How to run concurrently NUnit tests?

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I have a set of integration test written in C# and NUnit and I want to run them in parallel on a build-machine. How do I do that? In a similar question the accepted solution was:

Create your own test runner
Move to MBUnit

There is also a project NUnit.MultiCore but it is in Alpha version, which will be scary to use in production... Or run several standard NUnit runners in parallel using the build machine's capabilities, which is a workaround really rather than a durable solution.

Has anything changed so far? I would like to stay with NUnit and I am not too sure how easy it is to build my own test runner.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:26

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Since NUnit 2.5, NUnit has shipped with PNUnit -- a runner that can run NUnit tests in parallel. To my understanding PNUnit will be integrated into the long planned NUnit 3.0.

There's a pretty good overview how to use it here.

answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:26

bryanbcook

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '16 at 05:49

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Starting with version 3, the NUnit framework itself supports parallel test execution. You may choose whether you want parallelism to be at test case level or fixture level.

More details are on NUnit3 wiki at GitHub

answered Apr 11 '16 at 05:49

Vikash Gupta

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:10

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What had good expieriences with a tool called ALPACA (see homepage). This analyzes the code and gives hints for data races and deadlocks. It's not perfect, but was very helpful.

answered Dec 02 '11 at 15:10

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How to run concurrently NUnit tests?

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