Cake: How to get result from MSpec

Question

i tried to write a cake script for my ci. I'm new to cake. As part of this script I wanted to execute MSpec tests.

Task("Run-Tests")
.IsDependentOn("Build")
.Does(() => {
    var configurationIntoTests = configuration + "/*.Tests.dll";

    MSpec("../src/ERP.BusniessLogic.Tests/bin" + configurationIntoTests);
    MSpec("../src/ERP.DapperDataAccess.Tests/bin" + configurationIntoTests);
    MSpec("../src/ERP.DomainModel.Tests/bin" + configurationIntoTests);
    MSpec("../src/ERP.Shared.Tests/bin" + configurationIntoTests);
    MSpec("../src/ERP.Web.Tests/bin" + configurationIntoTests);
});

I assumed that it would give a console output as MSBuild does, since it has no return value. See API

As you may expect there is no console output, which means I don't know what the result of the tests is.

How can i get this result to report it to my ci?

Answer 1

Using the MSpec(string, MSpecSettings) overload will let you set what kind of report, it's name and where to put it using the MSpecSettings class.

 MSpec("../src/Progresso.ERP.BusniessLogic.Tests/bin/" + configurationIntoTests,
 new MSpecSettings {
    ReportName = "Progresso.ERP.BusniessLogic.Tests",
    HtmlReport = true,
    OutputDirectory = "./build"
});

Update

Studying your example code I notice a / is missing before configuration

var configurationIntoTests = configuration + "/*.Tests.dll";

should be

var configurationIntoTests = "/" + configuration + "/*.Tests.dll";

Otherwise i.e. bin/Debug/ becomes binDebug and the test globber will not find any assemblies and MSPec won't even be executed.