The right way of calling MSTest in a TFS build script

· October 30, 2008

TFS   MSBuild   TDD

OK - sometimes it just to confess - I took a chance, or didn’t know what I was doing - call it what you want.

In TFS Build-scripts there are a much nicer way of calling MSTest than the Exec-task as I suggested. There is already a task for it, called TestToolsTask. With this task you can much easier reach all the properties you need. And it even contains some undocumented features such as the TestContainer-property.

Here is my updated version on how to call the task:

<TestToolsTask   TestContainers="$(BinariesRoot)\Debug\Company.Service.Host.Test.Integration.dll"
          BuildFlavor="%(ConfigurationToBuild.FlavorToBuild)"
          Platform="%(ConfigurationToBuild.PlatformToBuild)"
          PublishServer="$(TeamFoundationServerUrl)"
          PublishBuild="$(BuildNumber)"
          PathToResultsFilesRoot="$(TestResultsRoot)\..\IntegrationTestResults"
          TeamProject="Betalningsplattformen2"
          ContinueOnError="true" />

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