How do you run nunit tests in Bamboo?

Paul Rempel

I have a .NET Solution that is built in Bamboo (3.03) using the MSBUILD builder. That builds several assemblies including some nunit test assemblies. I want to run nunit and generate test results after the solution file is built successfully.

How do you do this? Ie. What builder should I use? Do I need multiple Jobs for the Plan? And does the procedure change if I upgrade to a newer version of Bamboo?

I've tried creating a second Job which will run nunit-console.exe after the first Default Job has built the assemblies. The problem is that when the second job runs, it is in its own subfolder with a new copy of the repository files, which does not include the freshly compiled dll's from the previous Job.

Joe Clark

EDIT: I thought there was built-in support for running NUnit tests in Bamboo 3.1, but I was stupidly mistaken. There is a built-in test result parser, but shelling out to a batch script or a custom MSBuild task is still the "best" way to go for now.

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If you're able to upgrade to Bamboo 3.1, there is built-in support for running NUnit Tests and parsing NUnit XML Result files as stand-alone tasks in a build. Check out the release notes.

Otherwise, I think the easiest solution is to edit your MSBuild file and use the MSBuild Community Tasks to call NUnit to execute your tests. For example, a skeleton implementation of this in MSBuild would look something like this:

<Project xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

<Import Project="lib\MSBuild.Community.Tasks.Targets" />

<Target Name="Test">

<NUnit Assemblies="bin\Debug\MyAssemblyToTest.dll" ToolPath="C:\Program Files\NUnit 2.5.10\bin\net-2.0" OutputXmlFile="bin\Debug\TestResults.xml" />

</Target>

</Project>