QA without Visual Studio having trouble viewing results

Question

We have QA which are using Test Manager and Team Explorer, but when they go to the build details and click on "View Test Results" they get a message about Test Tools not being installed. But, they do have Test Manager installed so I am not sure what is going on. I have the Visual Studio with Test Manager so I actually get to see the results. The system I thought was designed for QA to be able to view these results. Do we have something set up wrong? Is this not what was an intended use case? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi,

I've got two question need your clarification, please.

1. You mentioned Test Manager, so do you use Visual Studio Ultimate or VS Test Professional?
2. What's exact error message you see?

I'll try my best to assist.

Best Regards,

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Forrest Guo | MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

QA is using VS Test Professional.

 

The error dialog states: TF42008: The test case management package could not be loaded. Verify that Visual Studio Test Tools is installed and try again.

 

Answer 3

VS Test Professional doesn't have test features like Unit Testing, web performance testing, Coded UI test and Load testing. It has features like: Test Manager, Test case management and manual test execution, etc. 

So to view related test result, given your test is Unit test, you need VS Professional edition as minimum.  I'm referring to:

1. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products/2010-editions/product-comparison
2. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vststest/thread/6d8bcc19-3205-4209-b54d-0defc7720c31/

Please let me know if there's anything unclear, I'll try to assist.

 

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Forrest Guo | MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

Well that doesn't make any sense. How is QA to monitor the quality of the products and enter bugs into the system, if they cannot view the results from the tests we have created for them?

This really should be adjusted. I mean through MTLM QA can create CodedUI tests from recordings using the Test Proffesional, so why wouldn't they be able to view the results of them after my team has automated them as part of a Team Build using the Lab template?

Also, what really doesn't make sense is that the results are brought up in Test Manager even on my machine where I do have Ultimate, so why doesn't it come up in their Test Manager?

I mean, why would QA need a compiler just to view Test Results, and what are the value of these tests if we can't figure out a way to make the results visible to everyone in the orginization? I undestand why Ultimate would be needed to create these tests, but unless others can views hte results they are next to useless.

How would I go about putting in a feature request?

 

Answer 5

OK. Got your point. I'll try to get other people help on this question.

Best Regards,

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Forrest Guo | MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 6

Thank you for the feedback.

We will go ahead and submit it to the VS Development Team.

In addition you can use the Visual Studio Connect web site to submit your idea/feedback.

 

https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio

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Trevor Hancock (Microsoft)
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