Mastering Visual Studio 2017

Creating a unit testing project

Unit testing projects can also be created using .NET Core. In the command line, you can specify the template code mstest or xunit to create a simple unit test project or xUnit test project, respectively.

To create a simple unit test project from the command line, enter the following:

    dotnet new mstest -n <ProjectName> 

To create an xUnit test project, enter the following command:

    dotnet new xunit -n <ProjectName>

You can also run a unit test project from the command line. You need to execute the dotnet test command to do so. The unit testing frameworks are bundled as a NuGet package and can be restored as ordinary dependencies. You can execute either of the following commands:

    dotnet test
    dotnet test <ProjectPath> ...