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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 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...

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 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...

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 dev10/dev11, 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 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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 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...

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 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...