Tag Archives: hosted build controller

Reproduce unit test failures from Hosted Build Controller

Posted on April 15, 2014 by erictummers

Our builds succeed with warnings. After investigation of the output we noticed failing unit tests. But local they run fine. Here’s what we did to troubleshoot and fix the issue. First we downloaded the build output from the drop location. … Continue reading →

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Run Selenium from visualstudio.com

Posted on February 12, 2014 by erictummers

You can host your project in Visualstudio.com and still run selenium tests in the build. The hosted build controller does not support it (details) and cannot be adjusted. Why not create your own Build Controller in Azure VM? Here is … Continue reading →

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Execute xunit tests on hosted build controller

Posted on February 11, 2014 by erictummers

You can use xunit to unit test on the hosted build controller by installing the xunit.runner.visualstudio package. But when the Build is done, there was an error. The testrunner tries to discover the unittests in xunit.runner.visualstudio.testadapter.dll. Why? Because it matches … Continue reading →

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