We have a Visual Studio 2015 solution containing some C++ projects and some tests based on Google Test Framework.
Now I would like to run those tests with the quite new TFS 2015 build features. I know that there is the "Visual Studio Test" build step that is able to run custom test adapters (like the Google Test Adapter?).
Is this the easiest way to setup things? What exactly has to be installed on the (on premise) TFS2015 build server and how to configure the build steps?
Thanks for you help! Sebastian
Yes, the simplest way is just using google test adapter in ""Visual Studio Test" build " task. Just as the feature statement which will using VSTest.Console.exe
You need to install visual studio on your build server(agent). About how to conigure the build steps, there has been a detailed tutorial with Xunit test which also applies to google test. Plesae refer this blog: Running xUnit tests in TFS Build vNext
Related
Question:
How do I run NUnit tests on TFS?
Attempts:
I've searched the web and am still struggling to figure out the exact steps required to accomplish (to what I believe is) a trivial task.
I added the NUnit3TestAdapter package to my test project.
However, my tests are still not being discovered.
TFS displays the following message:
No test runs are available for this build. Enable automated tests in
your build pipeline by running your test framework of choice, such as
JUnit, Visual Studio Test, or xUnit. If you choose to run tests using
a custom task or runner, you can publish results using the Publish
Test Results task.
Expectation:
I'm surprised that NUnit is not an option that I can just select from.Hence, it's the standard unit test framework for .Net.
How do I run NUnit tests on TFS?
There is a blog here describes clearly how to run NUnit tests on TFS: Running NUnit Tests in a TFS 2015 Build vNext
Simply summarized as follows:
Add Nuget Package for NUnit Test Adapter
Specify path of custom Test Adapter inside build definition
Copying adapters inside Visual Studio TestWindows folder
Specify Path to Custom Test Adapter with nunit packages
Note：
You do need to edit the Visual Studio Test task’s advanced settings
to point at the NuGet packages folder for your solution (which will be
populated via NuGet restore) so the custom nUnit test adaptor can be
found i.e. usually setting it to $(Build.SourcesDirectory)\packages
Some other tutorial for you reference:
xUnit or NUnit with Visual Studio Online Build
Running nUnit and Jasmine.JS unit tests in TFS/VSO vNext build
Installed TFS 2017 U2 and I can see one of new features is that Visual Studio Test is one of the available tasks in Release management but I can not find any guidance how to integrate Visual Studio webtests into that. Is it possible now properly incoporate WebTest straight up from TFS UI?
No, Visual Studio Test task is using vstest.console.exe to execute tests which is documented at VSTest.Console.exe Command-Line Options.
To run a web test you need to use Visual Studio and MSTest.exe. For more tutorial about the integration of web test and TFS, you could refer below links:
Guide to get started with Visual Studio Web Load Testing and
Automation
Running WebTests as part of a VSTS VNext Release pipeline
I am using the TFS 2013\VS 2013 professional editions for continuous build. Am looking to use an open source tool like OpenCover for code coverage. I have no prior experience in code coverage tools. I installed the OpenCover UI from Nuget but not sure how to include Codecoverage in integrated build in TFS. Getting "No Code Coverage Results" when the build runs.
I enabled code coverage under Automated tests node in build definition.
Any suggestion on how to implement code coverage in TFS\VS 2013 Profession edition would be greatly appreciated.
If you mean Enabled Code Coverage in the build definition just like below screeshot.
This is VS build-in code coverage, according to the Compare VS offerings site, only Visual Studio Enterprise has Code Coverage feature, so if you use TFS for your CI build and want to use the built-in code coverage feature, installing VS Enterprise on your build agent machine is required.
If you want to integrate OpenCover with TFS XAML build, you need to customize your build process template, add a custom activity in the build definition to trigger the opencover command for generating the report.
Created a RunCoverage.cmd at the root of my source folder
Installed / copied in TFS Servers the Opencover binaries and added into Path(must restart TFS Services to enable TFS to see it).
Created a new actitivity in the build definition, that is, editing the build template (before sonar execution activity) to run the cmd:
Running command line statements from TFS custom activity
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg265783.aspx
There is the cmd contents:
#REM #echo suppresses command line. ^ is line continuation character
#ECHO Executing OpenCover...
OpenCover.Console.exe -register:user ^
-target:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe" ^
-targetargs:"/testcontainer:%~dp0test.dll /usestderr /resultsfile:%~dp0MSTestsResults.trx" ^
-output:%~dp0opencovertests.xml
More details please refer Naim Raja Díaz's answer in this similar question:Integration of OpenCover with TFS
We have come across an issue where TFS build fails to trigger coded UI tests, based on how the Test Settings file is specified in the build definition.
We have been unable to get CodedUI test project to run. The goal is to have it run on a separate machine (virtual machine). We have configured the test controller and agent on the VM. We have also set it to run as interactive process. When we run build it partially succeeds and the following test error is reported
The failure message returned is as below:
MsTestAdapter failed to discover tests in class ‘MVC_Test.MVCTest_CUI’ of assembly ‘C:\Builds\1\Test_COE\MVCAppFramework\bin\MVC_Test.dll’. Reason Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.CodedUITestFramework, Version=12.0.0.0. Culture =neutral, PublickeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified..
Setup / Environment Details:
Visual studio 2015 ultimate
TFS server 2015
Agents for Visual studio 2015(Test Controller and Test Agents)
Test agent is installed as interactive process for Coded UI tests
Your CodedUI tests were written in the 2013 version of VS. I believe you have two options:
Install the Agents for Visual Studio 2013 on your test agent
Use binding redirects to automatically use the newer version as described in this TFS 2010 to 2015 Upgrade: CodedUI Feature Test Builds blog post
UPDATE
You could try upgrading your CodedUI DLLS to the VS2015 versions (14.0.0.0).
It cannot find the dll libraries for Version 12.0 which provided by VS2013. Install VS2013 on the test agent and then retry.
How can I get my TFS build to run my Specflow tests? I have the tests running in the local VS build, but they aren't being picked up in the TFS build. Please could someone post the steps I would take to have the build run the specflow tests, and report on the results. Thanks.
I guess specflow uses nunit tests. you need to set up nunit in build server
http://www.mytechfinds.com/articles/software-testing/6-test-automation/72-running-nunit-tests-from-team-foundation-server-2012-continuous-integration-build
If you use SpecRun, it will automatically take care of TFS Build integration. Installing SpecRun is just referring the NuGet package from the SpecFlow project.