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Is it possible to replace NUnit with xUnit?

Discussion in 'Testing & Automation' started by Garzec, Jul 18, 2021.

  1. Garzec

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    When creating unit tests Unity makes use of the NUnit test framework



    Is there a simple way to replace NUnit with xUnit?

    So all the features provided by Unit behave the same as before but I can write the tests with xUnit :)
     
    Garzec, Jul 18, 2021
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  2. superpig

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    No, there's no simple way to do this. The com.unity.test-framework package is deeply integrated with NUnit.
     
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  3. Garzec

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    hmm :( Ok

    Any chances it will change in the future?
     
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  4. superpig

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    Never say never, but we have no plans to add support for other test frameworks at this time, sorry.

    Is there something in particular you need from it?
     
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  5. Garzec

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    No, nothing special.

    I personally prefer xUnit, but that's my personal opinion :)

    I think it's easier to write tests, e.g. instead of using the [Setup] annotation for a Setup method you can simply use the constructor.
     
    Garzec, Jul 18, 2021
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  6. superpig

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    Right. Yeah, sorry, we are not going to rewrite the whole test package just for reasons of personal preference :)

    One interesting note about your specific example: that would actually make it impossible to implement [UnitySetUp] on top of xUnit, because you can't have a constructor which is an iterator block.
     
    superpig, Jul 19, 2021
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  7. bdovaz

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    What about updating NUnit version @superpig? it's a recurring request.
     
    bdovaz, Jul 21, 2021
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  8. superpig

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    Yes, that one is on our roadmap. No ETA yet though, sorry.
     
    superpig, Jul 21, 2021
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  9. io-games

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    It seems some reporting tools (allure, gitlab ci) do not understand nunit xml. Need to convert to junit.
     
    io-games, Oct 27, 2022
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