Visual Studio For Mac Unit Test

Visual Studio for Mac testing tools can help you and your team develop and sustain high standards of code excellence. Unit tests can be written and run using the Microsoft unit test framework (MSTest), xUnit, or NUnit. Running the Unit Tests using the Visual Studio for Mac IDE. When the compilation of the unit tests is complete, you will be presented with the outcome of each of the test results, which can be filtered by which were Successful Tests, Failed Tests, or Ignored Tests within the Test Results pane, as shown in the following screenshot.

In the current version of Visual Studio for Mac there is “Add file” template for xUnit Unit-Tests. Nice and easy. But how to run these tests? The problem is, that the default installation of Visual Studio for Mac does not discover these xUnit Tests even if you do a full rebuild.

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After searching a while I figured that one need to install the extension called “xUnit.NET 2 testing framework support” from the Extension Gallery.

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After that one need to restart Visual Studio for Mac and do a full rebuild. The tests will then show up in the “Unit Tests” pad.