How to run tests in parallel using runsettings file on VS2013

Question

we have moved from the environment of VS2010 to VS2013. Our solution has more than 5 thousand units of testing, and on VS2010 they take about 5 minutes, and on VS2013 they take about 20 minutes.

We saw that there is a problem using the testsettings file, because it configures VS2013 to use the previous test environment, so we moved it to the runsettings file, which actually solves some of the problems that we had during the transition.

The main thing now is to think that we cannot find how to configure VS2013 to run tests in parallel. On the previous VS, we set the <Execution parallelTestCount="0"> parameter, which seems to be unavailable in the runsettings file.

To summarize, how can we run tests in parallel using the runsettings file to use a newer structure?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You are using?

You can force VS2013 to use the 2010-2013 test configuration file. You can add FileName.testsettings to the 2013 .runsettings file.

 <MSTest> <CaptureTraceOutput>True</CaptureTraceOutput> <DeploymentEnabled>false</DeploymentEnabled> <SettingsFile>FILENAME.testsettings</SettingsFile> <ForcedLegacyMode>True</ForcedLegacyMode> </MSTest>