We have a C++ Linux project in Visual Studio that we build and run remotely on a Docker container. I am beginning to write unit tests for the project using Google Test (not tied to this framework) which I also want to run remotely. Unfortunately the tests are run locally which doesn't suit what I am trying to achieve. Does anyone know if this can be done with any test framework for C++ and if so could you point me to relevant docs etc?
I know I can create another standard Linux project containing the tests which I can run remotely but then I lose the Test Explorer functionality built-in to VS which I would prefer to be able to use.
Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
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I have test cases that are executable (*.exe files). There is no user interface involved.
How do I use Team center /visual studio online to run these test cases on server.
For now, either on demand running or scheduled running will work for me.
(Currently I have no test case that runs on server. So you may mention the basic setup. )
I have written some test cases (they are exe files). I can run them locally line any other exe file.
My code is in C++.
My test cases are in C++.
You could run them as part of your build. Just configure a build in VSO for your solution, and then modify the msbuild project file to call your tests and send the output to the build folder so it gets uploaded as part of the drop. If you are using VS, you would get a better experience using the VS unit testing support (i.e., get results in VS): http://www.visualstudio.com/get-started/run-tests-with-builds-vs.
I am just starting to work with QuantLib project. There are quite a few BOOST unit tests defined, hence the question: is there an easy way to run these tests selectively from Visual Studio (and see results)?
I've only used unit testing in .Net languages so far, and there you can either use the built-in test runner if you use MsTest, or some add-on (I used Resharper and TestDriven.NET) for other frameworks. There you can choose which tests you run, and you can run them with the debugger attached (which is unfortunately useful sometimes). Are there similar add-ons for BOOST tests in unmanaged C++?
Yes you can!
If your boost unit test project is defined correctly, then you can run the entire test project from VS10 debugger by clicking
right click on project --> Debug --> Start new instance
This will run the tests inside VS framework which will give you all the debugger goodies.
For running specific test suites/cases, just edit the project command line arguments under
right click on project --> Properties --> General --> Debugging
and add the parameters according to the links in the other answers
you can run any test case or test suite via command line. running tests by name
it even allows wildcards.
ReSharper C++ supports discovery and selective running/debugging of Boost tests (with Boost 1.59 and later).
I'm using the Boost Unit Test Adapter. It's free and has a very nice output. It can also list the time the single tests consumed and you can start single tests and group of tests.
You can download it here:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/5f4ae1bd-b769-410e-8238-fb30beda987f?SRC=VSIDE
Since running Metro apps headlessly is still a gray area: Running a metro app headlessly, I've recently decided to add a native unit test project to my Windows Metro app in hopes that I can find a way to run these unit tests in an automated fashion on the build server. Basically, I'm looking for something similar to MSTest.exe - a utility which is great for running tests from batch files and/or scripts.
In fact, I've tried using the new version of MSTest.exe that comes with VS11 on a generated test .dll, but it fails with the error:
"Unable to load the test container 'test.dll' or one of its dependencies... Error details: Could not load file or assembly file://test.dll' or one of its dependencies. The Module was expected to contain an assembly manifest."
Does MSTest.exe work with test containers that contain WinRT code? If not, is there a utility that will do what I want?
Edit: I just found out that MSTest does not support running tests on a Metro style app. Found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms253138%28v=vs.110%29.aspx This really is too bad. I'm still hoping there's a utility out there that will work.
After blindly digging through the VS folders, I happened to find a new test runner under:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio
11.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe
This utility allows you to execute WinRT unit tests from the command line. It's very similar to MSTest.exe.
There doesn't seem to be any documentation out there for this yet, but at least a help command exists.
If you are executing vstest.console.exe <filename>.dll then your tests do not get executed in appcontainer mode. You need to give <filename>.appx to execute tests in appcontainer mode. More info on how to execute tests for Windows Metro style apps from command line can be found at Running Unit Tests for Windows Metro style apps from Command Line
There is a documentation about (among other things) running unit tests for Windows Phone:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsphone/develop/dn168930(v=vs.105).aspx
It describes also the command line way of doing it using vstest.console.exe.
It also gives a comparison of supported features between unit tests for Windows Phone and WinRT.
One important detail is that unit tests for WinRT cannot be run on a device. This is a pity and relevant to question How to automate non-interactive tests on Microsoft Surface
We're using JIRA with Bamboo as build server for continuous integration.
But I have a native C++ project (using Visual Studio 2010), and apparently Microsoft doesn't support unit tests for native C++ code. There's some tools like WinUnit or cfix that seem to do the job, but neither do I know about their compatibility to Bamboo, nor do I know which tool is the best / easiest to use / has the most features / has best VS compatibility ...
Does someone have experience with that?
Just as a heads up, my current project is using c++ with bamboo for CI. We use googletest for our testing framework. If you have the build run with --gtest_output=xml:{file or Directory} it will produce xml output that can parsed by Bamboo's JUnit Parse task.
I played a bit with CppUnit. The way it works is that you create an executable project which you fill with your test cases. When run, it runs your tests. I think cfix does that but I've never used it for user mode testing. To run the tests as part of your build process, put in a post build step for your test project that runs the test exe. It'll run when you build your Visual Studio solution.
From reasons I won't get into, all our unit tests are using the VSTS test framework. I now want to create an MSBuild script that runs the tests, but I don't want to use mstest.exe from various reasons (it's slower, requires Visual Studio installation everywhere, I need to maintain testrunconfig, etc.)
I've seen that TestDriven.net and TeamCity are able to run VSTS tests 'NUnit style', without using mstest.exe. Are you aware of any standalone command line utility that does this?
You can execute Team System Tests (MSTest) in NUnit if you use a special NUnit Addin that recognizes the MS Test Attributes (TestClass, etc).
Exact Magic Software has an open-source "test-adapter" that can do this.
UPDATE: I've reworked Exact Magic's Msts NUnit Adapter for NUnit 2.5.2.
Download here: http://snippetware.googlecode.com/files/ExactMagic.MstsAdapter.zip
Read more about it here: http://www.bryancook.net/2009/10/mstest-nunit-adapter.html
It seems like TeamCity is simply leveraging Gallio to run VS tests. Gallio appears to have msbuild integration and sounds perfect but after a closer look it seems that it would require a VS install just like MSTest as it appears to depend on MS exes:
The plugin enable condition was not satisfied: '${process:DEVENV.EXE} or
${process:VSTESTHOST.EXE} or
${process:QTAGENT.EXE} or
${process:QTAGENT32.EXE} or
${process:QTDCAGENT.EXE} or
${process:QTDCAGENT32.EXE}'.
Host process exited with code: 0
That being said it sounds like at least one person has got it working:
Christoph De Baene - Running MSTest without Visual Studio
It is possible to run MSTests without installing Visual Studio. See how-do-i-use-mstest-without-visual-studio.
I did this so that I could run my tests as part of my CI process. (I am using CC.NET for my CI solution).
I am in a similar situation as you, in that I want to use TestDriven.NET to get code coverage stats. But, I am running into problems. My first problem is that I am using AssemblyInitialize attributes to initialize a database connection. This isn't supported by NUnit so about half of my tests fail whereas they run fine under MSTest.
So, it seems that translating tests from one test framework to another has pitfalls. If you are aware of that, then go forth, but it might be better to try and keep consistent on one test framework.
We run VSTS tests using msbuild TestToolsTask on a Cruise Control server. This does not use the MSTEST executable -- the condition you ask for -- but does use a variety of TFS dependencies.
Note that we are migrating tests off of the VSTS test framework for NUnit, mostly because we can create extensions for NUnit to perform useful tasks.