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What does this PR do?

Adds a Testcontainers.TUnit package, the TUnit counterpart to Testcontainers.Xunit and Testcontainers.XunitV3, together with a test project, documentation, and the build changes needed to run it in CI.

The package deliberately follows the design of the existing xUnit.net test framework packages: the same class names, the same lifecycle semantics, the same ADO.NET helpers, and the same example tests and documentation structure. Anyone familiar with Testcontainers.Xunit should be able to read the TUnit package without learning a new model. Where the two differ, it is because TUnit offers a native mechanism (class data sources, [DependsOn], ambient test context) for something xUnit.net needs a sink, an orderer, or an extension for.

Package. The public surface mirrors the xUnit.net packages: ContainerTest, ContainerFixture, DbContainerTest, and DbContainerFixture, built on a shared ContainerLifetime base class.

  • ContainerLifetime implements TUnit's IAsyncInitializer and IAsyncDisposable. TUnit starts the container before a test runs and disposes of it when the owning scope ends. As in the xUnit.net packages, a start failure is captured and rethrown on Container access so the test fails with the actual cause.
  • ContainerTest gives each test its own container, because TUnit creates a new test class instance per test. ContainerFixture is injected with [ClassDataSource<TFixture>] and supports every SharedType (per class, per assembly, per test session, keyed) without extra attributes or extensions.
  • Container startup honors TestContext.Current.Execution.CancellationToken, matching the xUnit.net v3 behavior from feat: Allow canceling container start in xUnit.net v3 fixtures #1431.
  • Log messages are written to the output of the TUnit context that is current when the message is logged. Logs emitted by a shared fixture during a test therefore appear in that test's output instead of a separate diagnostic stream.
  • Because TUnit sets injected properties before it initializes an instance, a fixture can declare its own [ClassDataSource<...>] properties (for example a network or a dependent container) and use them inside Configure(). This is documented in the guide.
  • Configure() is abstract. The obsolete Configure(TBuilderEntity) overload and the configure constructor callback from the xUnit.net packages are not carried over, since parameterless module builders are obsolete as well (feat: Require explicit container image in Testcontainers.Xunit #1612).
  • The package references TUnit.Core 1.68.4, the package intended for libraries that provide TUnit infrastructure without the runner. The source generator, polyfills, and implicit usings are disabled for the library. Target frameworks match the xUnit.net packages.
  • The framework-neutral files (DbContainerTestMethods, IDbContainerTestMethods, Logger, NullScope) are copied rather than shared, because the xUnit.net sources are bound to the Testcontainers.Xunit namespace and Testcontainers.XunitV3 already relies on compiling them as they are.

Tests. tests/Testcontainers.TUnit.Tests ports the Redis and PostgreSQL examples of the xUnit.net test project. The shared Redis example orders the dependent test with [DependsOn] instead of a custom test case orderer, and the PostgreSQL example uses the injected CancellationToken. Since the xUnit.net module tests exercise the xUnit.net base classes as a side effect and the TUnit package does not benefit from that, the project also contains a shared PostgreSQL DbContainerFixture example that uses every ADO.NET helper method, and a test for the postponed start exception. 16 tests, about 90% block coverage of the library.

Build. On the .NET 10 SDK, dotnet test refuses to run Microsoft.Testing.Platform projects through VSTest. The Cake Test task now detects projects that set TestingPlatformDotnetTestSupport (TUnit sets it to true, xunit.v3 sets it to false) and runs them with dotnet run, passing the platform's equivalents of the VSTest options: TRX report, code coverage, results directory, and test filter. Coverage is produced in the Visual Studio coverage XML format, and sonar.cs.vscoveragexml.reportsPaths is added next to the existing OpenCover path. The xUnit.net projects are unaffected and still run through VSTest.

Docs. A Testing with TUnit guide is added next to the xUnit.net guide, built from the same snippet markers in the test project. Package versions are managed centrally and the test project is registered for CI via .runs-on and the database module filter.

Why is it important?

