Debugging xUnit tests in .NET Core and Visual Studio Code

Question

I\'m on a Mac, running .NET Core 1.0 and Visual Studio Code.

I have a console project and a test project. I have setup launch.json so that I can debug the console pr

Answer 1

Tyler's answer of clicking the debug test code lens icons is the easiest way of debugging a single test.

A way of testing all unit tests would be to add while(!Debugger.IsAttached) Thread.Sleep(500); inside the tests. This will make the tests wait until you attach a debugger.

using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Threading;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace SomeNamespace
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class SomeClassTests
    {
        [Test]
        public void ShouldDoTest()
        {
            while(!Debugger.IsAttached) Thread.Sleep(500);
            Assert.That(true, Is.True);
        }

        [Test]
        public void ShouldDoTest2()
        {
            while(!Debugger.IsAttached) Thread.Sleep(500);
            Assert.That(true, Is.True);
        }
    }
}

This then allows you to attach the Visual Studio Code debugger to the running testhost.dll. Simple select .NET Core Attach and then the dotnet testhost.dll.