How to integrate NUnit tests into a TFS 2010 build

Question

What is the best way to integrate nunit tests into TFS 2010? Is it via generic tests or is there a better approach to running them?

Ideally I'd like to have the granularity of one generic test per test assembly and have a way to surface the results in the TFS build report.

Answer 1

You can run nunit tests from command line and therefore you can automate these tests via your (Workflow) build template.

Since there aren't a lot of custom build activities available for TFS 2010 yet, you could write your own to make sure that it integrates better with the TFS Build Report. Here you can find some information about writing a custom build activity.

Another approach would be to create unit tests via Visual Studio. These tests will be automatically run when performing a build.

Answer 2

As of now (Oct 2011), the easiest way is probably via the NUnit activity that can be found in the Community TFS Build Extensions.

Answer 3

Ian Battersby wrote a great tutorial how to set up NUnit tests for Visual Studio 2010.

Basically, you need to:

• download his build workflow template and set to your build definition
• install NUnit and NUnitTFS in your tfs machine
• add paths to installed directories in build process parameters
• set Configurations to Build setting in build process parameters
• change your NUnitTfs.exe.config with your collection name