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Andry
Andry

Reputation: 16845

Cannot properly run MSTest with arguments in Powershell

I am trying to run MSTest in Powershell. One of the options to pass is /testcontainer and it can be passed multiple times.

In my script I need to build the option string as I can have many test containers passed to the script, thus this is what I do:

param(
  [string[]] $TestContainers = @(
    'C:\Users\myuser\MyProject\test\Test1\bin\Debug\Test1.dll', 
    'C:\Users\myuser\MyProject\test\Test1\bin\Debug\Test2.dll', 
    'C:\Users\myuser\MyProject\test\Test1\bin\Debug\Test3.dll', 
    'C:\Users\myuser\MyProject\test\Test1\bin\Debug\Test4.dll'
  )
);

$TestContainersOptions = @();
foreach ($TestContainer in $TestContainers)
{
  $TestContainersOptions += "/testcontainer:'$TestContainer'";
}

$MSTestPath = "C:\Program...\MsTest.exe"

& $MSTestPath $TestContainersOptions;

When I run the script I get:

Microsoft (R) Test Execution Command Line Tool Version 14.0.23107.0 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

The given path's format is not supported. For switch syntax, type "MSTest /help"

What to do?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 594

Answers (1)

Mathias R. Jessen
Mathias R. Jessen

Reputation: 174425

Enclose each path in " (escape sequence for double-quotes is just two in a row, ""):

$TestContainersOptions = foreach ($TestContainer in $TestContainers)
{
    "/testcontainer:""$TestContainer"""
}

If you assign the output from the foreach loop directly to the variable (as shown above), you don't have to declare it as an array beforehand

Upvotes: 1

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