Adding a Test Task to the VS Code Command Palette

Jul 21, 2021 # VSCode, Testing, Tasks

I like building my projects using the using tasks from VS Code Command Palette, I do it without even thinking.

But running tests is not the same. When I try to run a test task, I first open the palette, try to run the test.

But since I don’t have any configured, I am offered the option to configure one.

But the configure option does nothing for me, it reopens my tasks.json and makes no changes to the file.

Open the .vscode/tasks.json file. Add the below to the tasks array.

1{
2    "label": "test",
3    "command": "dotnet",
4    "type": "process",
5    "args": [
6        "test"
7    ],
8    "isTestCommand": true
9}

Now, when I go to the command palette, I have a new test task.

Select that and my tests run.