Before I start, I've tried all suggestions from the following and none work:
Integration testing ASP.NET Core with .NET Framework - can't find deps.json
https://zimmergren.net/unable-to-find-deps-json-dotnet-azure-devops/
So I'm trying to write some integration tests for dotnet 6. However, my WebApplicationFactory throws the following error:
System.InvalidOperationException: Can't find
'/repos/subscription-info-api/tests/SubscriptionInfoApi.Tests.Integration/bin/Debug/net6.0/...
System.InvalidOperationException Can't find
'/repos/subscription-info-api/tests/SubscriptionInfoApi.Tests.Integration/bin/Debug/net6.0/testhost.deps.json'.
This file is required for functional tests to run properly. There
should be a copy of the file on your source project bin folder. If
that is not the case, make sure that the property
PreserveCompilationContext is set to true on your project file. E.g
'true'. For
functional tests to work they need to either run from the build output
folder or the testhost.deps.json file from your application's output
directory must be copied to the folder where the tests are running on.
A common cause for this error is having shadow copying enabled when
the tests run. at
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing.WebApplicationFactory1.EnsureDepsFile() at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing.WebApplicationFactory1.EnsureServer()
at
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing.WebApplicationFactory1.CreateDefaultClient(DelegatingHandler[] handlers) at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing.WebApplicationFactory1.CreateDefaultClient(Uri
baseAddress, DelegatingHandler[] handlers) at
Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing.WebApplicationFactory1.CreateClient(WebApplicationFactoryClientOptions options) at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing.WebApplicationFactory1.CreateClient()
at SubscriptionInfoApi.Tests.Integration.UnitTest1.Test1() in
/repos/subscription-info-api/tests/SubscriptionInfoApi.Tests.Integration/UnitTest1.cs:line
14 at SubscriptionInfoApi.Tests.Integration.UnitTest1.Test1() in
/repos/subscription-info-api/tests/SubscriptionInfoApi.Tests.Integration/UnitTest1.cs:line
16 at
Xunit.Sdk.TestInvoker1.<>c__DisplayClass48_0.<<InvokeTestMethodAsync>b__1>d.MoveNext() in /_/src/xunit.execution/Sdk/Frameworks/Runners/TestInvoker.cs:line 264 --- End of stack trace from previous location --- at Xunit.Sdk.ExecutionTimer.AggregateAsync(Func1 asyncAction) in
//src/xunit.execution/Sdk/Frameworks/ExecutionTimer.cs:line 48 at
Xunit.Sdk.ExceptionAggregator.RunAsync(Func`1 code) in
//src/xunit.core/Sdk/ExceptionAggregator.cs:line 90
My actual test code is extremely simple:
[Fact]
public async Task Test1()
{
await using var app = new WebApplicationFactory<Program>();
using var client = app.CreateClient();
var res = await (await client.GetAsync("/alive-test")).Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
Assert.Equal("Alive!", res);
}
As per the suggestions, I've made sure I'm directly referencing Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Testing -> 6.0.0 in my integration tests project. I've also tried the various tweaks to the .csproj files that were suggested but nothing seems to be working.
I'm stuck for things to try to debug this further, any ideas?
You are probably targeting the wrong namespace for Program in your test file (like I was).
I had to add the following at the end of my Program.cs file (last line) to make it visible to my test projects needing it:
public partial class Program { }
An example can be found here: minimal api testing example
I had the same problem, although for an entirely different reason.
I am using .net 6 but I deliberately chose to use an implementation that actually has a Program.cs file.
When I copied the code from the official MS integration test guide, I let VS pull in all the dependencies. The dependency used to resolve the Program.cs was not my own (PersonalSite for the sake of this answer), but one of MS's own implementation:
A small error on my part, sure, but maybe I can help somebody out.
For those who actually need the partial class implementation gimmick, the MS integ test guide I linked lists guidelines to do just that.
FWIW there is another approach that works as well (which doesn't require modifying code).
