vstest.executionengine.x86.exe not closing

Question

I\'ve encountered an error when running unit tests. If I Debug the unit tests vstest.executionengine.x86.exe runs, then closes when the tests pass.

If I just run the

Answer 1

For what its worth, I ran into this same situation and it turned out that I had a test that did not properly clean up all of its resources. In my specific case there was a background thread with a network connection open that did not get closed before the test exited. Not sure why exiting the test did not close this for me, but when i fixed my code to properly dispose of all the resources I opened, everything worked as expected. I did not have to add any hacks to kill the vstest.executionengine.exe, nor did I have to opt out of Test -> Test Settings -> Keep Test Execution Engine Running