Question: I'm looking for a solution to start my tests from command line.

* I created a UnitTest Procjet in VisualStudio2017 for my .NET solution.
* Added TestStack.White NuGet package to the project.
* The test are running fluently when I start from the VisualStudio2017.
* I would like to start it from Jenkins also. I think it is the easiest to do it from command line, so I add it to my pipeline configuration (Jenkinsfile)

```
stage('Run UI Tests') {
    steps {
        bat('"C:\\PATH_TO_MSTEST\\mstest" /testcontainer:PATH_TO_MY_TEST_PROJECT\\bin\\Debug\\MyTests.dll')
    }
}

```

When I try to start it from cmd like I would do with with regular Unit Tests, it is not working.  

It says:

```
Starting execution...  
No tests to execute.

```

I build the project before I start 'Run UI Tests' stage.

**Any ideas how to make it work? Could really find it on stackoverflow, github issues of TestStack nor other glory places on the web**

Answer: 
Found a solution. 
On my local developer machine it was working, the **mstest** version was **14** 
On the build agent machine the **mstest** version was **15**, that was not working somehow (it had nothing to do with TestStack White, simply the unit tests were not working)

What I do is, calling **vstest.console.exe** instead of the **mstest**.

```
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TestAgent\Common7\IDE\Extensions\TestPlatform\vstest.console.exe

```

So, instead of

```
stage('Run UI Tests') {
    steps {
        bat('"C:\\PATH_TO_MSTEST\\mstest" /testcontainer:PATH_TO_MY_TEST_PROJECT\\bin\\Debug\\MyTests.dll')
    }
}

```

My command in the Jenkinsfile was:

```
stage('Run UiTests') {
            steps {
                bat('"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2017\\TestAgent\\Common7\\IDE\\Extensions\\TestPlatform\\vstest.console.exe" PATH_TO_MY_TEST_PROJECT\\bin\\Debug\\MyTests.dll')
            }
        }

```
nunit3-console is great alternative to MSTEST. Please refer below link.

e.g.
nunit3-console \bin\Debug\Automation.dll --where "cat=Smoke-Tests" 

<https://github.com/nunit/docs/wiki/Console-Command-Line>