How to extend the NUnit constraints
NUnit has a very rich and readable constraint set. Normally you don’t need to do anything. But, there are some cases where it would be nice to be able to tweak Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Unit Testing
VSIX based Test Adapters to be deprecated in Visual Studio for C# and Visual Basic to speed up testing
Test Adapters come in two flavors, VSIX based and Nuget based. The VSIX based are installed as extensions to Visual Studio and therefore will apply to all solutions you load, Continue Reading →
How to conditionally fail a build in a pull requests with TFS/VSTS
When your TFS/VSTS CI build is also used for a pull request, you often want to enable more checks before you let this go into the master (or any target) Continue Reading →
How to resolve cases of Visual Studio “No tests appearing”
The Visual Studio Test Explorer can be a bit picky about showing tests. There are multiple reasons for why they don’t always show up when you expect them to do, Continue Reading →
WrapThat.System : Wrappers for system.io to simplify unit testing
Introduction You have all seen it, you have all done it: Written code using the static methods from the System.IO namespace for handling directories and files. Or, you are maintaining Continue Reading →
How to control the selection of test runner in TFS/VSTS, making it work with x86/x64 selected targets
When you do test runs with the Test Explorer in Visual Studio, you can select to use either a x86 or a x64 test runner. Now, if you select to Continue Reading →
Fix for the ‘Could not find test executor’ issue with NUnit, XUnit and Chutzpah when using ReSharper in Visual Studio
This issue is resolved in the latest ReSharper release, version 8.2.0.2160, download here. The issue appears when using the Test Explorer to run tests in any of the frameworks mentioned Continue Reading →
How to exclude code from Code Coverage in Visual Studio unit testing using runsettings
Download: VS2012 Runsettingstemplate VS2013 Runsettingstemplate The VS2012/13 unit test feature can generate code coverage results. It can do so for (nearly) any type of adapter you choose to use, MSTest, Continue Reading →
Unit testing resources and articles for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013
The last year I have written three blog posts for the Microsoft MSDN ALM blog on unit testing. The posts focused on the new test explorer with its abilities to Continue Reading →