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Asked: 2026-06-06T11:15:31+00:00

I’m learning xUnit and so far, have found it to be a most useful

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I’m learning xUnit and so far, have found it to be a most useful tool. It’s making me rethink some of my coding tactics to TDD instead.

However, I’ve come across an interesting problem. My test case is failing. No real concern there, but how do I debug it?

Specifically my test case is failing due to a “out of index” error, or something similar. It’s NOT failing at the assert statement. What I need now, is some way to run the test case with the Visual Studio debugger active so that I can see the status of the different variables.

I’m not going to post code, as this situation is bound to come up again. Does anyone have any idea HOW to debug the test case itself?

Almost forgot! I’m using,

  • Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate (Dreamspark license)
  • xUnit 1.9

My workflow involves using the xUnit GUI runner to run the tests.

If what I’m asking is impossible, can someone suggest an alternative test suite I could use that has what I want?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve not tested this but you should be able to attach visual studio to the xUnit GUI and debug from there.

    From the Debug menu select ‘attach to process’, locate the name of the executable in the list and click attach. Set breakpoints in the unit test as required and run the test from the GUI. The breakpoint should be hit as expected.

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