Wack xperf.exe is always fail during win8 metro app checking process.

Question

Hi,

My application for windows8 (metro app/C#) fail checking 5 from 5 times. Application itself started correct and faster than 1second, but xperf.exe from Windows Application Certification Kit is always failing. I have never interact with app during checking process (drink a cup of coffee in another room or etc) 

Maybe somebody known how I can restore xperf.exe?

Launch time performance

FAILED

Performance Launch

Error: Following results were encountered while running the Performance Launch test.

• Infrastructure Error: Failure occurred while processing application App.  Please consider re-running the test and avoid interacting with the application while tests are running.
• Exception:  Infrastructure Error: Timeout occurred during testing while running C:\Program Files\Windows Kits\8.0\App Certification Kit\..\Windows Performance Toolkit\xperf.exe.  Please consider re-running the test and  avoid interacting with the application while tests are running.

Suspend performance

FAILED

Performance Suspend

• Error: Following results were encountered while running the Performance Suspend test.

  • Infrastructure Error: Failure occurred while processing application App.  Please consider re-running the test and avoid interacting with the application while tests are running.
  • Exception:  Infrastructure Error: Timeout occurred during testing while running C:\Program Files\Windows Kits\8.0\App Certification Kit\..\Windows Performance Toolkit\xperf.exe.  Please consider re-running the test and  avoid interacting with the application while tests are running.

Answer 1

May be a known issue.
Please see: 'App certification kit fail for "hello World" app'

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biac [ http://bluewatersoft.cocolog-nifty.com/ ]

Answer 2

Yes, all like in this thread.

Sorry, Don't find it before.

Answer 3

It may be a know issue - but there is a workaround that worked for me:

Delete everything under \Users\[YOUR_USERNAME]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\AppCertKit and re-run the WACK tool again.

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Krishna