PowerShell/test/xUnit/README.md

xUnit Tests

The folder contains xUnit tests for PowerShell Core project.

Running xUnit Tests

Go to the top level of the PowerShell repository and run full set of tests: Start-PSxUnit inside a self-hosted copy of PowerShell.

Go to the test project folder and run dotnet test -c Release.

Use filter parameter to run only needed tests:

dotnet test -c Release --filter "FullyQualifiedName~UnitTest1   # Runs tests which have UnitTest1 in FullyQualifiedName
dotnet test --filter Name~TestMethod1   # Runs tests whose name contains TestMethod1

Creating xUnit Tests

Keep the folder structure that is for Pester ../../test/powershell and C# files ../../src.

Use namespace names started with PSTests.

namespace PSTests.YourNameSpace
{
}