
  > NUnit 2.5.10 (not yet upgraded to 2.6.2 due to the fact that the upgrade lead to issues with .NET 3.5)
  > Gui Runner

  Best regards
  Matthias

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