Automatically appending CLI arguments?

[thomhurst]

Heya,

I've seen TestRunnerAdditionalArguments in some csproj files in this repo, and it looks like a way to automatically append flags based on some logic.

I'm trying to set a flag with this but it doesn't seem to be working for me.

In my project I'm doing:

    <PropertyGroup Condition="'$(TUnitReflectionScanner)' == 'true'">
        <TestRunnerAdditionalArguments>--reflection-scanner</TestRunnerAdditionalArguments>
    </PropertyGroup>

But this never seems to get passed through.

Is this supported and/or am I doing something wrong?

[thomhurst]

Ah this seems to have worked!

<TestingPlatformCommandLineArguments>$(TestingPlatformCommandLineArguments) --reflection-scanner</TestingPlatformCommandLineArguments>

[Evangelink]

@thomhurst we are using a specific build infrastructure named arcade and as such there are some testing tasks that we override and so we are reusing the patterns. The property TestRunnerXXX are used here https://github.com/microsoft/testfx/blob/main/eng/TestingPlatformRunner/TestingPlatform.Runner.targets#L10 but they are not part of a "normal" user-oriented build.

TestingPlatformCommandLineArguments is mentioned here https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/core/testing/microsoft-testing-platform-intro?tabs=dotnetcli#run-and-debug-tests but this is again not so clear...