In your app's .csproj file add the following (Assuming your test project is called 'Tests'):
<ItemGroup>
<InternalsVisibleTo Include="Tests" />
</ItemGroup>
This allows your Tests project to see your Program.cs file.
change your Program class access specifier in your api from internal to Public
So I have this really simple test:
[TestMethod]
public void CheckAllParametersExist()
{
try
{
new ParametersService().Get();
Assert.IsTrue(true);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
Assert.Fail(ex.Message);
}
}
ParametersService().Get() runs through a parameters class finding all the properties and tries to populate them with values from a database. Occasionally when we release the website we might forget to publish some values, so I wanted a unit test in Bamboo to identify any parameters we may have missed.
To the crux of my problem: In Visual Studio 2017 the unit test passes fine. With MSTest is fails with:
Assert.Fail failed. The type initializer for 'System.Data.Entity.Internal.AppConfig' threw an exception.
Looking this particular error up it looks like I've got the wrong or mixed versions of EntityFramework. Having tried to fix this myself I have removed Entity framework from the Tests project nuget and app.config, then under the solution I consolidated the EntityFramework nuget and included Tests project again, still the same error. App.config shows version 6.0.0.0, nuget has installed 6.2.0
I am stuck, if anyone can suggest any solutions or identify any reasons why I might be seeing this problem I would be greatful.
Fyi: I am running MSTest with /testcontainer:tests.dll in the Tests project bin output debug folder.
So it turns out the problem was with the App.Config. The problem is that we have some sections of the configuration loaded from external files. In this case connection strings. In VS it loads the config file for connections strings just fine. In MSTest it copies the DLLs to another folder but doesn't include the folders/config files.
Also MSTest has now been retired, as of VS2013 we should be using VsTest.console, however Bamboo hasn't caught up with that yet.
My situation is similar to user2768132's question (VS2010 pro not able to start Moles host), however, I have a couple differences. I also attempted the suggestion by SouthShoreAK but it didn't resolve my problem. Pardon the similar post.
I'm new to this project at work as well as Moles so I might be missing something simple/obvious. We are also using Moles framework to write unit test cases but are not able to either debug or run a unit test that involves Moling a public static class.
System - Win-7 Professional SP1
.NET - .NET v4.0.30319 SP1 Rel
VS - VS2010 Professional v10.0.40219.1
Moles - v0.94.51023.0
The solution builds successfully. The 6 simple unit tests (i.e. not Moling static classes) pass but the one unit test that requires Moles to deal with a static class aborts.
Error for the aborted test:
Error 3/26/2014 2:26:06 PM System.InvalidOperationException: Could not start Moles host. Please review the Test Run Errors for more information.
at Microsoft.Moles.VsHost.Agent.HostTestAdapterDriver.EnsureHostAdapter()
at Microsoft.Moles.VsHost.Agent.HostTestAdapterDriver.Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.Execution.IBaseAdapter.Run(ITestElement testElement, ITestContext testContext)
at Microsoft.Moles.VsHost.Agent.MolesAgentAdapter.Run(ITestElement testElement, ITestContext testContext)
My fuslogvw was empty and did not identify any errors during assembly loading.
I found the same blog as user2768132 that mentioned removing the .exe.config file from privateassemblies folder under VS2010 IDE folder. I did that and it didn't fix my problem either.
I believe the tests are 32 bit. With that said, I attempted SouthShoreAK's suggestion of editing the test settings to 64 bit and adding the bitness line to the bottom of the AssemblyInfo.cs file. Unfortunately, that didn't solve my problem either. The simple tests that originally passed would fail and the unit test requiring Moles would error saying that Moles cannot be loaded because the key 'Moles' cannot be found. I undid these changes and I'm back to my starting point.
Anyone have any ideas/suggestions?
Thanks,
Steve
Answer was to make sure the "Platform target" parameter was set to x86 in the Build tab of the test project's Properties.
We use unit test to test a component which is using Autofac to inject all the dependencies and instanciate objects. We use auto section in the configue file for the configuration. The MSTest runs very well within Visual Studio and through command line.
