How to get currently active Test Plan within MTM within a custom WorkItem control?

Question

I am writing a custom WorkItem control and it integrates nicely into MTM. I can easily find out the current Project loaded into MTM via the WorkItem; but I can't work out how to get the currently selected TestPlan within MTM.

Can I find out the currently selected Test Plan within a custom WorkItem control within MTM?

The TestPlan contains lots of extra information we can use within the control and it will be a better experience if the user does not have to explicitly specify the Test Plan given the context is clear.

Grey Ham

 

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Answer 1

Hi,

Do you want this information manually or through code?

Thanks

Answer 2

Through code.

The ServiceProvider passed in to the IWorkItemControl doesn't seem to expose anything to give me access to the currently selected Test Plan. Given that the Test Plan *HAS* to be selected before I can open a Work Item / Test Case within MTM, and my custom control is intended to be used within MTM, it would be ideal if I could determine the Test Plan automatically via a Service call. I can easily deal with the situation where the control is used within VS2010 and the Test Plan is not available.

If I can get to the Test Plan through the API, I can locate all of its information that I need automatically and that will improve the user experience.

Grey Ham

PS: I am aware I can have the user manually select the Test Plan within the control, but it seems... redundant, given the context is already clearly established.

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Answer 3

I have the same Problem. I'm running a test over MTM. At the testingmachine there is no way to get over the TFS-API to the current Testplan, in that the test is running.

It would be very helpful to get a hint how to get that info.

Thanks

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