MSTest - Hide some unit tests from build server

Question

I have three unit tests that cannot pass when run from the build server—they rely on the login credentials of the user who is running the tests.

Is there any way (attribute???) I can hide these three tests from the build server, and run all the others?

Our build-server expert tells me that generating a vsmdi file that excludes those tests will do the trick, but I'm not sure how to do that.

I know I can just put those three tests into a new project, and have our build-server admin explicitly exclude it, but I'd really love to be able to just use a simple attribute on the offending tests.

Answer 1

You can tag the tests with a category, and then run tests based on category.

[TestCategory("RequiresLoginCredentials")] public void TestMethod() { ... } 

When you run mstest, you can specify /category:"!RequiresLoginCredentials"

Answer 2

There is an IgnoreAttribute. The post also lists the other approaches.