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When working with unit tests in Visual Studio, it's possible to compile playlists that group the tests. This is useful, for instance, when developing a new feature for which we want to run only the related tests and not all the existing ones.
However, it seems to me the playlists can only be maintained "manually", by explicitly adding/removing unit tests.
It's better than nothing, but it would be great if I could some how "tag" my unit tests depending on some criterion (e.g. feature, test duration, etc.) and generate the playlists dynamically.
Is there any way to do something similar in Visual Studio with the default testing framework?
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To create a playlist, choose one or more tests in Test Explorer. Right-click and choose Add to Playlist > New playlist. To open a playlist, choose the playlist icon in the Visual Studio toolbar and select a previously saved playlist file from the menu.
To generate unit tests, your types must be public. Open your solution in Visual Studio and then open the class file that has methods you want to test. Right-click on a method and choose Run IntelliTest to generate unit tests for the code in your method. IntelliTest runs your code many times with different inputs.
Unit tests run one at a time. There is no parallelism. See attached screenshot. We have directed your feedback to the appropriate engineering team for further evaluation.
You can run certain tests contextually in relation to the current cursor position by right clicking and then "Run Tests", or hitting CTRL+R then T.
See MSDN documentation on the subject.
Alternatively you can filter the test explorer in various ways. I often use the Project flag to exclude certain projects for instance.
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