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I have seen few people writing a lot of code in their class cleanup and then complaining that the clean-up is timing out and how they can increase this timeout. To do this, I suggest them the following steps: - Ensure that your class cleanup is indeed...

In VS 2012, when you are running mstest based tests, then the framework deletes the test results directory when the following condition is met. All the test case passes. There is no attachment which got produced in the test run. The option to preserve...

Here are the steps which you should perform to enable mstest logs. 1. Go to your mstest installation directory via an administrator command prompt. (typically the installation directory is something like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7...

Here is a code snippet which you can use to find out area paths/iteration paths changed in a project or project collection. # Load Client Assembly [Reflection.Assembly]::Load(“Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken...

Here is a code snippet which you can use to find test points assigned to a particular person. # Load Client Assembly [Reflection.Assembly]::Load(“Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a”); [Reflection...

In couple of my previous posts, I talked about what are the important events raised by test management service and how code for one such event listener looks like . In this post, I will talk about what exact steps I did to write my test management event...

I was looking at this question on the MTM forum and wanted to find out answers for following 2 questions. How can a user find out whether an action recording is associated with a test or not? How can a user delete the associated action recording? For...

Here are the steps you should perform to enable MTM logs: - Go to the MTM installation directory (typically it is something like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\) Open the MTM configuration file (mtm.exe.config) from an administrative...

One of my customer is running into an issue while customizing his BDT workflow and to debug the issue, I have just now created a power-shell script which lists down the test points belonging to a particular suite/configuration. Since I have not seen any...

In one of my previous post , I talked about what all test management related events are being published by the server. In this post, I want to share a sample code snippet that you can use to listen to one such event (TestRunChangedNotification). ...

I was trying to run an automated test using TCM.exe and the executable was failing with a message saying “A test run must be created with at-least one test case.” On looking at the code, I found why it is failing and what should I do to come out of this...

Here are the steps you should follow to achieve this. Copy the following contents to a power shell script file (say fqdn.ps1) # Load the binaries [Reflection.Assembly]::Load(“Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken...

One of the customer reported a problem saying that whenever he is trying to assign a build to the test plan in MTM, the assignment fails with error “Build XXX cannot be found”.  On investigations, Nipun from the team found that it was failing because...

Recently one of the customer asked an interesting question that his test agent is running under a local account (machineName\myaccount) but the deployment script is not running under that account and is rather running under a machine account. This was...

If you are not able to run unit tests when VS 2010 and VS 2012 are installed on the same machine, then please read on. There is a known issue here and this post talks about how you can verify that you are running into the same issue or not and secondly...

One of the customer wanted to read more about MTM and Nivedita, PM in the team,  sent out the following resources. Here I am sharing the same information with all of you. MSDN: Testing with Microsoft Test Manager   Quick Start Guide for Manual...

I have seen customers running into this problem once in a while where they mention that their build is failing intermittently with the following error. C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v10.0\TeamTest\Microsoft.TeamTest.targets (14...

One of the internal customer asked this question couple of days back that if a tester has multiple monitors, then which monitor does MTM video recording records? Does it record the one which is showing MTM, does it record a specific one or does it record...

Here are the steps which I typically do to configure the test controller with tfspreview. - Install 2012 RTM Test Controller. - Launch test controller configuration tool and point it to my tfspreview.com account ( http://blah.tfspreview.com ) - Specify...

Few days back, Vijay sent a mail to an internal customer on the platforms/OS which MTM 2012 supports. I am just pasting the contents of his mail here as it is useful for everyone. Supported Operating Systems •Windows 7 (x86 and x64) •Windows 8 (x86 and...

Test Management service in Team Foundation Server 2012 raises notifications on some specific actions by its users. You can subscribe to these notifications to understand what’s going on in the server. Here are some of the important notifications which...

This post shares code snippets on how to do some common operations using Test Management APIs. Snippet #1 : – Given a test run, find associated test suite. // Query results from the run. ITestCaseResult result = testManagementRun.QueryResults()[0]; /...

If you are not able to open test case on tfspreview and are using IE10 on windows 8 release preview build (build # 8400) and are observing that browser crashes while opening the test case, then please read on. Note: - This is an issue only with this interim...

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...