How to run NUnit programmatically

Question

I have some assembly that references NUnit and creates a single test class with a single test method. I am able to get the file system path to this assembly (e.g. "C:...\test.dll"). I would like to programmatically use NUnit to run against this assembly.

So far I have:

var runner = new SimpleTestRunner();
runner.Load(path);
var result = runner.Run(NullListener.NULL);

However, calling runner.Load(path) throws a FileNotFound exception. I can see through the stack trace that the problem is with NUnit calling Assembly.Load(path) down the stack. If I change path to be something like "Test, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null" then I still get the same error.

I have added an event handler to AppDomain.Current.AssemblyResolve to see if I could manually resolve this type but my handler never gets called.

What is the secret to getting Assembly.Load(...) to work??

Answer 1

If you want to open in a console mode, add nunit-console-runner.dll reference and use:

NUnit.ConsoleRunner.Runner.Main(new string[]
   {
      System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, 
   });

If you want to open in a gui mode, add nunit-gui-runner.dll reference and use:

NUnit.Gui.AppEntry.Main(new string[]
   {
      System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().Location, 
      "/run"
   });

This is the best approach because you don't have to specify any path.

Another option is also to integrate NUnit runner in Visual Studio debugger output:

public static void Main()
{
    var assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly().FullName;
    new TextUI (new DebugTextWriter()).Execute(new[] { assembly, "-wait" });
}

public class DebugTextWriter : StreamWriter
{
    public DebugTextWriter()
        : base(new DebugOutStream(), Encoding.Unicode, 1024)
    {
        this.AutoFlush = true;
    }

    class DebugOutStream : Stream
    {
        public override void Write(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
        {
            Debug.Write(Encoding.Unicode.GetString(buffer, offset, count));
        }

        public override bool CanRead { get { return false; } }
        public override bool CanSeek { get { return false; } }
        public override bool CanWrite { get { return true; } }
        public override void Flush() { Debug.Flush(); }
        public override long Length { get { throw new InvalidOperationException(); } }
        public override int Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count) { throw new InvalidOperationException(); }
        public override long Seek(long offset, SeekOrigin origin) { throw new InvalidOperationException(); }
        public override void SetLength(long value) { throw new InvalidOperationException(); }
        public override long Position
        {
            get { throw new InvalidOperationException(); }
            set { throw new InvalidOperationException(); }
        }
    };
}