Chapter 11 Generating .NET 2.0 Persistent Objects and Windows Applications

Running Visual Studio Test System Unit Tests

The Visual Studio Team System Team Test tools offer a number of ways to run tests, both from the Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE) and from a command prompt.

Steps To run tests in Visual Studio.NET 2005 IDE:

  1. Use the Test Manager or Test View window. You can also rerun tests from the Test Result window.
  2. In the Test Manager window, select tests by selecting the check boxes in the test's row, and then either click Run Tests on the Test Manager toolbar or right-click the selected tests and then click Run Checked Tests.
  3. In the Test View window, select the tests you want to run and then click Run Tests on the Test View toolbar, or right-click, and select Run Selection.

Steps To run tests from the command line:

  1. Open the Visual Studio command prompt
  2. Either navigate to your solution folder directory or, when you run the MSTest.exe program in step, specify a full or relative path to the metadata file or to the test container.
  3. Run the MSTest.exe program

 

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