This chapter explained the use of multiple command line utilities such as VSTest.Console, MSTest, and TCM for running the tests. These tools are very handy when there is no IDE. Lots of features are covered using the command line utility when compared to the earlier versions of Visual Studio. The VSTest.Console utility comes with multiple options to run automated tests such as unit tests and Coded UI tests. The MSTest utility provides options for backward compatibility along with multiple options to run automated tests and publish the results to the Team Foundation Server. The TCM utility is used for importing tests and creating test cases automatically to Test Plans. This utility is very useful, and saves lot of manual activities with Test Manager. Overall these utilities provide lot of features at the command line, and remove the IDE dependency.

The next chapter explains the details of running the test with multiple options and using the results window to get the details of Test Run.