There are few different ways by which you can make your extension visible to test explorer in Visual Studio 11. Let us go through them one by one. 1. Drop it in “Extensions” folder This is the most simplest way to make the extension visible and it works...

Unit test explorer has bunch of processes (client-process, discovery/datacollection process, execution process) and depending upon what you want to debug, you should select the appropriate process and enable its logs. Once you have enabled the logs, the...

In case you are upgrading VS from the developer preview build to VS 11 beta , then there is a chance that you can face a problem while running tests from unit test explorer. The symptoms of the problem are that the tests will not get run and you will...

Michael has done a great post on how deployment works in mstest, so if you want to understand its working, I will strongly suggest you to go through it. In this post, I want to share the deployment item selection logic of mstest. i.e. If you have deployment...

Ordered test is a type of test in Visual Studio 2010  that contains other tests and provides capability of running them in the specified order. Ordered test supports timeout and if you are using its timeout, you should be aware of following: - Every...

In this post, I want to talk about the steps which I typically perform to enable the job agent logs for lab operations. 1. Stop the TFS job agent service. (net stop tfsjobagent) 2. Enable tracing for Tfs job agent. Take a backup of the tfsjobagent.exe...

For this post, I am assuming that the tests are stored in test case management store of Tfs and you are queuing the test run from the tcm clients (Either MTM, TCM.exe or lab workflow). In case your tests are only in VS and you are running them via VS...

In dev10, test settings in MTM does not expose all the configuration options which are present in Visual Studio. These configuration options include bucket size, deployment timeout among few others. I have created a small utility named UpdateTestSettings...

Here are the steps which I typically perform to enable lab agent logs. 1. Go to the lab agent installation directory (typically it is something like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 10.0). 2. Open the configuration file named LabAgentService...

Here are the steps which I typically perform to enable build agent/controller logs. 1. Go to the build agent/controller installation directory (typically it is something like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010\Tools). 2. Create a new...

In Visual Studio 2010, if you are executing manual tests on a virtual lab environment, then you are provided an option to take snapshot of the environment as mentioned here . These snapshots (or the link to snapshot) gets attached to the manual test case...

In lab management workflow, there is an option to take a snapshot of the environment after the application is deployed. This option is exposed in the workflow UI and is very useful in scenarios in which you want to revert to the environment state in which...

In this post, I will talk about how I normally debug the automated tests failure on a virtual lab environment. 1. Most of our automated test cases are executed as part of the end-to-end workflow . So I first check the build summary to find out how many...

Today I observed an interesting problem on one of our customer setup and thought that it will be good to share with you all so that if you encounter it, you don’t have to spend lot of time figuring out what’s going on. The setup was like this: - 1. On...

In Lab Management RC release, you might be using the “share snapshot” feature which essentially provides a shareable link for the snapshots. This feature is very useful when you want to share snapshots with others and expect them to connect to that particular...

Here are the steps which you should perform to enable test agent logs. 1. Go to your test agent installation directory (typically it is something like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\). 2. Open the agent service configuration...

In this article, I wanted to share what you should do if you have queued an automated test run on a test controller and its remain in "waiting for test controller” state for quite some time (as shown below).  Before we go to the trouble shooting...

Overview Lab Service account is newly introduced in Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 RC release and is briefly discussed here and here . It greatly simplifies the account management of core components (test agent and build agent) used to run tests and...

Here are the steps which you should perform to enable test controller logs. 1. Go to your test controller installation directory (typically it is something like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\). 2. Open the controller configuration...

In this post, I plan to talk about how you can create ‘testing enabled’ lab environment. I am assuming that you have already configured lab management and have a ‘lab ready virtual machine’ in your SCVMM library, but if you have not done any of that,...

In Visual Studio Team Lab Management , the following error message is observed on a testing capability enabled lab system when the lab system had lost trust relationship with the domain. TF267055: The machine is not ready to run tests because of the following...

In Microsoft Test and Lab Manager , the above error message is observed during the execution of an automated test run on a test controller. It can occur in either of the following conditions. 1. The account under which test controller is running does...

In Visual Studio Team Lab Management Beta2 , the above error message is normally observed on a testing capability enabled lab environment/lab system when firewall service is blocking the calls to test controller . To resolve this, ensure that firewall...

In Visual Studio Team Lab Management Beta2 , the above error message is observed on a testing capability enabled lab environment/lab system when the service account for test controller/agent are not properly configured. In this case, following error will...

I have observed the above error message a couple of times on windows xp machines when the test agent service is restarted. The service does not start due to this error and in test agent log file following stack trace is observed. ASEEMB-SPEARHEA\QTAgentService...