Commit 17174b54 authored by John Brock's avatar John Brock Committed by Jon Skeet

Updating README

- Adding more detail on running tests
- Adding info about the status of .NET 3.5 support and how to enable .NET 3.5
parent f83d1295
...@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ Building ...@@ -32,8 +32,7 @@ Building
======== ========
Open the `src/Google.Protobuf.sln` solution in Visual Studio 2015 or Open the `src/Google.Protobuf.sln` solution in Visual Studio 2015 or
later. You should be able to run the NUnit test from Test Explorer later.
(you might need to install NUnit Visual Studio add-in).
Although *users* of this project are only expected to have Visual Although *users* of this project are only expected to have Visual
Studio 2012 or later, *developers* of the library are required to Studio 2012 or later, *developers* of the library are required to
...@@ -42,6 +41,57 @@ in its implementation. These features have no impact when using the ...@@ -42,6 +41,57 @@ in its implementation. These features have no impact when using the
compiled code - they're only relevant when building the compiled code - they're only relevant when building the
`Google.Protobuf` assembly. `Google.Protobuf` assembly.
Testing
=======
The unit tests use [NUnit 3](https://github.com/nunit/nunit). Vanilla NUnit doesn't
support .NET Core, so to run the tests you'll need to use
[dotnet-test-nunit](https://github.com/nunit/dotnet-test-nunit).
`dotnet-test-nunit` can also run tests for .NET 4.5+, so to run the tests
for both .NET Core and .NET 4.5, you can simply open the
`Package Manager Console` in Visual Studio and execute:
```
dotnet test Google.Protobuf.Test
```
.NET 3.5
========
We don't officially support .NET 3.5. However, there has been some effort
to make enabling .NET 3.5 support relatively painless in case you require it.
There's no guarantee that this will continue in the future, so rely on .NET
3.5 support at your peril.
To enable .NET 3.5 support:
1. Modify [src/Google.Protobuf/project.json](src/Google.Protobuf/project.json) to add `"net35": {}` to `"frameworks"`.
2. Modify [src/Google.Protobuf.Test/project.json](src/Google.Protobuf/project.json):
1. Add `"net35": {}` to `"frameworks"`.
2. `dotnet-test-nunit` doesn't support .NET 3.5, so remove it from
the project-wide `"dependencies"` and add it to the framework-specific
dependencies under `"net451"` and `"netcoreapp1.0"`.
Note that `dotnet-test-nunit` doesn't support .NET 3.5. You can instead run the
tests with [NUnit 3 console](https://github.com/nunit/nunit-console)
by running something like:
```
nunit3-console.exe "Google.Protobuf.Test\bin\Debug\net35\win7-x64\Google.Protobuf.Test.dll" --inprocess
```
The exact path may differ depending on your environment (e.g., the `win7-x64`
directory may be called something else). The `--inprocess` flag seems to be a
necessary workaround for a bug in NUnit; otherwise, you'll receive
an error "Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation"
([possibly related issue](https://github.com/nunit/nunit/issues/1480)).
If you still want to run the .NET 4.5 and .NET Core tests, you can do so by
specifying the framework when using `dotnet-test-nunit`, i.e. from
`Package Manager Console` in Visual Studio:
```
dotnet test Google.Protobuf.Test --framework netcoreapp1.0
dotnet test Google.Protobuf.Test --framework net451
```
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