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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 99478

How can I add a unit test for a program using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting, but without the aid of Visual Studio?

I am learning how to use unit test offered by Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.

However the tutorials I found are all how to create unit test in Visual Studio IDE. I am not familiar with Visual Studio IDE yet, and think that it distracts me away from understanding how to create and use Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.

So

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 203

Answers (1)

John Koerner
John Koerner

Reputation: 38087

Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting provides attributes you can use on your classes and methods to indicate they are tests.

You could simply create a class library and add a reference to Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting and your code to be tested. On each class that is a test container, you add the TestClass attribute and every method within that class that is a test, you would add the TestMethod attribute.

Compile that DLL and you can execute the tests from the command line using vstest.console.exe, which is usually located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\ide\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe. The command line parameters for vstest.consol.exe are well documented.

Upvotes: 4

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