Test method is inconclusive Test wasn t run Error

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I have a test class and below I have posted a sample test from the test class  namespace AdminPortal Tests Controller Test Customer        TestClass      public class BusinessUnitControllerTests               private IBusinessUnitRepository  mockBusinessUnitRepository          private BusinessUnitController  controller            TestInitialize          public void TestInitialize                          mockBusinessUnitRepository   MockRepository GenerateMock lt IBusinessUnitRepository gt                  controller   new BusinessUnitController  mockBusinessUnitRepository                       TestCleanup          public void TestCleanup                          mockBusinessUnitRepository   null                controller Dispose                 controller   null                       region Index Action Tests          TestMethod          public void Index Action Calls GetAllBusinessUnit                          mockBusinessUnitRepository Stub x   gt  x GetAllBusinessUnit                   controller Index                  mockBusinessUnitRepository AssertWasCalled x  gt x GetAllBusinessUnit                         When I run the project I get following screen   I checked the references and the test project has the reference to main project  Any idea why the test are not running or saying that they were inconclusive   Edit 1   I saw a post here and changed my test s setting s default processor architecture to X64 but it still doesn t work

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I had the same issue with resharper and I corrected this error by changing an option:

Resharper => Options => Tools => Unit Testing

I just had to uncheck the option "Shadow-copy assemblies being tested"

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My solution    NUnit 3 2 0 has some issues with Resharper - downgrade to 2 6 4   update-package nunit -version 2 6 4

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In my case  Test  methods were just private  S-h-a-m-e

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I had similiar issue  VS 2010  c  CLR 2 Nunit 2 5 7   just build   clean solution from VS helped to resolve this issue

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Just in case none of the above options worked for anyone I fixed my instance of this error by noticing a corrupt entry in my App Config due to a missing nuget package in the test project

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In my case  I referenced 2 projects from my unittestproject  Both referenced projects used a dll with the same name  but with a different version   I did not notice this in Visual Studio  I noticed the error in the Eventviewer   To solve this  I used bindingRedirect in the app config of the unittestproject to fix the dll-version

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In my case it was a mistake i did while copying the connectionstring in the app config   I had put it inside the configSections tag   Took me a while to realize that    thanks VS intellisense though   or was it resharper

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In my case my test method was private I changed it to public and it worked

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I had the same error in VS2013 and Resharper9  The problem was because i forgot to annotate test method with  Test     Hope this helps anyone

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In my case found that the TestCaseSource has different number of argument than the parameter in test method    Test  TestCaseSource  DivideCases    public void DivideTest int n  int d  int q        Assert AreEqual  q  n   d       static object   DivideCases         new object     12  3        new object     12  2        new object     12  4         Here each object array in DivideCases has two item which should be 3 as DivideTest method has 3 parameter

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My problem was that I had only installed NUnit with nuget   I hadn t installed NUnit3TestAdapter which was also required   Install-Package NUnit3TestAdapter

