Integration with Neotest

[marcinjahn]

Neotest is probably the most popular testing framework for neovim. I think it'd be awesome to integrate easy-dotnet's test running capabilities with neotest by adding an adapter for neotest.

[GustavEikaas]

There is already a neotest adapter for dotnet.
thre has been some discussion with the plugin owner on integrating some of the techniques and code used in this repo.

Issafalcon/neotest-dotnet#90

[marcinjahn]

Right, but neotest-dotnet doesn’t perform too well with bigger codebases (not sure if easy-dotnet does actually, didn’t check it yet)

[GustavEikaas]

Right, but neotest-dotnet doesn’t perform too well with bigger codebases (not sure if easy-dotnet does actually, didn’t check it yet)

Due to the adapter or could it be neotest itself?

If you find any perf issues feel free to make an issue, havent spent much time optimizing yet

[bosvik]

I work on a large codebase, monorepo with 700+ tests and multiple solutions. neotest was completely unusable but easy-dotnet works perfect. Easy to switch between solutions, quick test recognition and correctly parsing the tests to filter out skipped tests. I see liitle or no performance hit in a solution with say 500 tests compared to a solution with 30. It takes a few seconds more to refresh the testrunner in the largest solution but that's expected.

[GustavEikaas]

I checked out neotest for a bit but i'm not sure if it's an alternative to the easy-dotnet testrunner or a different use-case entirely. Any neotest-dotnet users want to share their thoughts. Pros, cons and usecases for neotest and easy-dotnet testrunner?

[marcinjahn]

The pros of neotest is that it’s not just dotnet, any other language integrated with it will have the same set of keybindings, UI, experience. Having completely separate tooling for dotnet tests is a bit unfortunate (although still awesome and really appreciated! 😄)

[GustavEikaas]

Yeah, language agnostic is a really strong argument imo. I've started dabbling a little bit with a neotest adapter. Just to get a better understanding of what it is and how it works. Will keep you guys posted

[GustavEikaas]

Ill have to downprioritize this and instead work on MTP support for the time being #322

I got as far that I had neotest working with hardcoded values, so it definitely seems possible to make a neotest adapter. However i'm not sure I want to. Should probably discuss it with neotest-dotnet maintainer and maybe do a collab