I have a placeholder test setup with cmake and I'm using the Visual Studio (2017) integration. How can I run a test in verbose mode from within VS?
Test Explorer
After you run the test, VS shows an "Output" button in the task explorer where you can see all the test outputs.
Related
Visual Studio 2019 (and most Visual Studios that I've worked with that have a Test Explorer) have a 'Test All' button.
I'm curious as to what the CLI-equivalent command is run when this is clicked (including all options fed to this command). For example, dotnet test .... I'm sure the --no-build option is not specified, as clicking this button runs a build. Does anyone know what the entire command that is run is?
If you are looking to replicate the function of the Test Explorer at the command line then for Visual Studio on Windows, "VSTest.Console.exe is the command-line tool to run tests." Within Testing tools in Visual Studio, see Run tests from the command line.
The IDE, however, is not spawning new vstest.console processes on every test run. It is 're-using' existing test runner instances via an API/protocol.
I have a Visual Studio project which passes my tests when I run them in the IDE.
When I try to run the same tests using VCTest.Console some of the tests fail even though they should pass.
I run the command prompt by running Deverloper Command Prompt for VS 2022 as admin and then navigate to my .dll test files and use the command: VSTest.Console file.dll
I am not able to run the code runner in VSC (Visual studio Code).
I have class library project which reads word document files. and I have created 30 unit cases scenarios for it. When I run the unit test using visual studio IDE it runs perfectly and all the test cases get "Success", However when I use Visual Studio Command Prompt and test it, some of the test cases get failed. I would appreciate if you guys can provide me some hint in this regard.
To test my solution in Command Prompts I type: "MSTest /testcontainer:mysolutiontest.dll"
If you are running VS2012 or later, use vstest.console.exe:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
12.0\Common7\ide\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe"
PathToYour.dll /logger:trx
You'll also probably want to use a .runsettings file to specify the TargetPlatform and ResultsDirectory, which would then use a command line like this:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
12.0\Common7\ide\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe"
PathToYour.dll /logger:trx
/settings:PathToYour.runsettings
I would like to leverage visual studio code coverage ability out side Visual Studio as diagnostic test on environment without a Visual Studio instance on it.
I could not grab a tutorial or guideline on how it is done.
So how it can be done?
Even guidelines are good.
In Visual Studio 2012 or newer you can use the vstest.console.exe to invoke tests to gather code coverage. the /enableCodeCoverage commandline switch enables it.
You can gather coverage from a commandline using the older vsperfcmd tool as well. This requires you to have at least a Visual Studio Test Agent installed on the machine. This is no full Visual Studio installation, but it contains teh components required to run tests and gather coverage details.
How to setup the VsPerfCmd tool can be found here in this MSDN post. I copied the steps:
I assume you want code coverage on MyApp.exe
Open Visual studio command prompt
Add %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10\Team Tools\Performance Tools to the path
set path=%path%;'%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 10\Team Tools\Performance Tools'
CD to the folder that contains MyApp.exe
Instrument MyApp.exe for coverage:
vsinstr -coverage MyApp.exe
Start the coverage monitor to collect code coverage data:
vsperfcmd -start:coverage -output:MyApp.coverage
Run the instrumented MyApp.exe:
MyApp.exe
Shut down the monitor once MyApp.exe is done:
vsperfcmd -shutdown
Open the MyApp.coverage file in Visual Studio
With the Test Agent installed on the machine, you can also trigger a test run from Visual Studio (even if it is installed on a different machine).