An exception occurred while invoking executor 'executor://mstestadapter/v1': Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Question

We are using Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2010 in our project. Since, we are using Microsoft Fakes, we could have not used the started Test functionality of

Answer 1

I had the same error message just now with Visual Studio 2017 using the new MSTest.Framework and MSTest.TestAdapter (to be able to use Live Unit Testing). It turned out I was using multiple versions of those packages in my solution. Consolidating them to the latest version solved the problem.