However, after we put the unit test to run through the MSTestRunner plugin within Jenkins for continutes build purpose, the following exception is through out:
"System.ArgumentException: The configuration section 'autofac' could not be read. at Autofac.Configuration.ConfigurationSettingsReader..ctor(String sectionName) "
This is a similar issues raised before and replied as have been fixed already.
The autofac version we are using is 2.6.3.862.
Thanks
I have a c# solution with the following structure:
mySolution
myProject
myProject.MSTests
References
Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.UnitTestFramework
sutMSTests.cs
sutMSTests.cs:
[TestClass()]
public class sutMSTests
{
[TestMethod]
public void MyTest0()
{
Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.Assert.AreEqual(4, 2 + 2);
}
}
When I try to run the tests via Test, Run, All Tests In Solution, I get the following on the VS2008 status line:
No tests are run because no tests are loaded or the selected tests are disabled.
Test, Windows, Test View shows no tests.
Note: I created the tests manually (works for xUnit.net) instead of using Microsoft's wizards.
I've compared my hand created MSTest setup to the setup another test that I generated using the wizard and they appear to be sufficiently similar.
Question: What are the most likely causes of the error message above?
Edit 2010-02-25: More information:
I right clicked the Solution Items folder, and choose Add, New Project, type Test Projects,Test Documents::Visual Studio Test Project template.
The new project's default do nothing test "TestMethod1" was detected and passed.
However, my test did not show up ... so I copied and pasted my test method into the default test test project "TestProject1".
My test was detected in "TestProject" BUT not in its original location.
I closely compared the files, organization, and settings of "TestProject1" with my hand created test project.
At this point, I am guessing that some setting gets made by the Visual Studio Test Project template that is not easily detectable.
imo, it should be just as easy to create a test project by hand as it is to create one with the Visual Studio Test Project template.
please note: I'm not saying that I'm against using the Visual Studio Test Project template; for me, I like to understand what's behind the curtain since this makes me imho a much better programmer.
Another one for the googlers - this one turned out to be my problem, and it's embarrassingly boneheaded of me. Make sure that your test project is set to build in whatever solution configuration you're using. If the test assembly isn't being built, VS won't be able to find any tests in the non-existent assembly, and you'll bang your head against the wall for a while :-)
Possibly a bit late, but this question googles up well, I thought I'd throw some crumbs in for future googlers.
Bryan Cook suggests checking the ProjectTypeGuids in his blog post about Manually creating a MS Test Project. Apparently the magic GUIDs you need are {3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC} for c# and {3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB};{F184B08F-C81C-45F6-A57F-5ABD9991F28F} for VB. See his blog post for more details.
In case the blog post ever goes away you need to add the following element in the main property group in the csproj file:
<ProjectTypeGuids>{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>
Another idea for the Googlers out there. My problem was trying to get ignored tests running again. Same MS error message occurs if you remove the Ignore label. Does not automatically re-enable the test. This article takes you through the last step. http://richallen.blogspot.com/2008/05/ms-test-re-enabling-ignored-tests.html
The fix is simple, even though it shouldn't be needed, if Visual Studio worked as it should.
To sum up what others have contributed, particularly in this article, here's what ultimately worked for me:
Use the Configuration Manager to make sure your test project is selected to build in whatever configuration and platform you're using (ex: configuration=Debug and platform=x86)
Make sure your method belongs to a [TestClass] and that it's both marked [TestMethod], and NOT using the attribute [Ignore]
Use Test View to find your test.
Open your Properties window (F4), and make sure your test is enabled
The original poster did do this, but I arrived here after not having done this:
Be sure that [TestClass] is declared at the top, public in scope:
namespace XYZ.API.Repository.Tests
{
[TestClass()]
public class ClientTests
{
I was receiving the same message and it turned out to be that I had my unit test project on a network drive. Once I moved it local it ran fine. Just something to try if you get this error.
