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George Mauer
George Mauer

Reputation: 122072

Where is mstest.exe located?

I need to run mstest from the command line - where in the world is this exe located? Can anyone give me a clue?

Edit: I only have Visual Studio 2010 installed

Upvotes: 76

Views: 49731

Answers (9)

Dave Kennedy
Dave Kennedy

Reputation: 480

I stumbled across this post because I'm trying to automate some web tests.

You can run >mstest /TestContainer:some.webtest from the visual studio command prompt, sure - but when you slap that in a batch file the command prompt that's executed by default doesn't have the visual studio tools included.

You can search for mstest.exe, but that location might not be the same across machine, so it's unwise to hardcode in c:\

Rany Miller's answer was god's send to me (thanks!) - he suggested %VS90COMNTOOLS%\..\IDE\MSTest.exe

But that doesn't work if you have VS 2010. Just replace the 90 with 100. My batch file, that I can schedule as a task to run nightly, looks like this:

SET SOURCEe=c:\myTestProjectFolder\
CD %SOURCE%
"%VS100COMNTOOLS%..\IDE\mstest.exe" /TestContainer:some.webtest

Upvotes: 10

Randy Minder
Randy Minder

Reputation: 48402

If you can't find it, try searching like this:

%VS90COMNTOOLS%\..\IDE\MSTest.exe

Upvotes: 6

dwonisch
dwonisch

Reputation: 5785

Since Visual Studio 2012 (at least the express versions) MsTest.exe is called vstest.console.exe and can be found at

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe

Upvotes: 11

Loofer
Loofer

Reputation: 6965

Type

where mstest.exe

into a Visual Studio Command Prompt...

Upvotes: 50

Dominic Hopton
Dominic Hopton

Reputation: 7292

If you run a visual studio commmand prompt before you run your scripts -- which should be doable in most situations -- you can run %VSINSTALLDIR\Common7\IDE\mstest -- this means that you can move with the version of VS, and not have to react to director changes if users install in a different directory.

Upvotes: 2

Alan Jackson
Alan Jackson

Reputation: 6511

My automated test scripts uses:

"%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe"

The full command I use is:

"%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe"  /testcontainer:[PathToTestDll] /resultsfile:[TrxOutputPath]

Upvotes: 3

Asad
Asad

Reputation: 21928

"%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE

Upvotes: 1

Joey
Joey

Reputation: 354516

for %x in (mstest.exe) do @echo.%~dp$PATH:x

from the Visual Studio Command Prompt is your friend. For me it's in

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\

Upvotes: 91

AndiDog
AndiDog

Reputation: 70158

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE

If people only knew that Windows can search for files...

You can simply open up Visual Studio's command line prompt to include that directory in the PATH. Take a look at the start menu entry "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt".

Upvotes: -1

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