Support for Examples

Yesterday, I had an idea about how to add support for examples in MSpec.

I’d like to write this:

[Subject("Examples")]
public class WhenIDoThis
{
    Establish context = () => SetUpEverything();

    Examples<Example> examples = () =>
        {
             return new[] { new Example("hello"), new Example("world") };
        }

    Because<Example> of = example => DoSomething(example);

    It should_do_that = () => CheckThat_HoldingForAllExamples();

    It<Example> should_do_that_too = example => CheckSomethingExampleSpecific(example);
}

with

public class Example { public Example(string someData) { this.SomeData = someData; } public string SomeData { get; private set; } }

This would allow to add specific examples to a specification.

Of course, the examples should be shown in the reports (e.g. show all Properties of Example, or call ToString on Example).

A goody would be, that an individual example could be run from the R# runner (like TestData of NUnit or InlineData of xUnit)

What do you think about this?

[ivan-prodanov]

Guys, it’s been 4 years. Any updates?

[dotnetprofessional]

What’s the progress on this feature? Its been over a year since it was first described as a useful feature (which it would be). I find the lack of this feature to be the biggest issue using the framework.