Minimal installation required to get TCM.exe working

Question

I want to use TCM.exe only for publishing results to the TFS2010 server. I can install full VS and the TCM.exe will work. But I dont want to do so.

Can anyone tell me, what is minimal installation should I do to get the TCM.exe working.

Answer 1

Hi Abhijit,

Nice to see you here  :)

I think you will need the full version of VS installed to run tcm.

However, you need to install it only on one machine. To run the tests on different machines, you can just have the test agent installed. You can create an environment out of these machines. Then from the machine which has VS installed, you can run the tcm run /create command to run tests on an environment http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff942469.aspx

The other option to run tests on different machines with just test agent installed is touse mstest command.

Thanks,

Anuj

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Answer 2

Thanks Anuj J I have installed Test Agent to get MSTEST running, but it does not install TCM.

What I am really doing is, running test cases using MSTEST and the publishing the results using TCM. I don’t want ton install lot of stuff since the test machines are low end.

I got is working by copying TCM.exe and bunch of dlls from another machine to Commen7\IDE folder.

The DLLs copied are -

1. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client.dll
2. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Common.dll
3. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.dll
4. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common.dll
5. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Client.dll
6. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Common.dll
7. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Controller.dll
8. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client.dll
9. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.DataStoreLoader.dll
10. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Client.dll
11. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Common.dll
12. Microsoft.TeamFoundation.WorkItemTracking.Proxy.dll
13. Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.Client.dll
14. Microsoft.WITDataStore.dll
15. TCM.exe
16. TCM.exe.config

Thanks.