Run NUnit tests listed in a file

[Charlie Poole]

I have a list of several thousand NUnit tests that I want to run (generated automatically by another tool). (This is a subset of all of the tests, and changes frequently)

I'd like to be able to run these via NUnit-Console.exe. Unfortunately the /run option only takes a direct list of files which in my case would not fit on a single command line. I'd like it to pickup the list from a specified text or xml file with a list of tests.

I appreciate that I could use categories, but the list I want to run changes frequently and so I'd prefer not to have to start changing source code.

Does anyone know if there is a clean way to get NUnit to run my specified tests? (I could break it down into a series of smaller calls to NUnit-console with a full command line, but that's not very elegant)

If it's not possible, should add this as a NUnit feature request?
(http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7105475/is-it-possible-for-run-nunit-against-a-specific-long-list-of-tests)

[Charlie Poole (charlie.poole)]

Let's discuss how this should work at the command line on the nunit-discuss list.

[Charlie Poole (charlie.poole)]

After discussion on the list, it was decided to add a /runlist parameter taking the name of a file. The file contains, one per line, the test cases, fixtures, or namespaces to be executed. Lines starting with a # are ignored.

We also discussed adding a more general option to place any arguments in a file, but that will need to be a separate feature and it won't be done in NUnit 2.6.