Separate Runners for .NET Test Frameworks

Eugene Petrenko

Have you already tried multiple runners in latest TeamCity 6.0 EAP builds? If you have, there’s no need to repeat that now you can split the build procedure into steps and add as many build runners to be invoked sequentially as you need, for instance, call a NAnt script before compiling VS solutions. Having this approach implemented, we decided to review existing .NET runners in TeamCity.

As you know, TeamCity provides bundled support of NUnit and MSTest. In previous versions you could configure running such tests within MSBuild and VS.Solution build runners. That was reasonably good and handy solution for everyone to run unit tests without writing a line of script/code. Nevertheless, we removed NUnit and MSTest options from these runners. Don’t worry! You’re not going to miss them. Instead, we’ve introduced separate NUnit and MSTest build runners which you can now add as a build step to your configuration.

If you previously used to run the tests by means of MSBuild and VS.Solution build runners, you probably won’t even notice the difference, because such build configurations will be just split into two build steps during upgrade.

But here goes nice news for those who combined NUnit tests with Rake runner, NAnt, or for some other reason had to pick up some convoluted way to pass test reports to TeamCity, like using TeamCity NUnit launcher from command line, or service messages, or TeamCity addin for NUnit, etc. Now you can forget about all those tricky configurations and relax. Just add one more runner.
Of course, all old approaches will still work, but will remain mostly for exceptional cases.

Enjoy!

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