Unit test templates missing from .NET Core Unit test project

[hicks86]

Visual Studio Version:
Visual Studio Professional 2017
Version 15.9.11

Summary:
Clicking on AddItem on a .NET Core 2.1 Unit Test Project does not show the Test category or any of the Unit test templates (1) (as opposed to a .NET Framework project (2) ).

(1)

(2)

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Right click on the unit test project go to "Add" > then select "New Item"

2. The "Add New Item" window will appear.

3. On the left hand side under Visual C# Items the "Test" category is missing, also in the central template area there are no test templates.

Expected Behavior:
To be able to Add a New Item to a test project using a template such as "Basic Unit Test"/"Generic Test"/"UnitTest")

Actual Behavior:
No test templates are found for .NET Core test project

User Impact:
Manual creation of a test class, via adding a plain class then adding the [TestClass] and [TestMethod] decorator attributes.

[hicks86]

Any updates on this guys?

[jmarolf]

sorry, missed the notifications for this somehow. this issue should be moved to https://github.com/microsoft/vstest

[hicks86]

No worries. Is there anything I can do to move it the the vstest repo issues? Should I repost it there?

[jmarolf]

If you can repost it there that would be great. I will leave this issue open until that can be accomplished

[hicks86]

Done - moved: microsoft/vstest#2094