"Hidden" shortcuts for testers in Visual Studio

Like most of us, I learned the following shortcuts from the menu
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Figure: VS Run tests menu items with shortcuts

Ctrl+R,T Run tests in current context
Ctrl+R,A Run all tests in solution
Ctrl+R,Y Run all impacted tests

with their corresponding Debug Mode, by using <Ctrl> for the second keystroke. E.g. Ctrl+R,Ctrl+T Debug tests in current context

Today I discovered these additional shortcuts.
I discovered those by changing some shortcuts from using MSTest to TestDriven, as per suggestion from RBanks54 (which rocks BTW, both)

Ctrl+R,N Run tests in namespace
Ctrl+R,C Run tests in class

Not sure how useful those are, but I tend to scroll through the whole list of shortcuts now and learn some new ones… 

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Figure: Keyboard options where I found those

 

Enjoy!

 

PS
Ctrl+R, F Runs all checked tests (that means tests that failed in the last run, when using MSTest with the GUI)

4 comments:

Unknown said...

Interesting, though I'd find it much more useful if there were the possibility to organize tests into "suites" (like in JUnit). Didn't found a way to do that so far.

Btw, did you buy Testdriven.net??

Peter Gfader said...

>>Interesting, though I'd find it much more useful if there were the possibility to organize tests into "suites" (like in JUnit).

I use to organise my tests via projects and classes. And give them a meaningful name.
E.g.
Project:Tests.Unit.WCFService
Class: AccountServiceTests
Test: CalculateSalary_NoEmployeeSelected_ReturnError

But you are right categories are quite nice... but not necessary...

>>Btw, did you buy Testdriven.net??
Not yet...

Unknown said...

>>I use to organise my tests via projects and classes. And give them a >>meaningful name.
>>E.g.
>>Project:Tests.Unit.WCFService
>>Class: AccountServiceTests
>>Test: CalculateSalary_NoEmployeeSelected_ReturnError

That's fine and an absolute must, otherwise you completely loose control over your test organization. But still I find it an extreme lack of not having the possibility to organize them in categories/suites. Anyway :) the force of habit :)

Peter Gfader said...

>>possibility to organize them in categories/suites.

nunit and mbunit have this feature.
xunit and mstest not so far...

lots of people (including me) say its better to make separate test assemblies (=categories)

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