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Calling MsTest from MsBuild with multiple test containers

Learnt something new with MsTest today… in the scripts I have for our projects we run the tests using MsTest from the command line as follows:

 

<Exec Command='"$(VS80COMNTOOLS)..\IDE\mstest.exe" /testcontainer:Acme\Group\BizTalk\Utilities\Tests\bin\$(ConfigurationName)\Acme.Group.BizTalk.Utilities.Tests.dll /runconfig:localtestrun.testrunconfig' />

 

<Exec Command='"$(VS80COMNTOOLS)..\IDE\mstest.exe" /testcontainer:Acme\Group\BizTalk\PipelineComponents\Tests\bin\$(ConfigurationName)\Acme.Group.BizTalk.PipelineComponents.Tests.dll /runconfig:localtestrun.testrunconfig' />

 

<Exec Command='"$(VS80COMNTOOLS)..\IDE\mstest.exe" /testcontainer:Acme\Group\BizTalk\Build\Tests\bin\$(ConfigurationName)\Acme.Group.BizTalk.Build.Tests.dll /runconfig:localtestrun.testrunconfig' />

 

<Exec Command='"$(VS80COMNTOOLS)..\IDE\mstest.exe" /testcontainer:Acme\Group\BizTalk\Testing\Tests\bin\$(ConfigurationName)\Acme.Group.BizTalk.Testing.Tests.dll /runconfig:localtestrun.testrunconfig' />

 

This will run out 4 test assemblies fine.  Ok so now I was interested in the code coverage aspect and getting the report into CruiseControl (more on this later) and I found a couple of things. 

 

1.             Each assembly is run completely seperately in different folders when it is tested

 

2.             There are 4 coverage reports, 1 for each assembly

 

This is really what you would expect, but in order to run the tests and get just one coverage file I needed to change the way I was calling MsTest.  Basically thanks to my collegue Callum Hibbert (who I always ask if I have a problem with anything Build or TFS related) I found that when calling MsTest you can specify multiple test containers an example of which would be as follows:

 

 <Exec Command='"$(VS80COMNTOOLS)..\IDE\mstest.exe" /testcontainer:Acme\Group\BizTalk\Utilities\Tests\bin\$(ConfigurationName)\Acme.Group.BizTalk.Utilities.Tests.dll /testcontainer:Acme\Group\BizTalk\PipelineComponents\Tests\bin\$(ConfigurationName)\Acme.Group.BizTalk.PipelineComponents.Tests.dll /runconfig:localtestrun.testrunconfig' />

 

(ive only specified 2 here to keep the example simpler but you can supply 4 in the same way)

 

This means when I now run the reports I have 1 folder containing all of the test stuff and also 1 test coverage file.

[As a side note on this we done have Team Suite or Team Test to use a test list]

 

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Print | posted on Friday, April 27, 2007 10:13 AM | Filed Under [ BizTalk .net 2 MsBuild ]

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# re: Calling MsTest from MsBuild with multiple test containers

A nice explanation. Thanks a lot, this was just what I needed.
12/14/2010 4:25 AM | Nacho
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# re: Calling MsTest from MsBuild with multiple test containers

I've ran into this problem before as well, though during building and not automated test execution. My problem was the TFS build working directory where the skeleton of my project was being recreated for the build process was left as the default "$(Temp)\$(BuildDefinitionPath)". I solved this by moving it to just "d:\build".
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# re: Calling MsTest from MsBuild with multiple test containers

looks very similar to what we are doing – a lot of complexity in the build file that could be removed if this feature is implemented.
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This post is written in such a way that a reader that is very new to this subject will be able easily to understand all bits and pieces of it. That exactly what I experienced when I was reading it.
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