For those of you familiar with Gallio, what Advantages and Disadvantages have you experienced using this tool, a so-called Test Automation Platform?
We're using Gallio/MbUnit for a year now. We're quite happy with it, the Gallio guys keep introducing cool new features and the development is active. If you decide to use it, here are some hints/notes:
- Buy yourself a TestDriven.NET license - I think it is a must for Gallio unit tests, since Resharper test runner doesn't know how to run certain tests + Gallio has one of its test runners targeted for TD.NET.
- We use Gallio.Echo command line runner for CI scripts/builds. Gallio Icarus - the GUI runner (at least the current version) is pretty unstable and not very user friendly.
- If you want to use the latest Gallio features (like parallel tests etc), be prepared to have to use the latest daily builds of Gallio. If this is an issue, keep to "official" builds, but we haven't had any real problems with daily build versions.
- I recommend adding the basic Gallio .DLLs and .EXEs to your source control. And actually reference these in your projects, not ones from GAC. This way you'll avoid any "works on my machine" problems if someone in your team has a different version of Gallio installed on his/her machine.
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