NUnit1028

The non-test method is public

Description

A fixture should not contain any public non-test methods.

There are two exceptions: A public constructor and an IDisposable.Dispose method implementation.

Motivation

A fixture should be self-contained and not have methods callable by other classes.

How to fix violations

If the methods are purely for this class, mark them as 'private'. If the methods are used by other classes move these methods to a separate class used by the relevant test fixtures.

Configure severity

Via ruleset file

Configure the severity per project, for more info see MSDN.

Via .editorconfig file

# NUnit1028: The non-test method is public
dotnet_diagnostic.NUnit1028.severity = chosenSeverity

where chosenSeverity can be one of none, silent, suggestion, warning, or error.

Via #pragma directive

#pragma warning disable NUnit1028 // The non-test method is public
Code violating the rule here
#pragma warning restore NUnit1028 // The non-test method is public

Or put this at the top of the file to disable all instances.

#pragma warning disable NUnit1028 // The non-test method is public

Via attribute [SuppressMessage]

[System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage("Structure",
    "NUnit1028:The non-test method is public",
    Justification = "Reason...")]