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I know this question has  several  answers to it  but I have yet another unique answer that I haven t seen as a way to resolve it   I m hoping this helps someone else out there  To use the Unit Test Sessions  one external dependency is the Microsoft Net Test Sdk  at some point in the VS pipeline the xunit runner visualstudio stopped working correctly for the ReSharper Unit Test Session flavor of test runner   The following is how I ended up with this problem  and how I solved it  My issue and answer arose from seeing the Inconclusive when converting some of my net451 libraries into netStandard 2 0 in order to allow my team to develop in Core or Framework   When I went into the newly finished netStandard2 0 libraries and started converting their old unit test projects into the new solutions  I ran into issues   You can t run Unit Tests in a net Standard project  so I chose to downshift to net472 for my unit testing projects  At this point I ll note   csproj files have gone through a change since  net Framework   In order to cleanly integrate with build packs for nupkg files and  net Standard libraries  you need to change your references to be handled with PackageReference instead of packages config  I had a few libraries coupled to Windows that couldn t be converted to netStandard  so when updating their dependencies to use the new netStandard libs  I realized that the dotnet pack command would fail if their  csproj files were in the old format   To fix that  not only did they need to be converted to PackageReference from packages config  I had to manually update the  csproj files to the newer VS2017 format   This allowed those libraries to build into nuget packages cleanly as net472 libraries referencing netStandard2 0 dependencies  There is a tool to convert the package organization behavior for you  it keeps the old  csproj style and uses the PackageReference in the  csproj   And due to the above I got in the habit of migrating the  csproj style to the VS2017 format manually  So in summary  I was receiving the Inconclusive when I was using both PackageReference for my dependencies AND my Unit Testing Project  csproj file was in the VS2017 style  I was able to solve this by deleting my project  recreating it exactly as it was in net472 and instead of converting it to the VS2017  csproj format  I left it in the old format  The old format  for whatever reason  allows my Test Session to complete  I m curious of few things   If a lot of the people with this issue were experiencing it in netCore versions where the  csproj files come in the new format by default  If people able to solve the issue by other means than my reproduceable problem fix were on the netCore versions of  csproj and using netCore as their test project as well  If this solution will help any of the people that weren t able to fix it through rebuilds or deletion of vs bin folders or additional entries in their  csproj files   I don t know that this answer is the one true solution that ReSharper would need to fix it for everyone  but it is reproduceable for me  and solves my problem to leave the unit test project as the old version of  csproj file  at least when I have a net472 unit test project referencing netStandard2 0 libraries  It should also be noted that VS2017  csproj files deprecates the need for an AssemblyInfo cs file in the Properties folder  which I m not sure if that causes issues for the Unit Test Sessions as well

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I faced this problem in vs 2017 update 3 with Resharper Ultimate 2017 2  Restart vs or restart machine can t help   I resolved the problem by clearing the Cache as follows       Resharper - gt options- gt  Environment - gt click the button  Clear caches    Update   There is a button  error   I find in Resharper 2018  in the upper right corner of the test window   If you click the error button  it shows an error message that may help in resolving the problem   To track the root of the problem  run Visual Studio in log mode  In vs 2017  Run the command         devenv  ReSharper LogFile C  temp log test log txt  ReSharper LogLevel Verbose   Run the test   Review the log file test log txt and search for  error  in the file   The log file is a great help to  find the error that you can resolve or you can send the issue with the log file to the technical support team of Resharper

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In my case it was due to passing in  r n characters inside TestCase s   Not sure why it s causing intermittent issues  as it works most of the time   But if I remove  r n the test is never inconclusive    TestCase  test r n1 2 r n3 4   1  2   public void My Test string message  double latitude  double longitude

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In my case  Visual Studio Community 2017 version 15 2  the source of issue was new way of loading projects introduced in VS 2017  i e   Lightweight Solution Load     In  Unit Test Sessions  window I noticed that solution has way less tests then it should  I had to open each unit test project manually in  Solution Explorer  and only then all tests were loaded and passed   One way to solve this is to disable  Lightweight Solution Load  by right clicking on solution in  Solution Explorer  and set  Disable Lightweight Solution Load

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I had the exact same problem  no tests were run in my test-project  As it happend I had the wrong configuration selected when running the tests  Changing it back to Debug fixed the problems

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All the test for my class became inconclusive after some code changes  they were passing previously    It appeared that I had added a new field to my testing class   private readonly Foo  foo   CreateFoo      The problem was that an exception was thrown inside  CreateFoo     so it happened for all the tests and instead of failing they all became inconclusive

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For me it was rather frustrating  but I ve found solution for my case at least   If your TestMethod is async  it cannot be void  It MUST return Task   Hope it helps someone

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Caused by missing  not corrupt  App Config file  Adding new  Add -  New Item    -  Application Configuration File  fixed it

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Another one method of solving this problem  Run tests in another environment  TeamCity for example  and see your REAL problem  My problem was incorrect binding redirect to System Web Mvc 5 2 6 0  not installed on my machine

