How Do I Debug xUnit.NET Tests in Monodevelop?

[vintzl]

Monodevelop Version: 7.8.4.1-0xamarin6+debian10b1
How can I debug Unit Tests with MonoDevelop?

[usr-sse2]

@vintzl, please describe your problem with more details. Before migrating to NUnit I used debugging xUnit tests in MonoDevelop or VS for Mac, and it worked (although not always).

[vintzl]

Well, I cannot see nowhere, in the UI, how to clearly debug them.

If I do "right click" in one of the Unit Tests, I have no contextual menu allowing debugging…

Finally, if I try to debug all of them, from the "play button" , no break points are respected, and no test result is return, as if MonoDevelop just builds them.

[usr-sse2]

It seems that you are trying to debug a .NET Core project on Linux. Microsoft .NET Core debugger vsdbg is included only in Visual Studio for Mac because of its license. This issue is not specific to unit tests. You should either convert your solution to .NET Framework and use Mono debugger, or use Samsung .NET Core debugger extension (which doesn't work for me – it can't even start dotnet, because it tries to execute dotnet-/usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet command).

[vintzl]

Thanks.

It seems that you are trying to debug a .NET Core project on Linux. Microsoft .NET Core debugger vsdbg is included only in Visual Studio for Mac because of its license. This issue is not specific to unit tests. You should either convert your solution to .NET Framework and use Mono debugger, or use Samsung .NET Core debugger extension (which doesn't work for me – it can't even start dotnet, because it tries to execute dotnet-/usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet command).

And what about:
sudo ln -s /usr/share/dotnet/dotnet /usr/local/share/dotnet/dotnet

I have found this issue:

• Kindly reconsider the licensing for .NET Core debugging libraries dotnet/core#505

Now I am in trouble :s My project is too big for VSCode and its OmniSharp (lags, slow, crashes…) :s

[usr-sse2]

No, the problem is not /local/ (I was writing from memory). The problem is that it runs

dotnet /usr/share/dotnet/dotnet

instead of just

/usr/share/dotnet/dotnet

So it’s considering /usr/share/dotnet/dotnet as a dotnet subcommand, and dotnet tries to find an executable named

dotnet-/usr/share/dotnet/dotnet

[vintzl]

@ usr-sse2 I have successfully made the Samsung debugger working (.NET Core ≥ 2.1).
Question:

• Why not making this debugger part of MonoDevelop?