VSTS not building Test.dll in Release

Question

I have a ASP.NET Core 2.x application with three projects

• App.dll
• App.BL.dll
• App.Tests.dll

The Tests project references the other projects, but is not referenced by the others of course.

I get the error:

[warning]No test assemblies found matching the pattern: \release*test*.dll,!\obj**,**\App.Tests.dll.

When VSTS builds the Release version, the agent work folder doesn't contain the App.Tests.dll so the VSTS Test runner doesn't run, there is no dll to run on.

Here is a picture of the agent build folder. No App.Test.dll

How can I get the agent to build the App.Tests.dll ?

Answer 1

You can use .NET Core task with 'test' command instead. It's a simpler way.

.NET Core task