John
I've just manually done this:
Created a new C# class library project with the following code:
namespace SO_Answer
{
public class Class1
{
public void Test()
{
var k = "Hello";
}
}
}
Saved the project and then went to 'File->Add->New Project' and chose 'Test Project'. After VS created the unit test project, I added a reference to the class library project I created earlier.
In my test I have this code:
namespace Unit_Test
{
/// <summary>
/// Summary description for UnitTest1
/// </summary>
[TestClass]
public class UnitTest1
{
/// <summary>
///Gets or sets the test context which provides
///information about and functionality for the current test run.
///</summary>
public TestContext TestContext { get; set; }
#region Additional test attributes
// You can use the following additional attributes as you write your tests:
// Use ClassInitialize to run code before running the first test in the class
// [ClassInitialize()]
// public static void MyClassInitialize(TestContext testContext) { }
// Use ClassCleanup to run code after all tests in a class have run
// [ClassCleanup()]
// public static void MyClassCleanup() { }
// Use TestInitialize to run code before running each test
// [TestInitialize()]
// public void MyTestInitialize() { }
// Use TestCleanup to run code after each test has run
// [TestCleanup()]
// public void MyTestCleanup() { }
#endregion
/// <summary>
/// The test method 1.
/// </summary>
[TestMethod]
public void TestMethod1()
{
var f = new Class1();
}
}
}
The only code I added was the a using statement and the var f = new Class1(); statement. Looking at the MSTest runner, I can see TestMethod1 appear.
I can't think of a reason why your unit tests are not being picked up. The only time I've had this is because I was using the MSTest runner to try and view NUnit tests by mistake. Try starting from scratch.
This could be another reason. Check whether the solution is running on 64bit. If so change it to x86.
This must be a bug and is an absolute pain especially as you have to reenable every single test method individually. However a bit iof lateral thinking produced a better solution - rename the test class and rebuild. Then rename it back. Seems to work.
Ooops - no it doesn't. Renaming the class works but when it's renamed back it reverts to the original settings.
The trick is to close down Visual Studio and delete the .vsmdi (visual studio test meta data) file. This will be regenrated.
When you run into this issue, in Visual Studio, you have to create a Test Project.
1. Select Test in Tool bar and choose "New Test". Create your project and at this point create your test method. It should work after this point.
For posterity: I just found that marking tests as static made them silently fail to appear in the test list. Apparently that isn't allowed.
None of the other answers worked for me. I kept getting the following message in the output window:
------ Discover test started ------
========== Discover test finished: 2 found (0:00:00.1310428) ==========
No tests found to run.
In my case, the problem only occurred after I created a new configuration called 0-Local. I had to add <DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols to the relevant section of my csproj file, so it looks like this:
<PropertyGroup Condition="'$(Configuration)|$(Platform)' == '0-Local|AnyCPU'">
<DebugSymbols>true</DebugSymbols>
<OutputPath>bin\0-Local\</OutputPath>
</PropertyGroup>
Do you have a VSMDI file in your solution? I believe this file is required (NOT VERIFIED).
this is typical problem i have faced too. but the easiest solution I followed as my own is...just to build the project once and rebuild it again. so that you can resolve it.
Had this same issue but reading over the previous answers, everything looked good.
In my case, I had just run the test suite made a small change, built the solution and tried to run the test. No go. I tried building a couple more times and looking for problems other people had tried. Still no go.
I hit enter in one of my test methods to add a new and hit F6 to build the solution and clicked run Unit Tests.
Bingo! Everything ran smoothly.
I was making use of a public TestContext TestContext method to write to the test output and changed the scope to private. This made every test not discoverable. Changing it back to public helped.
Another one for googlers using NUnit, especially those who have migrated from MS Unit test to NUnit. Please remove the project type Guids that are identifying the project as MS Test project from the project file.
<ProjectTypeGuids>{3AC096D0-A1C2-E12C-1390-A8335801FDAB};{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}</ProjectTypeGuids>
If your code is CLI (managed c++) and your test class inherits from an abstract base class, make sure that your test class implements the base's pure virtual method.
if you didn't implement it, you may see the "no tests found to run" message.