Jenkins does have plugins that will support that. The exact configuration is going to depend quite a bit on your project setup. There are specific plugins for nUnit, MSBuild,nAnt etc. Start by looking at the plugins page, but it shouldn't be terribly difficult to figure out.
Configure NUnit to output the results to an XML file and configure the NUnit Jenkins Plugin to consume this XML file. The results will be available on the dashboard.
Now, how you invoke NUnit is up to you. The way we did it was:
Jenkins job executes NAnt target executes NUnit test suite.
You can configure Jenkins jobs to run on commit and/or scheduled at a certain time.
Under Post-build Actions, tick Publish NUnit test result report
For the textbox Test report XMLs, enter nunit-result.xml
Once you project has been built, NUNit will now run and the results will be viewable either on the Dashboard(if you hover over the Weather report icon) or on the project page under Last Test Result.
You could also run the command from within Visual Studio or as part of you local build process.
I think it's better to fail the build when it doesn't pass so you don't deploy it. Do something like this:
C:\YourNUnitDir\nunit-console.exe C:\YourOutDir\YourLib.dll /noshadow
if defined ERRORLEVEL if %ERRORLEVEL% neq 0 goto fail_build
:: any other command
: fail_build
endlocal
exit %ERRORLEVEL%
If you don't want to hardcode your unit test projects, you are better off writing a script to grab all of your Unit Test project dll's. We do it with Powershell and follow a specific convention for naming our Unit Testing Projects. Here is the content of the powershell file that runs our unit tests:
param(
[string] $sourceDirectory = $env:WORKSPACE
, $fileFilters = @("*.UnitTests.dll", "*_UnitTests.dll", "*UnitTests.dll")
, [string]$filterText = "*\bin\Debug*"
)
#script that executes all unit tests available.
$nUnitLog = Join-Path $sourceDirectory "UnitTestResults.txt"
$nUnitErrorLog = Join-Path $sourceDirectory "UnitTestErrors.txt"
Write-Host "Source: $sourceDirectory"
Write-Host "NUnit Results: $nUnitLog"
Write-Host "NUnit Error Log: $nUnitErrorLog"
Write-Host "File Filters: $fileFilters"
Write-Host "Filter Text: $filterText"
$cFiles = ""
$nUnitExecutable = "C:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit 2.6.3\bin\nunit-console-x86.exe"
# look through all subdirectories of the source folder and get any unit test assemblies. To avoid duplicates, only use the assemblies in the Debug folder
[array]$files = get-childitem $sourceDirectory -include $fileFilters -recurse | select -expand FullName | where {$_ -like $filterText}
foreach ($file in $files)
{
$cFiles = $cFiles + $file + " "
}
# set all arguments and execute the unit console
$argumentList = @("$cFiles", "/framework:net-4.5", "/xml=UnitTestResults.xml")
$unitTestProcess = start-process -filepath $nUnitExecutable -argumentlist $argumentList -wait -nonewwindow -passthru -RedirectStandardOutput $nUnitLog -RedirectStandardError $nUnitErrorLog
if ($unitTestProcess.ExitCode -ne 0)
{
"Unit Test Process Exit Code: " + $unitTestProcess.ExitCode
"See $nUnitLog for more information or $nUnitErrorLog for any possible errors."
"Errors from NUnit Log File ($nUnitLog):"
Get-Content $nUnitLog | Write-Host
}
$exitCode = $unitTestProcess.ExitCode
exit $exitCode
The script is robust enough that we are reusing for all of our build jobs. If you don't like the full path to NUnit console, you could always put that location in your PATH environment variable.
Then we put the RunUnitTests.ps1 file on our build server and use this batch command:
Building Step (Windows command line)
"c:\Program Files (x86)\NUnit.org\nunit-console\nunit3-console.exe" c:\AutomationTraining\CSharpSelenium\bin\Debug\test.dll --result=TestR.xml;format=nunit2
Post step for Nunit report publishing, it shows only test results file in Jenkins workspace directory, not in your project:
TestR.xml
We need to make test results in nunit2 format because now Jenkins Nunit plugin doesn't recognize Nunit3 results format.
Also options string format is different:
--result=TestR.xml;format=nunit2
NOT
/xml=nunit-result.xml