I recently discovered the Failures into Break-Points - option from googletest using the command line option gtest_break_on_failure or by de
From VS, you can add --gtest_break_on_failure
to the Command Args in the target's Property Pages, then just run the exe without stepping over.
From the command line, you should be able to run the Debug executable with the flags --gtest_break_on_failure --gtest_catch_exceptions=0
and this should allow you to break into the MSVC debugger when the test fails.