In a previous post, Unit testing with Visual C++ 2012, the unit testing features of Visual Studio 2012 were shown to be an effective way to improve software quality by introducing various tests. Still, instead of having to run these tests inside the Visual Studio IDE, it would be even better to integrate these tests into a release management software, so that they are automatically performed during each build of the system.
For running these unit tests outside the Visual Studio IDE, from this MSDN page we find out that there are three ways to run them from the command line: