Visual Studio Test Explorer does not show NSpec Tests anymore

[wdhofmann]

After updating Visual Studio 2017 to 15.8.2 my NSpec tests do not show up in the test explorer window anymore. I have seen a Microsoft video where they talk about performance improvements for test discovery by using Roslyn to analyse the code. So I think that could be the cause. Is there a way to fix the NSpec test adapter?

[BrainCrumbz]

Hi there. Thanks for using this test adapter. Yes, there currently are issues using NSpec.VsAdapter with newer VS 2017 versions (see e.g. nspec/NSpec#199). TBH we are not actively looking into it now. This is also in part due to the number of changes happened in the test platform API, mixed with changes between .Net Framework, .Net Core 1.x and then .Net Core 2.x.

If you feel like having a go at it, we can give you support when needed.

If you are on a .Net Framework project and can switch over console, you could use the NSpecConsoleRunner (e.g. shown here).

If you need a quick (& still clean) way of running and debugging your tests from Visual Studio, you can create a tiny test console application, as described here.

HTH