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Sometimes Just try drop header  h  file and reAdd it as source  cpp  NOT rename   Test in resharp c    amp  amp  vs2019  Test Code is Here

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In my case I had an error in my application configuration file app config  I had misplaced appsettings above the configSections instead of placing it inside  So a corrupt configuration file could be the cause of Resharper not running your tests responding Inconclusive

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Hope it ll help other  my fix was to update packages  there was a consolidation  and making all work with same packs fixed this issue for me  GL

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Very strange behavior    Just moved a new appsetting entry recently added to the bottom of the app config solved my issue     lt appSettings gt       lt add key  xxxxxx  value  xxxxx    gt   lt  appSettings gt    Hope this helps someone

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I was having this problem  and it turned out to be the same as this problem over here  This answer solved the problem for me         Uncheck  Only build startup projects and dependencies on Run   Options -  Projects and Solutions -  Build and Run    In Configuration Manager  make sure both the start-up project and the Test project have  Build  checked         The second time I hit this issue  it was due to an ampersand in the filepath to the project where the tests reside  It works fine with ReSharper s test runner  but not dotCover s  Remove the ampersand from the filepath   This is a confirmed bug with dotCover

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I m was having the same problem to run any test using NUnit framework   Inconclusive  Test not run  Visual Studio 2017 15 5 6  ReSharper Ultimate 2017 3 3  Build 111 0 20180302 65130  SOLVED Adding project dependency to Microsoft NET Test Sdk

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I had all tests from a single test class failing with this issue  all other were running well  Later I found an error in a  ignore  attribute in one the tests on this class

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I m using VS2010  NUnit 2 6 3  although internally ReSharper says it s using 2 6 2    ReSharper 7 7 1  amp  NCrunch 2 5 0 12 and was running into the same     test is inconclusive     thing with NUnit  but NCrunch said everything was fine   For most of today NUnit  amp  NCrunch were in sync agreeing about which tests were happy and which needed refactoring  then something happened which I still don t understand  and for a while NCrunch said I had failing tests  but stepping through them showed them to pass   then decided they were all working  and NUnit started complaining about all my tests except one with the same message    test is inconclusive     which I was again able to single step through to a pass even though NUnit continued to show it as  inconclusive       I tried several of the suggestions above to no avail  and finally just closed VS2010  amp  reopened the solution   Voila  now all my tests are happy again  and NCrunch  amp  NUnit are reporting the same results again   Unfortunately I have no idea what changed to cause them to go out of sync  but closing  amp  reopening VS2010 seems to have fixed it     Maybe someone else will run into this and be able to use this simple  if ultimately unsatisfying since you don t know what the real fix is  solution

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For me the issue was an asynchronous call which was not waited in any way       dc Start       Asynchronous  it is mocked on this particular test  so i did not bother blocking the test    Changed it to          dc Start   ContinueWith t   gt               waitHandle Set               waitHandle WaitOne 60000      wait dc start   And the test began to be applicable again

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I used the ReSharper Build to fix this    ReSharper   gt  Options   gt  Tools   gt  Build   gt  General   gt  Use ReSharper Build

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In my case I created an async test method which returned void  Returning of Task instead of void solved the issue

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In my case i got this error because of  Release  mode where build of UnitTests project was simply switched off  Switching back to  Debug  mode fixed it    It s really surprising that ReSharper cannot say anything in case it cannot find UnitTests library at all  Seriously  it s a shame    Hope it will help somebody

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I had the same problem It was related to compatibility version between  NUnit 3 5 and Resharper 9 2 since it was solved by downgrading from NUnit 3 5 to 2 6 4  It worked for me  good luck

