Using the on premise TFS 2015 XAML build agent. I need to change the job timeout value. Preferable on a build definition by build definition basis. However if I have to just changing the agent timeout value is fine as well.
It appears that the timeout is current 30 minutes.
I see no options on the Team Foundation Server Administrator Console, and no options in the build definitions.
Please note this is not a vNext build
You can change the execution time by editing the XAML build definition's "Advanced" in the Process
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We have TFS2015 and I am trialling Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 (no installation disk).
I am now looking for an ISO with Microsoft Test Agents for Visual Studio 2015.
Documentation for VS 2015 states that these ISOs should be available:
I can get the web installer (exe) for the Agents from here, but where can I get the ISO?
Please note: I need the ISO to get hold of Test Controller 2015 to run Load Tests, so just having the Agents is not enough.
Also, I have tried using Test Agents 2015 with Test Controller 2013, and my Agent configuration fails with a time out (whilst attempting to restart the service).
And finally, I have tried using Test Agents 2013 with TFS2015, which fails with a "Registry lookup failed" error on the "Agent Deployment" build step in our build definition (the powershell scripts used in this step assume that there is a path for an installed Test Agent 2015 in your registry). This problem is fixed by providing a path to Test Agent 2015 installer in "Test Agent Location" property of that build step.
So, I am now trying to locate the ISO with Test Agents for Visual Studio 2015 - does anybody know where I can get it from, please?
It was announced that Test Agent 2015 no longer needed a Test Controller, as the agent orchestration now is managed by the server (TFS or VSTS). You can also refer this post.
Q: Will the Test Agent 2015 support all the scenarios supported by
Test Controller and Test Agent of Visual Studio 2013?
A: We recommend you use Agents for Visual Studio 2015 in all the new automated testing scenarios. You can use the Deploy Test Agents task in a build definition to download and install the test agents on your machine. The following table shows the scenarios supported by Agents for Visual Studio 2013 and the alternatives for Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 and Team Services (TS).
For your situation, seems you are using on-premises Load Test , you need to use Test Controller/Test Agentes2013 Update5 . More information, please refer Using a Test Controller and Test Agents in a Load Test
As for ISO files, it seems agent for VS2013
are using the .iso including test agents and test controls in download center. But for agent for Vs2015 are just using .exe in download center.
Yes, of course, go to the page below:
https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/older-downloads/
at the scroll down the page you will see VS2015, after clicking download you will need to sign in,
then could choose the corresponding version you want to download:
do remember to sign in to Microsoft for downloading agents.
https://my.visualstudio.com/Downloads?q=Visual%20Studio%202015%20Update%203
My team has several Selenium Unit Tests that we run locally. Selenium opens a browser and runs through our application. This works fine locally. Now, management wants to run the tests, on demand, via TFS. Should be easy, right? WRONG!
I am having trouble setting up our TFS 2015 server to run these Selenium UI tests.
Everything I read tells me to run the "Test Agent for Visual Studio 2015" tool. Problem is, the tool does not exist on my machine and I cannot understand why. I have tried many things, like installing the MS Visual Studio "Agents", with no luck.
When I try to open the freshly installed "Agents" I get a message saying: "Test Agent for Visual Studio 2015 has no configuration tool".
So the VS.NET "Agents" panel never opens. Seems bizarre to me that I installed something that needs further configuration, with no way to perform that configuration.
From further reading, I think I need to provision a group machine in the TFS web administration page, but am totally unsure if that's required for my situation, as I cannot even get past the basics here.
I see other people have had this problem, with very little response or help from Microsoft. I am a little baffled at why this seems so very difficult to do on a TFS server? It runs locally just fine, like a breeze. But TFS? It's like a giant puzzle.
Once this is working, I need to configure the test agent to run in "interactive mode" so it can run the browser but I cannot even begin to figure that out yet. Where do you set it to "run interactive" because I dont see any of those options. Am I missing TFS installation components? Do I have the wrong Visual Studio? Do I need the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio to be able to perform UI tests with the browser? We have the Professional edition.
Here is someone with the same problem:
https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/1712725/test-agent-for-visual-studio-2015-has-no-configuration-tool
Does anyone have any ideas or instructions on how to setup the "Test Agent" I need to run my team's existing Selenium UI tests in TFS2015? Seems very difficult when it should not be.
In the link you provided, Allen has explained that "There is no configuration UI with the test agent anymore. This is because we have simplified the existing remote testing scenario by doing the install and configuration for you when running via the build pipeline."
TFS 2015 Update2 now have a "Run Functional Test" task that you can use to run tests (included Coded UI Tests) against machine groups. So, first you have to upgrade your TFS 2015 to TFS 2015 Update2 if you haven't.
The tasks you need for test scenarios using Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) or Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015:
Create environments from physical or virtual machines that you've already set up.
Set up your build to run your app and tests in the environments that you created.
After your build finishes, review your test results to start resolving problems that you found.
So, your build process template should look like the screenshot below. You need to specify every task to meet the requirement of your project. All TFS tasks can be found at this website, you can get more information for each task from it. Coded UI or Selenium tests that are running on full fidelity browsers would need Interactive Process checked.:
At my company we use Visual Studio Online for source control and have an onsite build server running TFS 2013 Update 5 that we use for builds and integration tests. We have an integration build scheduled to run at midnight Sunday through Thursday. On random nights, the build will fail with the following error message:
Please contact your administrator. There was an error contacting the server.
Technical information (for administrator):
HTTP code 302: Found
This message shows up for nearly every source file in the solution.
However, we have never experienced this error when running the build manually during the day.
Can anyone provide any insight as to what might be going on and how I can resolve it?
Visual Studio service may be maintained from time to time. Check Visual Studio Online Service status first when the error occur from this website: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/support/support-overview-vs.aspx.
I am having trouble getting my builds to run when using MSBuild in Team Foundation Server 2015. We are hosting the application on an internal server. I have configured the Controller and Agent, which seems to be okay. The "Visual Studio Team Foundation Build Service Host 2015" service is running.
When I try to queue the build, I get the following message, even though I am not using Visual Studio Online:
When I ckick OK, the build seems to be queued, but I see the following message forever:
Can anyone tell me what I am missing?
It looks like you are attempting to build a Vnext build and not a Xaml type build. You will need to set up the Vnext agent in order to get that to work. I personally use both Xaml and Vnext builds
Hope this helps!
Your build agent service is not start. Click Properties under your agent.Mark the "Build agent service is enabled"
The normal state of build control and build agent should look like as below:
I have setup a tfs 2012 server with the build controller and the build agent. I have a simple visual studio 2012 solution with a windows console application project and a test project on a client machine. Test impact analysis is enabled in the build definition.
Simply put, the impacted tests list that should appear on each build performed on the tfs server is never populated. I have tried to change the test runner from vs runner to mstest to no avail.
Please advise. Thanks.
EDIT: I installed VS 2012 on the server. This enabled code coverage, but still no impact analysis.
Fortunately I fixed the 'problem'.
For TIA to work, you need to successfully complete a test case in test manager, passing all test steps. Only then does the analysis file get generated. Also, I had problems with the video recording module of the test controller, which apparently also prevents the file from being generated sometimes, though this could just be a coincidence.
After successfully generating the file, subsequent builds will now have a baseline to compare against.
Have fun.