How to profile a MSpec test - visual-studio-2013

I've run dotTrace and Visual Studio profiler against a MSpec test, but so far I haven't been able to get any information about the code that is being tested, only about the code of the test itself.
Is there a way to do this?
My guess is using lambdas for the Because clause may be the reason why the actual tested code doesn't show up.

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How do I save test results from Test Explorer in Visual Studio 2017?

I have an issue with Visual Studio 2017. I generally run a set of tests locally on my own computer using Test Explorer and using Microsoft's own Unit Testing tools in the Visual Studio library. This can take quite sometime. Problem is, if I close visual studio at any point, the results of these tests are lost forever: the pass, the fail, the output, everything.
I need a way to save the results of my tests in case this happens. I'd love it if VS didn't just wipe my test results like this.
I have to run many tests in different windows, using the command prompt to do this is incredibly laborious.
You can use the command line tool VSTest.Console.exe command-line options and save the output to file using /Logger: option.
It can be found under
(Visual-Studio-Directory)\(Version-Year)\Common7\IDE\Extensions\TestPlatform
Sample:
vstest.console.exe "C:\TestProjectFolder\TestProject.dll" --logger:trx
You can configure trace logging using a test settings file, documented here.

Test execution error in Visual Studio 2015 (worked in 2013)

We are in the process of upgrading from Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 to Visual Studio 2015 Update 1.
Our Solution has many tests and we use NUnit 2.6.4, along with the NUnit Test Adapter for NUnit 2.x.
When running these tests in Visual Studio 2013, they all run perfectly well.
However, when running in Visual Studio 2015 the first 200 odd tests run, then execution stops. I can then select the tests that have not yet run and successfully execute these. I have the latest ReSharper installed in both VS2013 and VS2015 and it happily executes all the tests.
We've been keeping test-coverage details for each release since the dawn of time, and from Visual Studio's test runner it shows me the number of blocks covered. But ReSharper shows us the number of statements covered. Slightly different values, but they'd mess up our charts.
When test execution fails, it creates a Dump file (it also creates some XML files that just seem to show what DLLs I've installed). I can open this and "debug" it, but it simply shows me a line of code that fails, and the call stack shows only [Managed Code], which means I can't identify the actual test that's causing the issue.
The fact that this works perfectly in VS2013 and in ReSharper running in VS2015 suggests that "it's not our fault", but whilst I'd like to think that, it doesn't help me fix this.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Griff
Tracked down the problem. We had one class in our Solution that implements IDispose and one of our Unit tests didn't dispose of that class, it just allowed it to go out of scope.
So because the Disposable object hadn't been disposed, the class' Finalizer hadn't been suppressed. The GC therefore called the Finalizer which in turn attempted to access another object that had also gone out of scope, resulting in an exception that crashed the Test Execution Runner.
Interesting that VS2015 running NUnit 2.x crashes, but the identical setup in VS2013 copes fine.
As an aside, when debugging the DUMP file (see above), I realized that the call stack was irrelevant, I just had to put in some defensive coding in the Finalizer.

Resharper 6 simply ignores all my tests

I have a solution with a lot of nunit tests in different projects. When I run resharpers testrunner, it finds all the tests. But when it comes to execution it simply marks them all as grey and silently completes.
How do I figure out whats wrong with the testrunner, and most importantly how do I get it to run my tests.
I have resharper 6 in visual studio 2008. My code is on a fileshare, and everything runs in a virtual machine.
Jetbrains has confirmed this to be a bug. That resharper wont run nunit tests located on a networkshare. They'll try to fix it in 6.1.
You can find the ticket here:
http://youtrack.jetbrains.net/issue/RSRP-275538

Debugging code that's being tested in Visual Studio 2010

I am having some problems with a given test, that I'd like to debug the code that is being tested, while the test runs.
Is this possible?
If yes, how can I just debug this one test? I can only see options for running or the whole solution, or the whole set of tests in the current context or all impacted tests. I'd like to just run this one test, if possible!
I'm running Visual Studio 2010.
Put a breakpoint in the test and run the test with debug - use the test explorer to select just that test and "run selected".
See this MSDN page (How to: Run Automated Tests from Microsoft Visual Studio).

Trying to get selenium to start up using MSTest when running tests in Visual Studio

I'm trying to run selenium web tests in Visual Studio using MSTest.
I have a selenium process class, a selenium runner class and a web dev test class, as in this article:
http://keithbloom.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/running-selenium-tests-in-visual-studio/
I get the command prompt opening and I can see the selenium startup messages when I debug. However the first time I call selenium.Open everything shuts down. The MSTest error is reference not set to instance of an object?
And when I try and run it with Resharper (using MSTest), obviously all the paths are wrong :(
And for some reason Resharper takes about 2 mins to start the test where as MSTest takes 5s?
Anyone have any idea how to get these tools to actually work together?
I use Selenium with C# and NUnit quite regularly. I don't use MSTest for my tests but they tend to run quite quickly.
I have put together a C#/NUnit/Selenium tutorial a while ago. The URL for the Tutorial is http://www.theautomatedtester.co.uk/seleniumtraining/selenium_csharp_nunit.htm. I have never tried to run it with Resharper or MSTest but it should work fine. Just need to change the method attributes to the relevant MSTest items.

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