TUnit is increasingly used for integration tests and has first-class support for shared, asynchronously initialized fixtures, which is exactly the pattern the xUnit.net packages exist for. Without a package, TUnit users have to hand-roll the lifetime management, the ADO.NET helpers, and the log forwarding that Testcontainers.Xunit already provides. Modeling the new package on the xUnit.net one keeps the two consistent for users who maintain tests in both frameworks, and keeps the maintenance surface familiar for the project.

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How to test this PR

./build.sh --target=Build --test-project=Testcontainers.TUnit
./build.sh --target=Test --test-project=Testcontainers.TUnit

The Test target writes Testcontainers.TUnit.Tests.trx and Testcontainers.TUnit.Tests.coverage.xml to test-results. To confirm the VSTest path is unchanged, run the same two targets with --test-project=Testcontainers.XunitV3 and check that coverage.opencover.xml is still produced.

The package can be inspected with dotnet pack src/Testcontainers.TUnit -c Release. Its only dependencies are Testcontainers and TUnit.Core.

Follow-ups

  • NuGet Trusted Publishing: the first push of a brand-new package ID depends on the owner's policy on nuget.org allowing new packages. Worth checking before the release that includes this PR.
  • The --blame-hang-timeout safeguard has no direct Microsoft.Testing.Platform equivalent and is not applied to platform projects. The TUnit test project only runs on the Linux runner, where hangs have not been an issue.
  • Attaching container logs to the TUnit test output on failure would be a natural TUnit-specific addition, left out here to keep the scope aligned with the xUnit.net packages.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features
    • Added TUnit integration with isolated per-test and shared container fixtures.
    • Added database container helpers for connections, commands, batches, and asynchronous operations.
    • Added Redis and PostgreSQL examples for container and database testing.
  • Documentation
    • Added TUnit documentation covering fixtures, database testing, configuration, and test lifecycles.
  • Build & Testing
    • Added TUnit projects to the solution and CI test execution, filtering, and coverage reporting.

Add a TUnit counterpart to the Testcontainers.Xunit and Testcontainers.XunitV3
packages. The base classes ContainerTest, ContainerFixture, DbContainerTest and
DbContainerFixture implement TUnit's IAsyncInitializer and IAsyncDisposable, so
TUnit starts the container before a test runs and disposes of it when the owning
scope ends. Fixtures are injected with ClassDataSource and support all TUnit
sharing scopes. Container startup honors the test's cancellation token, and log
messages are written to the output of the test that is current at log time.

The package references TUnit.Core, which is the package intended for libraries
that provide TUnit infrastructure without the test runner.
On the .NET 10 SDK, dotnet test refuses to run Microsoft.Testing.Platform test
projects (such as TUnit) through VSTest. The Cake Test task now detects projects
that set TestingPlatformDotnetTestSupport and runs them with dotnet run, passing
the platform's equivalents of the VSTest options: TRX report, code coverage,
results directory and test filter. The coverage is produced in the Visual Studio
coverage XML format, which the Sonar scanner picks up in addition to OpenCover.
Port the Redis and PostgreSQL examples of the xUnit.net test projects to TUnit.
The shared Redis example injects the fixture with ClassDataSource and orders the
dependent test with DependsOn, and the PostgreSQL example uses the injected
CancellationToken.
The xUnit.net module test projects exercise the Testcontainers.Xunit base classes
as a side effect, which Testcontainers.TUnit does not benefit from. Add a shared
PostgreSQL fixture example that uses every ADO.NET helper method, a test for the
remaining DbContainerTest helpers, and a test for the postponed start exception.
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Walkthrough

Adds Testcontainers.TUnit with isolated and shared container bases, database helpers, Testing Platform build support, documentation, and integration tests. The solution, package management, CI filtering, and coverage reporting include the new TUnit projects.

