Get VS Test Explorer to show only test name not full type name

Question

My VS test explorer shows tests including the full type name, like so:

CompanyName.ProjectName.Web.Tests.SutDoesWhatItShould

Instead of just:

SutDoesWhatItShould

This is highly unreadable/annoying. How do I fix this?

I'm using the xunit runner for visual studio (prerelease) and xunit.net.

robi-y · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-29T16:03:49.053

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So you need to add to app.config:

<appSettings>
    <add key="xunit.methodDisplay" value="method"/>
</appSettings>

and as noted in the comments, you might need to restart Visual Studio.

edited Aug 29 '17 at 16:03

answered Feb 19 '15 at 08:22

robi-y

3

Worked perfectly, but for others I found I needed to restart Visual Studio to see the change. At least on VS 2013. – James Holland Feb 25 '16 at 18:22
@JamesHolland I had to restart VS 2015 also. – Ulysses Alves Feb 08 '17 at 11:50
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Vs2017 also needed to restart, but it worked like a charm – D.Rosado Aug 10 '17 at 11:55
For me, normal tests are showing the method name, but tests with multiple TestCase() are showing the fully qualified namespace and name. This solution did not fix that (even after restarting VS). – MGOwen May 15 '18 at 06:28
Docs moved to https://xunit.net/docs/configuration-files – Jon Peterson Jan 27 '21 at 21:42

score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 12 '17 at 17:33

For .NET Core projects (with .json configuration):

Add xunit.runner.json file to your test project with following contents: { "methodDisplay": "method" }
Set Copy if newer from options for xunit.runner.json file you've just added
Build the test project

For more information refer to the documentation.

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