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How to specify wildcards to match test assemblies in appveyor.yml

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James Skimming

29 Aug, 2014 10:10 AM

I'm trying to specify a wildcard to match on the test assemblies in appveyor.yml, using the following:

test:
  assemblies:
    - *\*.UnitTests.dll

When the build runs it fails immediately with the following error:

Error parsing appveyor.yml: (Lin: 52, Col: 6, Chr: 1452) - (Lin: 52, Col: 7, Chr: 1453): While scanning an anchor or alias, did not find expected alphabetic or numeric character.

I can work around this by specifying the tests to execute directly, but I want to have them picked up automatically. I can't use the default settings as that also fails, because it's trying to load a common assembly that references xUnit, but it then fails because it's referencing an old version of xUnit and it errs when resolving assemblies.

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 29 Aug, 2014 08:19 PM

   

   Surrounding the value with single quotes should do the trick:

   test:
     assemblies:
       - '*\*.UnitTests.dll'
   

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2. 2 Posted by James Skimming on 01 Sep, 2014 06:59 PM

   

   That's work in so far as the Error parsing appveyor.yml issue, but now no test assemblies are found.

   Previously I has this configuration:

   test:
     assemblies:
       - Test.Assembly1.UnitTests.dll
       - Test.Assembly.SomeNamespace2.UnitTests.dll
       - Test.Assembly.SomeNamespace3.UnitTests.dll
       - Test.Assembly.SomeNamespace4.UnitTests.dll
   

   And all the tests from those 4 assemblies were executed, but now with this configuration:

   test:
     assemblies:
       - '*\*.UnitTests.dll'
   

   No assemblies are discovered.

   I've also tried '*UnitTests.dll' but to no avail.

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3. Support Staff 3 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 01 Sep, 2014 07:16 PM

   

   Try '**\*.UnitTests.dll'

   -Feodor

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4. 4 Posted by James Skimming on 01 Sep, 2014 08:17 PM

   

   That fixed it. Could you update the Running tests documentation as it gives '*\*.tests.dll' as the example.

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5. Support Staff 5 Posted by Feodor Fitsner on 01 Sep, 2014 08:22 PM

   

   Sure, fixed. Thanks!

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6. 6 Posted by James Skimming on 01 Sep, 2014 09:08 PM

   

   Great thanks.

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7. James Skimming closed this discussion on 01 Sep, 2014 09:09 PM.