ReSharper 2023.3 Help

Execute tests and analyze results

ReSharper provides several ways to execute unit tests. Whichever way you choose, execution progress, test results, and output are displayed in the Unit Test Sessions window , coverage results are shown in the Unit Test Coverage window .

Different ways to run or debug unit tests

Start test execution

  • Use one of the ways to execute tests in the current document.

  • Use one of the ways to execute tests in the project/solution.

  • If there are existing unit test sessions, you can run or debug some or all tests in a session:

    • Select tests that you want to execute in the Unit Test Sessions window and click Run Unit Tests Run Unit Tests Control+T R/ Debug Unit Tests Debug Unit Tests Control+T D on the toolbar.

    • To run all tests in the session, click Run Current Session Run Current Session Control+T Y on the toolbar or alternatively, choose ReSharper | Unit Tests | Run Current Session from the main menu.

    • To keep automatically starting and running selected tests until one of the tests fails, expand the selector at the Run Unit Tests Run Unit Tests Control+T R button and choose Run Unit Tests Until Fail.

As tests are running in a unit test session, the execution progress is shown in the status bar under the toolbar of the Unit Test Sessions window and the progress icon is displayed next to the currently executing test. You can run multiple unit test sessions simultaneously. However, when you debug tests, only one test session can be executed at a time.

If necessary, you can enable the Track Running Test ThemedIcon.TrackRun.Screen.(Gray).png option on the toolbar. If it is on, the selection in the test tree switches automatically to the test that is currently running and the output panel always shows output of the current test during the execution.

You can also enable the Auto Scroll Output When Running Test ThemedIcon.ScrollToBottom.Screen.(Gray).png option to follow output of tests as they are running.

Stop test execution

  1. Click Stop Execution ThemedIcon.StopTest.Screen.(Gray).png on the toolbar to abort execution of the tests.

  2. ReSharper will send the signal to the test runner to stop execution. Depending on the test framework, the execution can be aborted immediately, or the runner may try to finish the current test and stop after that.

  3. If the test runner continues executing the current test, the Stop Execution icon changes to ThemedIcon.Abort.Screen.(Gray).png. You can click it again to force quit the test runner process.

If necessary, you can always re-run the tests that you executed last by clicking Repeat Previous Run ThemedIcon.Rerun.Screen.(Gray).png on the toolbar, pressing Control+T T or choosing ReSharper | Unit Tests | Repeat Previous Run from the menu.

Analyze execution results and output

When the execution is over, the results are visualized in the Unit Test Sessions window.

ReSharper: Unit test sessions

The output pane (which you can place on the right or at the bottom using the Show Output Show Output button on the toolbar) displays output of the selected test. If the test is failed, ReSharper also adds short information on the failure and/or displays the stack trace of an exception. You can use clickable links in the output pane to navigate directly to types and methods involved with the failure. If the output displays a link to a file that does not belong to the solution, you can click this link to open the file in an external application associated with the corresponding file type or Ctrl-click to open it in Visual Studio.

If you want to inspect specific stack trace later, press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+E or click Show Stack Trace in a new window ThemedIcon.StackTraceExplorerToolWindow.Screen.(Gray).png on the toolbar to open the stack trace in a new tab of the Stack Trace Explorer window.

By default, ReSharper wraps long lines in the output according to the current width of the output area. If necessary, you choose not to wrap long lines by clearing the Wrap long lines in Unit Test Session output checkbox on the Tools | Unit Testing page of ReSharper options .

Use the Group by selector on the toolbar to change grouping of the tests — you can either choose one of the predefined grouping modes in the upper part of the selector, such as Test Hierarchy, Project Structure, and so on, or use the lower part of the selector to choose a custom set of grouping properties.

On the status bar, you can see the total number of tests in the session as well as number of tests in different states:

Unit test filters

By default, tests in all states are shown, but you can click the corresponding icons to filter tests by their state. You can also Ctrl-click several icons to display tests in several different states.

Status of each test in the Unit Test Sessions window is displayed with one of the following icons:

ThemedIcon.RunningTest.Screen.(Gray).png

Unit test is currently executing

ThemedIcon.TestPending.Screen.(Gray).png

Unit test is scheduled for execution in the current run

ThemedIcon.StatusUnknown.Screen.(Gray).png

Unit test was not executed

ThemedIcon.Success.Screen.(Gray).png

Unit test passed in the lats test run

ThemedIcon.Error.Screen.(Gray).png

Unit test failed in the lats test run

ThemedIcon.Ignore.Screen.(Gray).png

Unit test was ignored in the last test run

Either it has the corresponding attribute (for example Ignore for NUnit tests) or it is included in a category that is ignored in ReSharper settings.

ThemedIcon.StatusAborted.Screen.(Gray).png

Unit test was aborted in the last test run

ThemedIcon.StatusInconclusive.Screen.(Gray).png

Unit test was started but ReSharper could not read the test runner output. This normally happens when you abort test execution, but could also be a sign of an error occurring in the test runner.

The same icons are used to display status of grouping items (classes, projects, and so on)

The icons are also used on each session's tab to display the overall execution result of the sessions.

The corresponding icons above the test session tree show how many tests are in each of the states. The ThemedIcon.UnitSession.Screen.(Gray).png icon shows the total number of tests in the session.

Using these icons, you can filter the tree so that only tests in the corresponding status are displayed.

Customize execution process

By default, ReSharper uses unit test project settings to define which .NET Framework version and processor architecture should be used when executing tests.

When tests in your project use (sometimes indirectly or implicitly) an assembly based on CLR2 and your project already targets CLR4, errors may occur during test execution. You can avoid such situation, by specifying explicitly what CLR (.NET Framework) should be used. To do so, use the Default .NET Framework version selector on the Tools | Unit Testing page of ReSharper options (Alt+R, O) . This preference affects tests running under NUnit, XUnit and MSpec test frameworks. It has no effect on tests running under MSTest yet.

You can also change the platform architecture (32-bit or 64-bit) using the Default platform architecture selector on that options page.

If necessary, you can override these settings for specific unit test session using the Options selector on the toolbar.

Study execution log

Unit Test Sessions window includes test execution log that lets you separate problems related to test execution process from unit tests results.

You will normally need to check execution log if some of your tests have the 'Inconclusive' state after execution, which could be a sign of an error occurring in the test runner.

If you have errors reported either by the test runner or ReSharper, the number of errors is displayed on the right side of the window's status bar, else OK is shown.

To display or hide the execution log, click the Log ThemedIcon.SessionLog.Screen.(Gray).png button.

By default, only events with the 'Error' severity level are logged. If necessary, you can change the minimum severity level. To do so, either right-click the log area and choose the desired severity level or use the Maximum severity of log entries selector on the Tools | Unit Testing | General page of ReSharper options (Alt+R, O) .

You can also copy the whole log to the clipboard by choosing the corresponding command in the context menu.

Last modified: 21 March 2024