How to run vstest.console.exe for Unit Test 64-bit platform

Question

How to run vstest.console.exe targeting the 64-bit platform?

Unit Tests set to target platform x64 were failing to run on DevOps tools (VSTS/TeamCity/Octopus).

[error]Error: None of the provided test containers match the Platform Architecture and .Net Framework settings for the test run.

Platform: X86 .Net Framework: Framework45. Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=330428 for more details on managing these settings.

Answer 1

Locally it is achieved by setting the tests on Visual Studio to run on x64 as default process.

Test tab on VS > Test Settings > Default Process Architecture > x64

When using some DevOps tool, the platform can be specified in the script which runs the vstest.console.exe

In my case, I'm using Azure DevOps Build Definitions, so I set my VS Test task to /platform:x64 through a parameter when running vstest.console.exe.

vstest.console.exe "C:\Project\bin\x64\Release\Project.UnitTests.dll" "C:\Project\bin\x64\Release\Project.UnitTests.dll" /platform:x64 /logger:trx

Once it is set, all x64 targeting Unit Tests dlls will execute successfully.

Answer 2

Check if you have vstest.console.exe under C:\ Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Mi crosoft\TestWindow\

• from cmd go to the path where your projects dll are kept. i.e. cd C:\Users\krakhil\Desktop\Notes\Practice Codes\VerifyExe\VerifyExe\bin\Debug

Press Enter

Then write -> "C:\ Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Mi crosoft\TestWindow\vstest.console.exe" VerifyExe.dll

Where VerifyExe.dll is the project dll i want to execute.