How do I run (unit) tests in different folders/projects separately in Visual Studio?

Answer 1

This is a bit of fiddly solution, but you could configure some external tools for each of group of tests you want to run. I'm not sure if you'll be able to launch the ReSharper test runner this way, but you can run the console version of nunit. Once you have of those tools setup, you can assigned keyboard shortcuts to the commands "Tools.ExternalCommand1", "Tools.ExternalCommand2", etc.

This wont really scale very well, and it's awkward to change - but it will give you keyboard shortcuts for running your tests. It does feel like there should be a much simpler way of doing this.

Answer 2

I actually found kind of a solution for this on my own by using keyboard command bound to a macro. The macro was recorded from the menu Tools>Macros>Record TemporaryMacro. While recording I selected my [Tests] folder and ran ReSharpers UnitTest.ContextRun. This resulted in the following macro,

Sub TemporaryMacro()
    DTE.Windows.Item(Constants.vsWindowKindSolutionExplorer).Activate
    DTE.ActiveWindow.Object.GetItem("TestUnitTest\Tests").Select(vsUISelectionType.vsUISelectionTypeSelect)
    DTE.ExecuteCommand("ReSharper.UnitTest_ContextRun")
End Sub

which was then bound to it's own keyboard command in Tools>Options>Environment>Keyboard.

However, what would be even more awesome is a more general solution where I can configure exactly which projects/folders/classes to run and when. For example by the means of an xml file. This could then easily be checked in to version control and distributed to everyone who works with the project.

Answer 3

You can use a VS macro to parse the XML file and then call nunit.exe with the /fixture command line argument to specify which classes to run or generate a selection save file and run nunit using that.

Answer 4

I have never used this but maybe it could help....

http://www.codeplex.com/VS2008UnitTestGUI

"Project Description This project is about running all unit test inside multiple .NET Unit tests assembly coded with Visual Studio 2008."