Using assetions is critical for our testing. Unfortunately, Qt Vs Tools seems to disable assertions by forcing NDEBUG define for some reason - even in Debug configuration).

Steps to replicate:

1) Create new "Qt Console Application" project

2) Open "main.cpp" and add " assert(false == true);" before Qt application initialization:

3) Run the app in Debug mode - assertion is not hit

4) Go to "assert" definition, NDEBUG seems to be defined: