How can I set up unit tests to run for different environments?

Question

I'm considering running unit tests for my Visual Studio 2010 projects on our build server at build time. The problem is that when I'm working locally, I want to test against DEV, when building for QA, I want the tests to run against QA, when building/promoting for UAT/PROD... you get the picture.

I think VS 2010 might have support for per-environment configs. If so, does this apply for test projects also? If not, what are some alternatives?

thanks, Mark

Answer 1

I don't really have much experience with VS 2010, but there was no such functionality in VS 2008.

I usually have a msbuild script to build and run the tests of the solution. In your case I would have a step in the this script to set the correct configuration after the code was built and before the tests are run. I used XmlUpdate task from http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/ last time.