[Feature] Extend <start-run> data for ITestEventListener

Hello, This is not a bug but a feature request to improve this extension: https://github.com/nunit/docs/wiki/Event-Listeners.

At the moment I think we don’t have enough information about the tests when run is started. Consider the following example:

[Extension(Description = "My NUnit Extension")]
public class MyEventListener : ITestEventListener
{
     public void OnTestEvent(string report)
     {
         var xmlNode = XmlHelper.CreateXmlNode(report);

         switch (xmlNode.Name)
         {
             case "start-run":
             {
                 //Some custom logic here...
                 break;
             }

At the moment the only data I’m getting here is the string <start-run count='0'/> But it whould be nice to get some information like test run start DateTime, the command which is used to run the tests, engine version, clr version.

The use case for this change is simple: this data can be used for creating custom real-time test run reports based on ITestEventListener extension point.

I did a small investigation and it looks like the change should be quite simple, we could extend RunTests method here (@CharliePoole, please correct me if I’m wrong)

If you agree this is a useful feature I can prepare pull request with possible code changes, but first we may need to choose the data to be available in <start-run> section.

Thank you

Regards, Evgeniy

[mikkelbu]

#629 did not auto-close this issue, as “Resolving” is not one of the recognised keywords.

[elv1s42]

Hi @ChrisMaddock,

I’ve implemented the changes here

Thank you