I want to make sure that I can run my unit test developed using specflow-c# from MTM on my local machine.
Background info:
- Developed the unit test methods using SpecFlow-C#
- Checked in my project to TFS
Problem:
- Now can anyone guide me step by step, how to achieve the integration of this unit methods.
I have gone through various articles of the MSDN, but somehow i get lost in there.
I have learnt that i need to create a build defination (But how to?), setup test controller and test agent (Again how?).
Please guide me in this.
Thanks in advance.
MTM needs three things to execute tests:
A build with which to associate the test run. It can only read from TFS. If you're not using TFS for build/deployment you can run the TFSBuild.exe tool to create a dummy build in TFS to point MTM to.
A test lab in which to run the test. Install both the controller and agent on your local machine. Open the agent configuration tool and register it to the controller. Open the controller configuration tool and register it with TFS Team Project Collection. Once this is done, you should be able to see the controller when setting up the lab environment in MTM.
A test case in TFS which is associated with a unit test. As far as I know, this association must be made in Visual Studio. In Team Explorer, open up the work items. Find your test case and click on the Associated Automation tab. In the Test Name field you select a unit test method to tie to the testcase. This is the test that gets run when the testcase is executed in MTM.
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I created a build definition that runs automated tests using MTM build environments and test suites. I recently created a Visual Studio Load Test, which can be added to a test suite just like any test method marked with the [TestMethod] attribute. However, when I run the build, I get no errors and it appears the aggregate tests don't run. Is there a way to make this work?
I found this article: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/testingspot/2013/01/22/how-to-automatically-run-a-load-test-as-part-of-a-build/ which describes a way to do it, but I can't find a build template that matches what he describes, and it appears this only allows you to run a single load test.
Also, when you configure a test controller, there is an option to configure it for load testing, but to do this, you must unregister it from the Team Project Collection. If this is done, it appears the controller can no longer be used in an environments to run project automated tests. This defeats the purpose of what I want to do and makes it seem that Load Tests and Team Projects are mutually exclusive. Is this the case? If so, this is a big oversight. Load tests are the kind of thing you would like to run automatically. Thanks for the help.
You are unfortunately right. A test controller used for load testing cannot be used for other automated test execution 'at the same time'. In your scenario I would recommend that you setup a different test controller and agent for load testing and you would be able to queue it as a part of your build to achieve what you are looking for.
There is no special build process template for this case.
I'm new to Coded UI testing and TFS. I've written a coded UI test for my web application and looking for different options to automatically run it. Apparently the first option is to run it from visual studio. I have also found an article explaining how to associate a test method with a test case however I don't know whether I can run my test method (s) from TFS or not? How about running them with my build? I know the unit tests can be run with the build however I'm not sure about coded UI tests.
Yes, it is possible for you to run Coded UI test in the TFS build process.
Firstly, you need to configure the Team Build Service Host run as an interactive process. See this link.
Secondly, add the Coded UI test project into TFS Version Control.
Thirdly, create a build definition to build the Coded UI test project, and also specify tests to run.
Please have a check of this blog for the detailed steps: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mathew_aniyan/archive/2009/05/26/coded-ui-test-in-a-team-build.aspx
I have been using the Build-Deploy-Test build workflow for TFS 2010 (see here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/gg131922.aspx) and have come up against a very annoying limitation.
Here is what I have done:
Setup a build to be queued
Configured it to restore to a test-ready snapshot
Added some deployment steps; in this case starting mongo db
I then came to the step where you configure which tests to run and hit an issue. Firstly you need configure a test plan with some test suites; a test suite consisting of test cases. The problem is that each test case can only be associated with a single unit test.
With having to create a test case per unit test, it means that every time a unit test is added a new test case must be created. Is there any way you can associate many unit tests with a test suite that can be ran in the Build-Deploy-Test build workflow.
One way around this problem is to update your test suite using the tcm.exe testcase /import /syncsuite: command. This command has to be run before test execution begins and a logical place to add it would be into the build template.
I suggest you to use Test List Editor in Test Tab on Visual Studio, create your differents lists of tests, organize your tests based on functionnal after that you can execute on your build list of tests by entering name of list.
link : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182463(v=vs.100).aspx
For configuring Build Definition, i suggets you to edit & select Automated Test Tab and insert list.
link : http://support.smartbear.com/articles/testcomplete/testcomplete-and-team-build/
I started work with Coded UI and Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).
Consider, I created test-case in MTM with some steps.
I can running it manually and record my actions for each step. Then I can associate CodedUI test with test-case in MTM. VisualStudio automatically generates recorded steps to c# methods with the same names.
this.UIMap.OpenSAV();
this.UIMap.AcceptTerms();
this.UIMap.LoginAsInternal();
this.UIMap.DeclineUpdates();
this.UIMap.SelectEffectivity();
I need inverse problem. I want create CodedUI test with some methods, associate it with test case so that in test-case in MTM happend steps with names of methods.
Link to image of steps in MTM. Steps in MTM
This isn't a supported scenario. You could use the exploratory testing tool to quickly run through the test and generate your test steps for you though, then do the association with your coded ui test.
I am working with an n-tiered architecture in Visual Studio 2008 (Developer Edition), and I have run into an issue.
We are running unit tests on every method of our services layer, and I am attempting to see the code coverage results, to ensure I'm hitting all the main paths through my methods.
When I attempt to view the results, I am informed that the test run did not have code coverage enabled. I tried editing the test run configuration through test -> edit test run configurations, only to discover that there were none found.
I have yet to discover how to create a test run configuration so that I can enable code coverage results.
How do I create the configuration?
Right-click the solution, choose Add, New item, choose Test run configuration in the resulting dialog. The only tricky part is that you don't get this choice unless you right-click the solution.