TFS Build Test Results

Question

We're working on Visual Studio 2010 and TFS 2010. We have our own BuildTemplate that is a copy of default template, but with some additions like (create Directory...), but the main point, that all that is in DefaultTemplate - is left.

We have witten "unit" tests that also are working. I have made Build definition that runs all the unit tests. Have read the information here - http://geekswithblogs.net/jakob/archive/2009/06/03/tfs-team-build-2010-running-unit-tests.aspx and a lot of other places also.

Build runs just perfect, the only thing that is'nt working is a Build summary - Test results, Code coverage like in the link above.

So when i'm watching Activity log while building my application, it shows that:

Run MSTest for Test Assemblies c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\MSTest.exe /nologo /usestderr /testSettings:"C:\Builds\7\**Project**\**BuildName**\Sources\**ProgramName**\**ProgNameAndVersion**\Solutions\**SolutionName**\localtestrunDebug.testrunconfig" /searchpathroot:"C:\Builds\7\**Project**\**BuildName**\Binaries" /resultsfileroot:"C:\Builds\7\**Project**\**BuildName**\TestResults" /testcontainer:"C:\Builds\7\**Project**\**BuildName**\Binaries\**TestProjectName**.dll" /publish:"http://***:8080/tfs/MSLN" /publishbuild:"***:///Build/Build/14599" /teamproject:"**ProjectName**" /platform:"x86" /flavor:"**Release**"  Loading C:\Builds\7\**Project**\**BuildName**\Sources\**ProgramName**\**ProgNameAndVersion**\Solutions\**SolutionName**\localtestrunDebug.testrunconfig... Loading C:\Builds\7\**Project**\**BuildName**\Binaries\**TestProjectName**.dll... Starting execution...  Results               Top Level Tests -------               --------------- Failed                ***.Test.*** Failed                ***.Test.*** Failed                ***.Test.*** Passed                ***.Test.*** Passed                ***.Test.*** Inconclusive          ***.Test.*** Inconclusive          ***.Test.*** Passed                ***.Test.*** <many other tests> ... 5/154 test(s) Passed, 147 Failed, 2 Inconclusive  Summary ------- Test Run Failed. Failed        147 Passed          5 Inconclusive    2 ----------------- Total         154 Results file:  C:\Builds\7\**Project**\**BuildName**\TestResults\***tfsbuild_***TFSBUILDER 2013-04-19 10_03_42_x86_Release.trx Test Settings: Local Test Run 

And at the end of the Build summary is blank:

1 projects/solutions compiled No Test Results No Code Coverage Results

Why does it not show test results like in the link: http://geekswithblogs.net/jakob/archive/2009/06/03/tfs-team-build-2010-running-unit-tests.aspx

I'm a starter in TFS so help me with this by giving advices in simple language =)

This link seems to have moved to (edited 2019-09-23): https://blog.ehn.nu/2009/06/tfs-team-build-2010-executing-unit-tests/

Answer 1

You probably don't have required permissions to see test results. Please check you permissions for example with TFS 2010 Power Tools or some other tool. With TFS Power Tool you go to Team > Team Project Settings > Security and check View test runs permission on the group that you are in.