How to run xunit test with vNext Build 15 June 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (9) I was recently asked for help getting xunit test to run usingVSO build vNext. In this post I will w [More]
How to delete an Action Recording 26 May 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (4) I need to delete an Action Recording from a test case in Microsoft Test Manager. [More]
Using Microsoft Fakes to test code that sends email 13 February 2015 Donovan-Brown (0) In the past I used to use Neptune to test any code that sent email. Neptune is still very useful with Web Test but with unit testing I should be able to use Fakes. Below is a typical block of code that uses the SmtpClient class to send an email message. public static void SendMessage(string ... [More]
How to data bind a Visual Studio 2013 Coded UI Test 05 January 2015 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem I need to run the same Coded UI Test with different data. Solution Data bind your Coded UI Test. To data bind a test in Visual Studio you just need access to the data source and add attributes to the test. For this example we are going to use a simply CSV file. So add a new t... [More]
How to run Microsoft Test Manager Suite in vNext Deployment 18 November 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) While preparing to speak at TechEd Europe I really had to run Release Management and Desired State Configuration (DSC) through their paces. I already blogged about one of my challenges of implementing tokenization in a DSC based deployment here. I also wanted to run Coded UI tests as part of ... [More]
Speaking at St. Louis Days of .NET 2014 24 August 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Shortly after returning from speaking at TechEd Europe I will be speaking at St. Louis Days of .NET 2014. A Practical View of Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 This session provides a detailed technical presentation of the functionality and architecture of Release Management for Visual St... [More]
Getting Test Case Import Utilities for Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 to work with TFS 2013 18 June 2014 Donovan-Brown (0) Problem:Recently we had a customer try and use the Test Case Import Utilities for Visual Studi [More]
Microsoft Test Manager is not creating IntelliTrace files for my web applications 03 June 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Problem: When I run my test in MTM the bugs I log don't have IntelliTrace files attached. Solution: Run MTM as administrator. If you don't run MTM as administrator the process will not be able to instrument the code for IIS.
Running Microsoft Test Manager Suite with Release Management 25 January 2014 Donovan-Brown Work (0) Goal I want to run a Microsoft Test Manager Suite after my bits are deployed by Microsoft Release Management (InRelease). Solution: There appears to be a bug in the current "MTM Automated Tests Manager" tool that will fail if your build definition name contains spaces. So I took this opportu... [More]
I keep getting error when I run tcm.exe 23 January 2014 Donovan Work (0) Problem: I keep getting the following error when I attempt to run tcm.exe from the command line: “A test run must be created with at least one test case.” Solution: Open MTM and check the status of the test case from the Test tab. Make sure the test case state is not Error. If it is ... [More]