Testing Coded UI Tests

Question

Dears,

i read that we can run the coded UI tests without VS 2010 using test agents. But usually when we run a coded ui test in Visual Studio 2010 we can see whether it failed or not by using the test results pane. When it comes to a test agent how to make sure the test passed or failed?

thanks,

Ammar

Answer 1

you still get a test result file which you can open anytime in VisualStudio to see what all tests have failed/passed.

Answer 2

AmmarBIZ,

Rajeev is correct, you can create a .trx output file by using the /resultsfile flag when executing a test from mstest. 

See:

MSTest.exe Command-Line Options

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182489(v=VS.80).aspx

 

The .trx format is simple xml that is rendered readable in Visual Studio, but lets say you do not have Visual Studio and want to view the results in a nice formatted manner.  You can create a .bat to execute the test and then run trx2html on the resulting .trx to get a nice visual output in html.

TRX2HTML

http://trx2html.codeplex.com/

 

For example:

mstest /testcontainer:%test.dll% /resultsfile:%testResultsPath%testoutput.trx

trx2Html.exe "%testResultsPath%\testoutput.trx"

and then, you could do something really cool like send an e-mail of the results with blat.

set eMail=[e-mail]
set To=[e-mail]
set pass="MyPassword"
set subj=-s "QA Test Report"
set server=-server MyMailServer
set debug=-debug -log blat.log -timestamp 

blat testResults.html -to %To% -f %eMail% -p %pass% %subj% %server% %debug%

 

Cheers,

Paul