A pluggable agent for the TestCentric Gui Runner, capable of running tests under .NET 5.0.
Version 2 of the TestCentric Engine will no longer have built-in agents for running tests. All agents will be distributed separately, as pluggable agents, which are a particulary type of engine extension supported by TestCentric.
Of course, a runner without any agents would not be capable of doing anything useful. So, each runner we provide
will come with at least one pluggable agent pre-installed. For example the 2.0 release of the GUI will
include agents targeting net462, net6.0 and net7.0.
The pluggable agents provided with a runner are still separate packages, but are listed as dependencies of the runner package itself. This allows us to modify easily modify the set of standard agents provided for a runner over it's life cycle and over the life cycle of the supported .NET platforms.
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All pluggable agents are being released with an initial version of 2.0.0. This is done to serve as a reminder that the agents will only function in version 2.0.0 or higher of the TestCentric Gui Runner.
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The package id for each pluggable agent uses the NUnit naming convention: NUnit.Extension.* or nunit-extension-*. However, no releases of NUnit 3 currently support this type of extension and it's not clear whether they will be supported in future releases.