How do I skip specific tests in xUnit based on current platform
- I have an assembly that I've built on Windows
- I want to run the xUnit tests on mono in Linux.
However, I have found that while 400 of these tests can run (in order), that certain tests either hang the xUnit runner, or bring it down entirely.
I don't care if certain tests are not able to run on Linux, certain tests are to do with the DTC and some unmanaged gumph that we don't need to support there.
What I do want however, is to apply an ignore to those tests, and have the fact that the test was ignored flagged properly in the build output.
The question can be boiled down to I guess a number of possible solutions
- How do I run specific tests in xUnit via the console runner? (I haven't found documentation to this end, maybe I'm just not looking hard enough)
- Is it possible to go the other way and say "Here is an assembly, please ignore these specific tests though"
- Having an attribute on those tests has been suggested a better way, to formally document that these tests are platform specific - is this possible?
If I could avoid modifying the original code too much that would be grand, as the code isn't really mine to change, and applying lots of cross-platform hacks probably won't go down too well.
Answer
XUnit v2.0 is now available. Skippable tests are supported by it directly. Use:
[Fact (Skip = "specific reason")]