How to add log messages to an NUnit test that will appear in a nant build execution

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With NUnit, if you add Debug.Print statements in your tests they appear in the test output. (At least they do in the ReSharper unit test window.)

When using a NAnt build file that executes the same tests, those Debug.Print statements do not appear.

How can I add messages to my unit tests that will appear both in the NUnit output and the build log output from NAnt?

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NUnit 3's way of logging during a test is via the TestContext class. It has a raft of static Write variants. Each emits general content to the test result.

TestContext.Out yields a TextWriter that can also be used to emit logging information into test results.

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You want to use the merge capabilities of CruiseControl to grab your NUnit XML output. This is the situation my company has going, and it seems to work fairly well. Here is a config snippet (This goes in the <publishers> element in CCNet.config):

 <merge>
     <files>
         <file><path to XML output>\*.xml</file>
     </files>
 </merge>

Hope this works for you.

C# – Merge NUnit and NAnt output in build report

Albert - I found the answer by accident some time after asking. It seems that this is ccnet's behavior out of the box. So by default it does not show the compile results in the web dashboard.

You need to locate the file \CruiseControl.NET\webdashboard\dashboard.config and in the buildReportBuildPlugin section, add compile.xsl. It will look like this when added:

<buildPlugins>
  <buildReportBuildPlugin>
    <xslFileNames>
      <xslFile>xsl\header.xsl</xslFile>
      <xslFile>xsl\unittests.xsl</xslFile>
      <xslFile>xsl\modifications.xsl</xslFile>
      <xslFile>xsl\NCoverSummary.xsl</xslFile>

      <xslFile>xsl\compile.xsl</xslFile>

    </xslFileNames>
  </buildReportBuildPlugin>
  <buildLogBuildPlugin />
  <xslReportBuildPlugin description="NCover Report" actionName="NCoverBuildReport" xslFileName="xsl\NCover.xsl"></xslReportBuildPlugin>
</buildPlugins>

The documentation was extremely bad, and I only found this by accident when looking for something else. I was not happy that I wasted so much time when a little documentation or an example on the ccnet site would have solved this in minutes.

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C# – Merge NUnit and NAnt output in build report

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