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MSTest and CruiseControl .NET

I have been trying to get Visual Studio 2005 Team Developer style unit tests working within CruiseControl.

The documention says it should work, but is a little scant as to the detail of how to do it. So now I have it all going I thought an example of the working ccnet.config file with some comments might help other people trying to get this going.

So the background is I have a VS.NET 2005 solution (My Sample.sln) with some projects in it. One of these is a Test Project (TestProject.csproj). This contains some test which can be run via the Test menu option is VS.NET.

CCNET.CONFIG

<project name="My Sample">
<!--Here you put any other project level settings-->
<!--the working directory is used for all relative file references-->
<workingDirectory>C:\projects\My Sample</workingDirectory>

<!--Normally you would have all your source control bits here-->

<tasks>
    <!--We use the Visual Studio build model, you could also use the MSBUILD-->
   <devenv>
            <solutionfile>"C:\projects\My Sample\My Sample.sln"</solutionfile>
            <configuration>Debug</configuration>
            <buildtype>Build</buildtype>
            <!--Comment out the project block so it build the whole solution-->
            <!--<project>MyProject</project>-->
            <executable>"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.com"</executable>
            <buildTimeoutSeconds>90</buildTimeoutSeconds>
     </devenv>

     <exec>
            <!--Call a batch file that contains del testResults.trx -->
            <!--this is required as MsTest will not create the file if it exists-->
            <!--this could be merged with the mstext action in a single batch file-->
            <executable>deleteTestLog.bat</executable>
            <baseDirectory>C:\projects\My Sample</baseDirectory>
            <buildArgs></buildArgs>
            <buildTimeoutSeconds>30</buildTimeoutSeconds>
      </exec>

      <exec>
            <!--Call mstest to run the tests contained in the TestProject -->
            <executable>C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\mstest.exe</executable>
            <baseDirectory>C:\projects\My Sample</baseDirectory>
            <!--testcontainer: points to the DLL that contains the tests -->
            <!--runconfig: points to solutions testrunconfig that is created by vs.net, list what test to run -->
            <!--resultsfile: normally the test run log is written to the uniquely named testresults directory  -->
            <!--                   this option causes a fixed name copy of the file to be written as well -->
            <buildArgs>/testcontainer:testproject\bin\debug\testproject.dll /runconfig:localtestrun.Testrunconfig /resultsfile:testResults.trx</buildArgs>
            <buildTimeoutSeconds>30</buildTimeoutSeconds>
      </exec>

</tasks>

<publishers>
         <!--to get the test results in the dashboard we have to merge the results XML file -->
         <!--the project working directory is used as the base path here -->
         <merge>
               <files>
                     <file>testResults.trx</file>
               </files>
         </merge>
         <!--this is the line I missed for ages, without it you get strange missing publisher log errors -->
         <xmllogger />
</publishers>

</project>
</cruisecontrol>

DASHBOARD.CONFIG

By default with CCNET build 1277 has the entry to display MSTest results in the summary. If you want the results on a separate menu item (like nUnit or FxCop) then the dashboard.config should contain the following bits

Published 14 June 2006 22:29 by Richard