Unable to run tests from CLI

[AndyBevan]

Describe the bug

The dotnet tests don't all execute when running from the commandline. I did a fresh clone of the repo. I'm running Windows 11 and have dotnet 9 installed. I'm getting a lot of errors "error MSB4057: The target "RunTests" does not exist in the project"

Some of the test projects run fine but at a certain point they all start failing. I tried Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.SqlServer.Tests from within visual studio and that ran fine from there.

I was wondering if the version of arcade being old would impact things. I see that the repo still has 8.0.0-beta.25079.1 set - what should it be now? I tried 9.0.0-beta.24305.5 and got similar behavior. But I'm not sure that's the correct version of 9.x for arcade. I tried looking at a pattern for the projects that ran VS didn't see anything.

Reproduction

git clone https://github.com/dotnet/interactive.git interactive-testbuild cd .\interactive-testbuild ./src/ensure-symlinks.ps1 .\build.cmd -test

Please complete the following:

Which version of .NET Interactive are you using? (In a notebook, run the #!about magic command. ):

• OS
  • [X] Windows 11
  • [ ] Windows 10
  • [ ] macOS
  • [ ] Linux (Please specify distro)
  • [ ] iOS
  • [ ] Android
• Browser
  • [X] Not Applicable
  • [ ] Chrome
  • [ ] Edge
  • [ ] Firefox
  • [ ] Safari
• Frontend
  • [ ] Jupyter Notebook
  • [ ] Jupyter Lab
  • [ ] nteract
  • [ ] Visual Studio Code
  • [ ] Visual Studio Code Insiders
  • [X] Visual Studio - technically I'm running the preview version, but the tests I tried ran fine there
  • [ ] Other (please specify)

Errors

See attached log file for the full build log (paths redacted)

  Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.AspNetCore.Tests succeeded (3.7s) → artifacts\bin\Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.AspNetCore.Tests\Debug\net9.0\Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.AspNetCore.Tests.dll
  Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.CSharpProject.Tests succeeded (2.8s) → artifacts\bin\Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.CSharpProject.Tests\Debug\net9.0\Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.CSharpProject.Tests.dll
  Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Jupyter.Tests succeeded (4.2s) → artifacts\bin\Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Jupyter.Tests\Debug\net9.0\Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Jupyter.Tests.dll
  Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.SqlServer.Tests failed with 1 error(s) (0.0s)
    C:\Users\REDACT-WINUSER\.nuget\packages\microsoft.dotnet.arcade.sdk\8.0.0-beta.25079.1\tools\Tests.targets(36,23): error MSB4057: The target "RunTests" does not exist in the project.
  Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.ApiCompatibility.Tests failed with 1 error(s) (0.0s)
    C:\Users\REDACT-WINUSER\.nuget\packages\microsoft.dotnet.arcade.sdk\8.0.0-beta.25079.1\tools\Tests.targets(36,23): error MSB4057: The target "RunTests" does not exist in the project.
  Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Jupyter.Tests failed with 1 error(s) (0.0s)
    C:\Users\REDACT-WINUSER\.nuget\packages\microsoft.dotnet.arcade.sdk\8.0.0-beta.25079.1\tools\Tests.targets(36,23): error MSB4057: The target "RunTests" does not exist in the project.
  Microsoft.DotNet.Interactive.Telemetry.Tests failed with 1 error(s) (0.0s)
    C:\Users\REDACT-WINUSER\.nuget\packages\microsoft.dotnet.arcade.sdk\8.0.0-beta.25079.1\tools\Tests.targets(36,23): error MSB4057: The target "RunTests" does not exist in the project.
  dotnet-interactive.Tests failed with 1 error(s) (0.0s)

20250209-Build-Log.txt

[jonsequitur]

I would recommend using dotnet test instead.

I'll look into whether the build.cmd script is still needed. I don't believe we call it with the -test switch if so.