I need to run mstest from the command line - where in the world is this exe located? Can anyone give me a clue?
Edit: I only have Visual Studio 2010 installed
A:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE
If people only knew that Windows can search for files...
You can simply open up Visual Studio's command line prompt to include that directory in the PATH. Take a look at the start menu entry "Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt".
AndiDog
2010-03-03 22:29:08
It is not there for me. Of course I only have VS 2010 installed...It's not under Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0 either.
George Mauer
2010-03-03 22:31:03
@George Mauer: I don't about VS 2010, but you could simply run a search for the file. And I'm sure mstest is still available in VS 2010's command line prompt.
AndiDog
2010-03-03 22:34:22
+6
A:
for %x in (mstest.exe) do @echo.%~dp$PATH:x
from the Visual Studio Command Prompt is your friend. For me it's in
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\
Joey
2010-03-03 22:29:39
Not really; crazy is the stuff that isn't directly documented. This is fairly standard, just see `help for`.
Joey
2010-03-03 22:35:32
+1
A:
If you can't find it, try searching like this:
"%VS90COMNTOOLS%\..\IDE\MSTest.exe"
Randy Minder
2010-03-03 22:29:56
A:
My automated test scripts uses:
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe"
The full command I use is:
"%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe" /testcontainer:[PathToTestDll] /resultsfile:[TrxOutputPath]
Alan Jackson
2010-03-03 22:30:44
A:
If you run a visual studio commmand prompt before you run your scripts -- which should be doable in most situations -- you can run %VSINSTALLDIR\Common7\IDE\mstest -- this means that you can move with the version of VS, and not have to react to director changes if users install in a different directory.
dhopton
2010-03-04 17:38:37
A:
I stumbled across this post because I'm trying to automate some web tests.
You can run >mstest /TestContainer:some.webtest from the visual studio command prompt, sure - but when you slap that in a batch file the command prompt that's executed by default doesn't have the visual studio tools included.
You can search for mstest.exe, but that location might not be the same across machine, so it's unwise to hardcode in c:\
Rany Miller's answer was god's send to me (thanks!) - he suggested "%VS90COMNTOOLS%\..\IDE\MSTest.exe"
But that doesn't work if you have VS 2010. Just replace the 90 with 100. My batch file, that I can schedule as a task to run nightly, looks like this:
SET SOURCEe=c:\myTestProjectFolder\
CD %SOURCE%
"%VS100COMNTOOLS%..\IDE\mstest.exe" /TestContainer:some.webtest
Dave
2010-10-14 23:53:08