I have developed a build system on MSBuild (NET 3.0) and cc.net to perform continuous integration builds of a Visual Studio 2008 application, however a developer on the team recently added a VSTS unit test project to the mix. Is there any SDK or add-in provided by microsoft to allow this to be compiled on a non-team system build environment?
You can run the tests from the command-line, but it requires that the Test Edition of Visual Studio be installed on your build server:
http://devlicio.us/blogs/derik_whittaker/archive/2008/09/25/clean-build-server-with-mstest-fail.aspx
http://aspadvice.com/blogs/ssmith/archive/2008/03/18/Continuous-Integration-Setup-with-MSTest.aspx
This person is doing MSTest with CC.NET, so it might be helpful:
http://testearly.findtechblogs.com/default.asp?item=630602
In general, this is a main reason why many people choose something like NUnit, xUnit.NET or MbUnit over MSTest.
If you use MSTEST You will have to put that edition on the build server. To cut a long story short youd be better off changing the testing framework the developer is using from MStest to Nunit.
Its a much lighter solution.
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We have Team Foundation Server 2013 installed with Visual Studio Professional 2015 and I've been able to get continuous integration builds working using the TfvcTemplate.12.xaml build process template and the "/tv:14.0" MSBuild argument. However, I can't seem to find a way to tell TFS to use the 2015 Unit Test suite.
This post Build VS 2015 Solution w/ Unit Tests on TFS 2013 Team Build worked around the problem by installing VS 2013 on the build server, but that means that the build server would use the 2013 testing framework rather than the version used by the developer.
Another option is to use an older build process template that uses MSTest, which supports the "ToolPath" parameter, but MSTest appears to be deprecated (MSTest V2). BTW, I tried using the MSTest V2 NuGet packages, but that didn't have any effect on the framework used by TFS, which made sense once I thought about it.
I assume that there should be some way to tie in a third-party testing framework, but the examples I've found use the older build process template.
Has anyone else found a solution for this?
If you need your test agent or test controller to work with TFS 2013,
use Agents for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 and
configure the test controller.
Source Link: Install and configure test agents
This is the official recommended practices, we don't suggest you to use some third-party testing framework for handling your situation (not sure if there were).
Besides just as MrHinsh commented, we encourage you to move to new web-based build system which is more excellent. For the detail benefit of VNext builds, you could refer to this article Why You Should Switch to Build VNext
My code has NUnit tests. My colleague is able to run the tests from within Visual Studio on their desktop, however I can't run them on mine. When I try to use Test Explorer and "Run All", it just builds the project. Other options, such as Run Tests and Debug Tests also give the same result.
I have NUnit referenced in my project, why can't I run the tests from within Visual Studio?
Out of the box, Visual Studio doesn't have support for running tests built for the NUnit framework. As has been said in the the comments, your colleague probably has some kind of add-in like Resharper installed which adds in support for running Nunit tests.
If you don't have a license for whatever tool they're using, then you can still have visual studio integrated support for running/debugging NUnit tests by installing the NUnit Test Adapter. This is a free plugin that you can install into your solution via NuGet.
He may also be running the MS test adapter which you can get from the nunit site
Has anyone managed to run unit tests created with vs2010 on an android device? Is there any other solution to unit testing android applications when using monodrod?
You could check out the Andr.Unit library, which provides a runner for NUnit tests that can run either in the emulator or on an Android device. There is also the monodroid-unittest library that provides support for Visual Studio tests.
Is there a way to create unit tests that can be run with the Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework as well as NUnit? I personally prefer the Visual Studio one, but the build server I am using only does NUnit, so I would like to support both if possible.
EDIT: To clarify, I would like to run my own tests using Visual Studio (without add-ons or extensions), but other collegues would like to use NUnit, and the build server needs NUnit. I cannot change anything except the code, so I thought there would be an easy way to satisfy everyone, but its looking to be a bit of a challenge :)
Sounds like you need a Visual Studio test runner. If you install Gallio, it will use VS test runner to run any kind of unit tests(xUnit, nUnit, MBUnit). Also Resharper and CodeRush have their own test runners.
Here is one way to do that using precompiler directives and aliases via the "using" keyword
JustCode has a unit test runner that can run tests written using xUnit, NUnit, MbUnit, or Visual Studio Unit Testing Framework. You can see it in action here
You can write framework agnostic asserts using a library called Should. It also has a very nice fluent syntax which can be used if you like fluent interfaces. I had a blog post related to the same.
http://nileshgule.blogspot.com/2010/11/use-should-assertion-library-to-write.html
Visual Studio 2010 offers a lot of comfortable tools for unit testing via its built in test runner. Unfortunately we can't use MSTest for our unmanaged c++ codebase. Is it possible to switch from MSTest to e.g. Google.Test and have it integrated with the built in Visual Studio test runner?
Thanks in advance!
I have not seen anyway to integrate another unit testing framework into the VS test runner.
You might look at some VS add-in test runners, testdriven.net and gallio are two.
Kindness,
Dan
It's possible to use gtest (google test) in VS2010 and have it integrated with the IDE thanks to the extension: GoogleTestAddin
You can be interested by this similar thread: Viewing Google Test results within Visual Studio