Nunit: TestCaseData.SetName issue

[dgm90]

When I use the SetName method to name my test and the name contains a dot, the VS Test Explorer doesn't display the test properly.

All the tests on the screen above are used in the same methods, but in the Test Explorer they are shown like different classes. All tests that don't have a dot in their name are combined in "CreateOrdersTests" - 5 items. But the "CreateSingleOrderChargeRate1.5 is put in the separate class "CreateSingleOrderChargeRate1".

If I substitute the dot with a comma, the issue is resolved. Check the screen.

Thanks.

[CharliePoole]

NUnit test names look like the full name of a method - plus optional arg list - by default, but we allow the user to change the name of the method part. NUnit actually has no expectations at all for the format of a name and does not even use the name to find tests unless you ask it to via a filter. IOW, an NUnit test name is an arbitrary string that does not even have to be unique.

Visual Studio, OTOH, assumes that tests are named as the full name of a test method and requires them to be unique. This is a mismatch that can never be completely overcome. For that reason, we can only suggest that users do not use names containing a dot, since it confuses visual studio.

My inclination is to close this as not a bug. An alternative is to mark it as an adapter bug. It's possible for the adapter to modify the name to meet vs requirements. I definitely do not think we should modify it generally, just for the sake of a single runner.

@OsirisTerje If you would want to accept this as an issue for the adapter, please move it. Otherwise, let's close it.

[dgm90]

Hello Charlie,

Thanks for your detailed response.

[OmicronPersei]

Closing this for the reasons @CharliePoole gives above.

[xhafan]

This actually helped me: _do not use names containing a dot_

[ksokolowski7]

Solution for this case is to replace dot with \u2024. So just before naming the test use .Replace(".", "\u2024")