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NUnit Console runner and test engine

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Forks: 163
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 56
Avg merge: 13h 32m
Merged PRs (30d): 25

Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: Code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted

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56 open issues indexed

`AdditionalRuntimesStrategy` loads a reference assembly from a runtime pack, throwing `BadImageFormatException` (x86) Open

Bug Needs Confirmation V3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

nunit/nunit-console#1835 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 26, 2026
Setting Random Seed using --seed option has no effect Open

Feature High Priority

nunit/nunit-console#1823 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Mar 12, 2026
DllNotFoundException: Unable to load DLL 'OpenCvSharpExtern' or one of its dependencies Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#1818 · Opened Jan 29, 2026
NUnit Console Runner Fails on MacOS for Versions 3.21.0 and Later Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nunit/nunit-console#1814 · Opened Jan 8, 2026
NUnit Console 3.20.2 no longer works with `--framework=mono-4.0` Open

V3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nunit/nunit-console#1788 · Opened Dec 6, 2025
Instrumentation of TestAssemblyLoadContext to track usage of each strategy Open

Feature V4

nunit/nunit-console#1787 · 1 assignee · Opened Dec 2, 2025
--noresult flag results in TestResult.xml file being written with test results Open

Bug Needs Confirmation V3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nunit/nunit-console#1748 · Opened Sep 26, 2025
Resolving issue with Costura packed assemblies Open

V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#1747 · 10 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2025
Provide an in-process agent for both .NET Framework and .NET 8.0 Open

Feature Needs Design Needs Discussion V4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#1726 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 3, 2025
Version 4.0 Release Plan Open

Release Plan V4

nunit/nunit-console#1716 · 12 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 26, 2025
System.Net.Sockets.SocketException with --skipnontestassemblies under NUnitConsole 3.20.1 Open

Bug V3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#1696 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 10, 2025
Inconsistent results between nunit3-console and other runners when assemblies are loaded on DefaultAssemblyLoadContext Open

Bug V3

nunit/nunit-console#1691 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 28, 2025
Add linux build and test to our CI and GitHub workflows Open

Build V4

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nunit/nunit-console#1667 · Opened Apr 15, 2025
Pending Bugs for V4 Open

V4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nunit/nunit-console#1666 · Opened Apr 14, 2025
net8 runner: Could not load file or assembly Microsoft.AspNetCore.Http.Abstractions Open

Investigate V3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nunit/nunit-console#1648 · Opened Mar 18, 2025
Modular Structure of the Engine Open

Design Decision Epic Needs Discussion V4

nunit/nunit-console#1607 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 20, 2025
ITestRunner.Run() does not pass Activity.Current to underlying test Open

Bug Investigate V3

nunit/nunit-console#1591 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 3, 2025
NUnit.Engine 3.18.3 value of Attribute static property is null Open

Investigate V3

nunit/nunit-console#1514 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 15, 2024
Split help into several screens Open

Enhancement Low Priority V4

nunit/nunit-console#1480 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 15, 2024
Create pseudo-runners for situations where we can't actually run tests but want to produce a report Open

Enhancement V4

nunit/nunit-console#1475 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 9, 2024
Eliminating locking of assembly file while test is loaded Open

Feature V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nunit/nunit-console#1425 · 42 comments · Opened Jun 26, 2024
Regular --where test filter with quotes or spaces cannot be passed via @ FILE option Open

Bug Documentation Needs Confirmation V4

nunit/nunit-console#1359 · 7 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 15, 2023
DependencyInjection via Autofac not working properly using NUnit console (or testcentric GUI) Open

Bug V3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nunit/nunit-console#1353 · 7 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2023
Unable to load DLL 'wpfgfx_cor3.dll' or one of its dependencies during unit test Open

Bug Needs Confirmation V3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#1328 · 16 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 14, 2023
NUnit.Console.exe sometimes returns with -100 (SocketException) Open

Investigate Needs Confirmation V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

nunit/nunit-console#1276 · 74 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2022
Volunteers Wanted for the NUnit Engine Team Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nunit/nunit-console#1221 · 7 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2022
NUnit Console 3.15.2: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.Abstractions' in WebApplicationFactory Open

Blocked Bug help wanted High Priority V3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#1202 · 11 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 31, 2022
When using TCP transport, StopRun is never received Open

Bug High Priority V4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nunit/nunit-console#1187 · 12 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2022
Show test progress independent of labels? Open

Enhancement Needs Discussion V4Plus

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#1184 · 1 reaction · Opened May 14, 2022
Automatically send out notifications of the new release using channels we determine. Open

Build Needs Discussion V4Plus

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nunit/nunit-console#1073 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 2, 2022
Multicomputer/Multiplatform testing environment Open

Feature V4Plus

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nunit/nunit-console#944 · 4 comments · Opened May 3, 2021
Remove some sections from console output Open

Enhancement Needs Design V4Plus

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nunit/nunit-console#938 · 8 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 20, 2021
Release Assembly Under Test After Usage Open

Bug V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#924 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 22, 2021
v4: Only permit integration through API methods exposed through nunit.engine.api Open

Breaking Change V4

nunit/nunit-console#886 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 30, 2021
Create a dummy extension for testing Open

Build V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#850 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 1, 2021
Crash errors when mismatched copies of nunit.engine.api are encountered Open

Bug hardfix High Priority V4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nunit/nunit-console#826 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 13, 2020
Engine should not crash on encountering assembly that cannot be examined Open

Bug V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

nunit/nunit-console#798 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 18, 2020
Add Test Adapter to the NUnit Engine solution Open

Build help wanted V4Plus

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

nunit/nunit-console#785 · 21 comments · Opened Jun 7, 2020
Agent protocol design: allow concurrent runners for the same agent? Open

Needs Design V4Plus

nunit/nunit-console#763 · 23 comments · 1 assignee · Opened May 4, 2020
Agent should not try to load extensions it can't use. Open

Bug High Priority Needs Confirmation V4

nunit/nunit-console#760 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened May 3, 2020
NUnit Console/Engine v4 Open

Epic Needs Discussion V4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

nunit/nunit-console#752 · 13 comments · Opened Apr 26, 2020
Overall result: Unknown Open

Bug Needs Confirmation V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#727 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 15, 2020
Replacement for RuntimeFrameworkService Open

help wanted High Priority Refactor V4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nunit/nunit-console#702 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 25, 2019
Agent Error reporting not working correctly Open

Bug help wanted

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

nunit/nunit-console#700 · Opened Oct 21, 2019
Explore command (--explore) does not report issues while generating Test Cases Open

Needs Discussion V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#658 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 25, 2019
No test events generated for Project elements Open

Design Decision V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#601 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 3, 2019
Unloading and Loading DirectRunner causes crash Open

Bug Needs Confirmation V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

nunit/nunit-console#522 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2019
Allow out-of-process running in NUnit.ConsoleRunner.NetCore Open

Enhancement NetCoreRunner V4

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

nunit/nunit-console#477 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 5, 2018
Cannot run .Net Framework Assemblies from nunit.engine.netstandard Open

Feature NetCoreRunner V4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

nunit/nunit-console#465 · 9 comments · Opened Sep 3, 2018
Terminated Agent Process leads to lost Test Results Open

Enhancement hardfix Needs Design Needs Discussion V4Plus

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

nunit/nunit-console#413 · 2 comments · Opened May 7, 2018

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