Running MStest in cruise control .net build server

Question

I'm trying to setup cruisecontrol.net to work with our existing projects.

The projects use the visual studio 2008 testing tools (running as .net 2.0).

During the actual build process I get several error messages, most or which are:

Type 'TestClass' is not defined.

I'm assuming that this is because I don't have the testing framework installed on my build server.

I'd rather not just copy bits from my dev machine (that always feels a bit hacky) and I'd also rather not install visual studio on the build sever (that seems like overkill).

Does anyone know where I can get a standalone installer to put these files on my build server?

Answer 1

You can get hold of the MSTest.exe and associated libraries on a redistributable disk image under the title of "Visual Studio Agents".

Instructions:

1. Download and run setup from the disk
2. Run the test agent installer
3. No need to install the agent as a service or configure the test agent as you just want to run it from the command line.
4. The MSTest tool will now be installed somewhere like "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE" which is the same path as for visual studio.