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Have you added any DLL dependency recently      like me  I just ran into the same issue and it was very exasperating not to get any clue in the test output window or elsewhere practical   The cause was extremely stupid  I just added the day before dependency to an additional external DLL in a sub-project  and the main project App indeed built and ran correctly after the change  But my unit tests are in a sister project to the main app  and thus had too the dependency on this changed sub project where the DLL was invoked    yet  the runtime location of the test project is not that of the main App  So changing the build to do copying of the missing DLL into the test runtime directory fixed the problem

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If you are using xUnit  I solved the issue installing xunit running visualstudio package   currently using xUnit 2 3 1 and VS17 Enterprise 15 3 5

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For me  one test created this error and it turned out I had unintentionally skipped the test   On the left of the screen  where you click to put a break point  you may notice that your test is set to be skipped  there s a microsoft icon to indicate this    I enabled the test and the error went away

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For those still not able to solve their issue  check the Consolidate tab when managing your Nuget packages  Turned out our unit test project referenced a different version causing this completely vague error

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For me  the problem was a corrupt NUnit ReSharper settings XML-file  due to an unexpected power shortage    To identify the error I started Visual Studio with this command   devenv exe  ReSharper LogFile C  temp resharper log  ReSharper LogLevel Verbose   Examining the file revealed the following exception   09 45 31 894  W  UnitTestLaunch                  System ApplicationException  Error loading settings file System ApplicationException  Error loading settings file --- gt  System Xml XmlException  Root element is missing     at System Xml XmlTextReaderImpl Throw Exception e     at System Xml XmlTextReaderImpl ParseDocumentContent      at System Xml XmlLoader Load XmlDocument doc  XmlReader reader  Boolean preserveWhitespace     at System Xml XmlDocument Load XmlReader reader     at System Xml XmlDocument Load String filename     at NUnit Engine Internal SettingsStore LoadSettings      --- End of inner exception stack trace ---    at NUnit Engine Internal SettingsStore LoadSettings      at NUnit Engine Services SettingsService StartService      at NUnit Engine Services ServiceManager StartServices      at NUnit Engine TestEngine Initialize      at NUnit Engine TestEngine GetRunner TestPackage package     at JetBrains ReSharper UnitTestRunner nUnit30 BuiltInNUnitRunner  lt  gt c  DisplayClass1  lt RunTests gt b  0      at JetBrains ReSharper UnitTestRunner nUnit30 BuiltInNUnitRunner WithExtensiveErrorHandling IRemoteTaskServer server  Action action    Note that this is NOT the test project s app config   A quick googling around identified the following file as the culprit    LOCALAPPDATA  NUnit Nunit30Settings xml   It existed  but was empty  Deleting it and restarting Visual Studio solved the problem    Using Visual Studio Professional 2017 v15 3 5 and ReSharper 2017 2 1

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This problem started when I upgraded to  NET Core 1 1 0  Solved by adding the following dependency to the project json of the test project    Microsoft DotNet InternalAbstractions    1 0 500-preview2-1-003177

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I just fixed this issue as well  However  none of the solutions in this thread worked  Here s what I did     Since R  wasn t giving any detail about why things were failing  I decided to try the built-in VS2013 test runner  It experienced the exact same behavior where none of the tests ran  However  looking in the Output window  I finally had an error message      An exception occurred while invoking executor    executor   mstestadapter v1   Object reference not set to an instance   of an object    This led me to another thread on SO with a solution  Believe me  I would have NEVER guessed what the issue was    I had recently made a few changes to the AssemblyInfo cs file while creating a NuGet package  One of the changes including specifying an assembly culture value of  en    I changed this    assembly  AssemblyCulture         to this    assembly  AssemblyCulture  en         That was it  That s what inexplicably broke my unit tests   I still don t understand why  however  But at least things are working again  After I reverted this change  i e  set the culture back to      my tests began running again   Hope that helps somebody out there

