Is there a free Visual Studio addin for Nunit?

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I'm cheap and don't want to pay for ReSharper or TestDriven.NET, is there a free visual Studio addin for NUnit?

score 60 · Accepted Answer · edited Jan 10 '20 at 06:56

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You can create a blank project (Choose console application for example) and in the property of the project you can select DEBUG tag and select "Start External Program". Put the path of Nunit. Then, in the start option, the command line arguments select the DLL that contains all your tests (mine is always in the nunit\bin...). Then select "enable unmanaged code debugging" and you will be able to start the project inside VS and even use the debugger step-by-step.

This is a free solution.

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answered Oct 29 '08 at 18:38

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+1 [I've provided a step-by-step guide with images](http://erraticdev.blogspot.com/2012/01/running-or-debugging-nunit-tests-from.html) of how to do what you described. I'm also using NUnit this way. It also makes it possible to **debug your tests* if you need to. – Robert Koritnik Jan 11 '12 at 08:03

score 10 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 29 '08 at 19:04

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Now you can use Gallio: it's open source. www.gallio.org

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answered Oct 29 '08 at 18:36

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This is bad that most documentation and page of their website are in "TO DO". :\ – Patrick Desjardins Oct 29 '08 at 18:40
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I tried this, and it looks very promising, but i just couldn't get then VS addin working. – Eric Labashosky Oct 29 '08 at 21:24

score 7 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:09

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By the way TestDriven can be downloaded for free if it's for personal use or Open Source project.

I had to find a way to use .Net Reflector inside VS few days ago and when I downloaded TestDriven it cames with. Never got any popup asking me to paid.

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answered Oct 29 '08 at 19:00

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score 5 · Answer 4 · answered Oct 29 '08 at 18:40

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NUnit actually ships with a basic integrated runner. It's not very good, and not very publicized, but unless Charlie has taken it out, it should be in the source.

answered Oct 29 '08 at 18:40

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score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 17 '10 at 12:27

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I know this is an old question but another way to do this is to add an external tool from the tools menu to run nunit - set the arguments to be $(TargetName)$(TargetExt) and initial directory to $(ProjectDir)\bin\Debug

check out this link

answered Sep 17 '10 at 12:27

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This is what I do. Quick and simple! – Christian Hayter Sep 17 '10 at 17:26
Excellent, this is the only one solution that works for Visual Studio Express editions as they don't support Add-ins or extensive debug settings. – mathijsuitmegen Jun 24 '12 at 21:51
Link in answer says *"The authors have deleted this site."*. – Pang May 12 '20 at 01:57

Chris S · Answer 6 · 2012-09-07T14:55:01.090

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If you're running Visual Studio 2012, there is a plugin written by Charlie Poole, one of the NUnit contributers, that makes use of the new Visual Studio Unit testing plugins.

Download VsTestAdapater - it's also in the extension manager.

Unfortunately it doesn't have much grouping options yet, either by run/not run - so you can't group by class, solution and so on. It also doesn't show you any stacktrace if a test fails, just a simple green tick or red box and a message.

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answered Sep 05 '12 at 17:34

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Have you tried using the NUnit Test runner instead? I get stack traces using that – Jon Limjap Sep 07 '12 at 11:09

score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 20 '12 at 07:22

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This is an old question and things have changed since the answer was accepted.

You may try NCrunch to run tests automatically or manually.

answered Mar 20 '12 at 07:22

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One thing to note is that NCrunch appears to be in beta at the moment. Their website hints that it is free "while it's in beta" which leads me to believe it may become a paid app at some point. – Joe Phillips May 21 '12 at 02:28
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And now NCrunch is out of beta and is no longer free. – Joe Phillips Oct 30 '12 at 03:04

score 0 · Answer 8 · answered Dec 04 '11 at 23:15

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I haven't used it, but NUnitit is a free Visual Studio Add-in for NUnit.

http://nunitit.codeplex.com

From my experience, the best add-in for visual studio is resharper. TestDriven.Net is also good for unit tests. Hope that helps

answered Dec 04 '11 at 23:15

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It definitely doesn't help for you to recommend the two products that the questioner specifically said he didn't want to pay for. Hope this helps. – jwg Mar 21 '13 at 11:32

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 23 '12 at 11:52

Also found this one : http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c8164c71-0836-4471-80ce-633383031099
It is able to launch your tests in debugger, however you need to recompile the code manually each time you change something - no auto run-build integration

Is there a free Visual Studio addin for Nunit?

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This is an old question and things have changed since the answer was accepted.

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