NUnitLite Options

NUnitLite Options

The NUnitLite runner is invoked by executing the test program. If desired, any of the following options may be specified:

--test=NAMES	Comma-separated list of NAMES of tests to run or explore. This option may be repeated.
--testlist=PATH	File PATH containing a list of tests to run, one per line. This option may be repeated.
--include=CATEGORIES	Test CATEGORIES to be included. May be a single category, a comma-separated list of categories or a category expression.
--exclude=CATEGORIES	Test CATEGORIES to be excluded. May be a single category, a comma-separated list of categories or a category expression.
--timeout=MILLISECONDS	Set timeout for each test case in MILLISECONDS.
--seed=SEED	Set the random SEED used to generate test cases.
--workers=NUMBER	Specify the NUMBER of worker threads to be used in running tests.
--stoponerror	Stop run immediately upon any test failure or error.
--wait	Wait for input before closing console window.
--pause	Pause before run to allow debugging.
--work=PATH	PATH of the directory to use for output files.
--output, --out=PATH	File PATH to contain text output from the tests.
--err=PATH	File PATH to contain error output from the tests.
--result=SPEC	An output SPEC for saving the test results. This option may be repeated.
--explore[=SPEC]	Display or save test info rather than running tests. Optionally provide an output SPEC for saving the test info. This option may be repeated.
--noresult	Don't save any test results.
--labels=VALUE	Specify whether to write test case names to the output. Values: Off, On, All
--trace=LEVEL	Set internal trace LEVEL. Values: Off, Error, Warning, Info, Verbose (Debug)
--teamcity	Turns on use of TeamCity service messages.
--noheader, --noh	Suppress display of program information at start of run.
--nocolor, --noc	Displays console output without color.
--verbose, -v	Display additional information as the test runs.
--help, -h	Display this message and exit.

Description

By default, this command runs the tests contained in the assemblies and projects specified. If the **--explore** option is used, no tests are executed but a description of the tests is saved in the specified or default format.

Several options that specify processing of XML output take an output specification as a value. A SPEC may take one of the following forms:

• --OPTION:filename
• --OPTION:filename;format=formatname
• --OPTION:filename;transform=xsltfile

The --result option may use any of the following formats:

• nunit3 - the native XML format for NUnit 3.0
• nunit2 - legacy XML format used by earlier releases of NUnit

The --explore option may use any of the following formats:

• nunit3 - the native XML format for NUnit 3.0
• cases - a text file listing the full names of all test cases.

If --explore is used without any specification following, a list of test cases is output to the console.

If none of the options {--result, --explore, --noxml} is used, NUnit saves the results to TestResult.xml in nunit3 format.

Any transforms provided must handle input in the native nunit3 format.