C# – How to install NUnit for C# with NuGet Package Manager on Visual Studio 2015

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I have Visual Studio 2015. I want to add NUnit's tests for C# project with NuGet Package Manager, and I want to have possibility of running tests with Visual Studio and in Visual Studio.

  1. First I create new C# project:
    menu FileNewProjectInstalledTemplatesVisual C#Console ApplicationOK.

  2. Then I install NUnit:
    menu ToolsNuGet Package ManagerManage NuGet Packages for Solution… Then I install packages:

    • NUnit
    • NUnit.Runner
    • NUnitTestAdapter

    In the output I see:

    Successfully installed 'NUnit 3.0.0-beta-4' to Tmp.
    Successfully installed 'NUnit.Runners 2.6.4' to Tmp.
    Successfully installed 'NUnitTestAdapter 2.0.0' to Tmp.
    
  3. The next step I do is adding new class with code:
    Right click on project → AddClassVisual C# ItemsClass
    name Tests.cs
    Add

    Then I use below code:

    namespace NUnit.Tests
    {
        using System;
        using NUnit.Framework;
    
        [TestFixture]
        public class Tests
        {
            [Test]
            public void t1()
            {
            }
            [Test]
            public void t2()
            {
            }
        }
    }
    
  4. And finally when I press RunAll on Test Explorer I see:

    ------ Discover test started ------
    NUnit VS Adapter 2.0.0.0 discovering tests is started
    Attempt to load assembly with unsupported test framework in  C:\Users\Grzegorz\Desktop\Tmp\Tmp\bin\Debug\Tmp.exe
    NUnit VS Adapter 2.0.0.0 discovering test is finished
    ========== Discover test finished: 0 found (0:00:00,0720041) ==========
    
    No tests are being discovered.
    

The strange thing is that I found no tutorial when anybody uses NuGet to install NUnit in Visual Studio 2015 and run tests in Visual Studio.

Best Answer

It looks like you are using NUnit 3 beta. From the error message I'd guess the test runner doesn't support it. Try changing the NUnit package to a 2.x version and see if that makes a difference.