Hide test from Visual Studio Test Explorer

Question

Using Fact(Skip = "Manual Only") is not entirely satisfactory because, if I click directly on the test to run it, it's still ignored.

I want it to not appear in Test Explorer but I can still run it by clicking on it. Is this possible?

Answer 1

Nice trick from Jimmy Bogard is to use the fact that Skip is writable and react to something in the environment:

public class RunnableInDebugOnlyAttribute : FactAttribute
{
    public RunnableInDebugOnlyAttribute()
    {
        if (!Debugger.IsAttached)
            Skip = "Only running in interactive mode.";
    }
}

(Aside from that, no xUnit does not have an [Interactive] ; the closest thing is `[Trait("Interactive","True")] and use that to either use the trait grouping in test explorer to remove them.

Finally, a 'cheat' way is to use TestDriven.Net, which doesnt care if there is an attribute (along with lots of other facilities).