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In my case  all tests within some test projects within a solution started not running after I added new projects  Using VS 2017 with ReSharper 2017 1 2 here   First of all  make sure you re not wasting time assuming that your issue is ReSharper related  It is easy to assume that there s something wrong with ReSharper if you use its unit testing features including Unit Test Explorer  Open up Visual Studio s Test Explorer under the Test menu and try Run All   The added advantage of doing this is that the output window will show an error message that might point you in the right direction  If you notice that the same set of test are not run  then it is safe to assume that the issue is with Visual Studio and not ReSharper   I ended up deleting and re-adding one of the Active solution platform  Any CPU  in Configuration Manager  By doing so  after saving my changes and reopening the solution  all tests started running again    I believe there was an unexpected configuration entry in the solution file when I added new projects and by using recreating one of the platforms  it corrected itself  I tried diffing but it was difficult to tell what had changed to cause the issue

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This error occurred with Visual Studio 2017 and resharper version 2018 2 3 but the fix applies to Visual Studio 2019 versions to   The fix  to get tests working in Resharper  was simply to update to the latest version of Resharper  2019 2 1  at the time of writing

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It was a Resharper issue  In Resharper options- Tools- MSTEST  I unchecked the Use Legacy Runner and now it works

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For me  simply cleaning and rebuilding the solution fixed it

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For those who are experiencing this issue for my test project  NET Core 2 0 in the Visual Studio 2017 Community  v15 3 3   I also had this bug using JetBrains ReSharper Ultimate 2017 2 Build 109 0 20170824 131346 - there is a bug I posted   JetBrains advised to create a new test project from scratch to reproduce it  When I did that and got tests working OK  I found the reason causing the issue    Remove this from your   csproj file  Service Include   82a7f48d-3b50-4b1e-b82e-3ada8210c358       When I did that - tests started working fine

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In my case  ReSharper gave me this additional exception in the test window   2017 06 15 12 56 57 621   ERROR Exploration failed with the exception  System AggregateException  One or more errors occurred  --- gt  System Threading Tasks TaskCanceledException  A task was canceled     --- End of inner exception stack trace ---    at System Threading Tasks Task Wait Int32 millisecondsTimeout  CancellationToken cancellationToken     at JetBrains ReSharper UnitTestFramework Launch Stages DiscoveryStage Run CancellationToken token  --- gt   Inner Exception  0  System Threading Tasks TaskCanceledException  A task was canceled  lt ---   it ended up that the test projects giving this error both were not set to build at all in the Configuration Manager  Checking the checkbox to build the 2 test projects and rebuilding sorted for me

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I had this same issue  The culprit was an external reference not being compatible with my project build settings  To resolve  I right clicked on the project- properties- build- Platform Target-  change from Any CPU to x86   The particular   dll that I was working with was System Data SQLite  That particular   dll is hardcoded for 32 bit operation  The  Any CPU  setting attempted to load it as 64 bit

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I am using VS2013  ReSharper 9 1 with MSpec extension from ReSharper and Moq  I experienced the same  inconclusive  error   It turned out the one of my Mock s from Moq was not initialized  only declared  Ones initialized all tests ran again

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My issue has been solved by the most superficial solution  Add the Moq nuget package to the test project solve the inconclusive test method  and you can remove the nuget package afterwards  After adding the Moq package my test method runs with the following nuget packages  Castle Core  4 4 0   Moq  4 13 1   NUnit  3 12 0   System Runtime CompilerServices Unsafe  4 5 0  and System Threading Tasks Extensions  4 5 1  After removing most of the above nuget packages my test method still runs with only NUnit  3 12 0   Appreciate if someone figures out why this happens

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For who are in rush for test execution  I had to use VS 2017 test explorer to run tests

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I had a version mismatch in my nuget dependencies between projects in a solution  Using the consolidate feature in Visual Studio helped identify and fix this

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I had the exact same issue and nothing helped   eventually I saw that I had a mismatch in my namespaces of the unit project and the unit test project   The namespace of my unit project is unit project and the test project was named unit project tests but the default namespace of the test was the same as the unit  both was unit project   Once I ve updated the namespaces to be different  one namespace for each project  everything worked

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