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TUnit support

Layer / File(s) Summary
Project and package wiring
Directory.Packages.props, Testcontainers.slnx, src/Testcontainers.TUnit/..., tests/Testcontainers.TUnit.Tests/...
Adds centrally managed TUnit packages, source and test projects, solution entries, imports, runner settings, and database test filtering.
Container lifecycle and logging
src/Testcontainers.TUnit/ContainerLifetime.cs, ContainerTest.cs, ContainerFixture.cs, Logger.cs, TestContextLogger.cs
Adds per-test and shared-fixture container lifetimes with cancellation-aware startup, exception propagation, disposal, and TUnit output logging.
Database container helpers
src/Testcontainers.TUnit/DbContainerTest.cs, DbContainerFixture.cs, DbContainerTestMethods.cs, IDbContainerTestMethods.cs
Adds provider-based connection, command, and batch helpers, including .NET 8-specific APIs and thread-safe lazy data-source creation.
Testing Platform build execution
build/Tasks.cs, build/Usings.cs
Detects Testing Platform support, runs supported projects with dotnet run, produces TRX and coverage reports, preserves the existing test path otherwise, and configures SonarQube coverage discovery.
Documentation and integration validation
docs/test_frameworks/tunit.md, mkdocs.yml, tests/Testcontainers.TUnit.Tests/*
Documents TUnit usage and adds Redis, PostgreSQL, fixture, isolation, ordering, database-helper, and startup-failure tests.

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  participant ContainerLifetime
  participant TestContextLogger
  participant TestContainer
  TUnit->>ContainerTest: Create test instance
  TUnit->>ContainerLifetime: InitializeAsync()
  ContainerLifetime->>TestContainer: StartAsync(cancellationToken)
  TestContainer->>TestContextLogger: Emit container logs
  TUnit->>ContainerTest: Execute test
  TUnit->>ContainerLifetime: DisposeAsync()
  ContainerLifetime->>TestContainer: DisposeAsync()
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In `@docs/test_frameworks/tunit.md`:
- Line 24: Update the guidance wording: change “may pointing” to “can point to”
and hyphenate “timed out test” as “timed-out test.”
- Line 90: Indent each ADO.NET C# code fence and its included snippet content by
four spaces beneath the corresponding === tab headers in the TUnit
documentation, covering all six tab sections and preserving the existing code
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In `@src/Testcontainers.TUnit/ContainerLifetime.cs`:
- Around line 81-84: Update InitializeAsync so the execution cancellationToken
is declared before the try block, then rethrow OperationCanceledException when
that token is canceled; continue capturing other startup exceptions in
_exception for deferred reporting.
- Around line 88-91: Update ContainerLifetime.DisposeAsyncCore to dispose the
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_exception; dispose _container.Value directly with ConfigureAwait(false) so
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accessing the exception-throwing Container property.

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- Line 15: Synchronize lazy initialization in the getter containing
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The database test project references every test project to discover container
implementations. Referencing the TUnit test project pulls TUnit's global usings
into the xUnit.net project and makes Assert and Assembly ambiguous. Exclude it
like the xUnit.net example projects.
…ontainers.TUnit

A cancellation requested by TUnit while the container starts is now propagated
instead of being postponed like other start failures, so the test is reported as
canceled. A container that was created but failed to start is disposed of when
the owning scope ends instead of being left to the resource reaper.

The ADO.NET data source is created through a thread-safe Lazy<T>, because TUnit
runs tests that share a fixture in parallel. Internal members are documented.
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@HofmeisterAn The remaining CI failure is unrelated to this PR: the Testcontainers.Minio tests fail because Docker Hub no longer serves minio/minio (or minio/mc). The repositories return 404 now; the "pull access denied" message is just how Docker Hub reports a missing repository to anonymous pulls. The images disappeared between 2026-09-11 and 2026-09-12 (the last green develop run on 2026-09-10 still pulled them), which lines up with MinIO winding down its Docker Hub publishing after archiving the community edition. The remaining red jobs are fail-fast cancellations caused by that one failure.

The same tag the module pins, RELEASE.2023-01-31T02-24-19Z, is still available at quay.io/minio/minio without login, so switching MinioBuilder.MinioImage to the Quay address would fix develop and every open PR. I can send that as a separate PR if you like.

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One idea that came out of the Minio failure, for a separate PR if it is of interest: a small CI job that runs docker manifest inspect against every module's default image constant before the test matrix starts. It needs no Docker daemon state and no image pulls, finishes in well under a minute, and would report a removed or renamed image as a single named failure instead of surfacing it inside an unrelated PR after a fail-fast cancellation of the whole matrix. Sixteen module defaults already live outside Docker Hub (Quay, GHCR, MCR, GCR, ICR), so the check would cover all registries the same way.

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