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.NET Forum / Visual Studio.NET / General / February 2008Running Unit Test Remotely
Hi, Some of my future unit / component test may run op to several hours. I would like to run them simultaneously and on a different machine. Arguably, I misuse the unit test framework for something beyond just "unit" testing, but this is a quite convenient way. Does anyone know is there a convenient / straightforward (open source?) way to run unit tests (from vs 2008) on a remote server without installing (owning) VSTS? I.e. using msbuild? I am used to work with VSTS, but currently I am involved in a one men project where VSTS is overkill, both from a financial as well as the maintenance perspective. Martijn Kaag www.kaag.eu Hello Martijn, I'm not sure which feature you are talking on VSTS. Is it "Test Runs window" which could be used for viewing the status of active, queued, and completed test runs on remote computers? Please don't hesitate to correct me if I misunderstood anything here. If this the cause, Unit Testing has been supported on Visual Studio 2008 Profession Edition. You can choose VS 2008 Profession Edition, if VSTS is not appropriate for your current project. For detailed information about VS 2008 Product Comparison, you can refer to the following document. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/cc149003.aspx [Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison] Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any more concern. We are glad to assist you. Have a great day Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi Wen Yuan Wang, I am already using VS2008 Proffesional. In VSTS I am able to start a remote build, including the unit tests. Some of my Unit Test take too long to run to run locally. I have a 6 idle cores on a remote machine which i would like to utilize by running unit tests. Is is possible to run the test on a remote machine? Kinf regards, Martijn Kaag -- Martijn Kaag www.kaag.eu > Hello Martijn, > [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > ================================================== > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hello Martijn, I still haven't understood what mentioned by "Remote Unit Test" or "Remote Build". Do you mean the "Remote Build Server"? http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms400748(VS.80).aspx Could you please let me know the detailed steps about how do you perform "remote unit test" or "remote build"? Or send me a screen-shooting? My email address is v-wywang@microsoft.com If you have any more concern, please feel free to let me know. We are glad to assist you. Have a great day, Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi Wen Yuan, I haven’t stated my problem clearly. Sorry. I usually work with team foundation server. This allows me to start a build on the team server from my workstation. This build includes the unit tests and hence they do not affect the performance of my workstation. Unfortunately, even on the build server, I am not able to run multiple builds simultaneously. My requirements are twofold: 1. I need to run a unit test on another machine, such that it does not affect the performance of my local workstation. 2. I need to run multiple test simultaneously on this other machine, such that I can take advantage of all the available cores on this machine. A way to accomplish this is to build a command line tool (with some logging) that calls the method that performs the unit test . I could run multiple instances of this tool on another machine. As such, I utilize all the performance I have and I do not affect the performance of my local workstation. This solution lacks the standard unit tests results – which is not that much of a problem. However, it requires quite a lot of manual work to start a unit test. I could use reflection in this tool to overcome this issue, but that quilt take me up to a couple of days to build. My question is whether the exists a more standardized solution to fulfil these requirements. Kind regards, Martijn Kaag -- Martijn Kaag www.kaag.eu > Hello Martijn, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > ================================================== > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hello Martijn, Thanks for your reply. Yes, TFS build server doesn't support running multiple build tasks simultaneously. But, your remote machine is VERY strong. It's equipped with 6 cores. You want to take advantage of all the available cores on this machine. Thus, you build a command line tool. With this tool, you can run multiple instances to perform Unit Tests on your remote Powerful machine simultaneously. Now, your issue is that the command line tool doesn't return unit test results for you, correct? If I misunderstood anything here, please don't hesitate to correct me. What's the command tool you use to perform unit test? Is it MSTest.exe? As far as I know, MSTest will write test results to a well formatted xml file. You can view it in an XML viewer such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Microsoft Visual Studio. Did you specify the option: /resultsfile? Such as MSTest /testcontainer:TestProject1.dll /resultsfile:testResults1.trx Hope this helps. Let me know if there is anything unclear. We are glad to assist you. Have a great day, Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hello Wen Yuan, I have not build the command line tool yet and my main issue is that starting and deploying this command line tool on another machine involves manual work. What I hoped for is a standardized solution that allows me to select a unittest from Visual Studio and call a command like "run on unit test machine XXX". By copying all the assembles to a remote machine each test could run in its own context and they could be able to run simultaniously. From you response I understand that such a utilty does not (yet) exist. Given the current trend of utilizing excess server capacity this would be a usefull feature in VS2008 sp1 thought ;-) You did point me into a direction for building a command line tool myself: MSTest.exe. Is this available as a seperate download - including depencies - or does it require installing TFS? I am not too enthousiastic of installing full TFS on my physical (i.e. non virtual) host machine. Kind regards, Martijn Kaag  Signature-- Martijn Kaag www.kaag.eu > Hello Martijn, > Thanks for your reply. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > ================================================== > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hello Martijn, Thanks for your reply. MSTest is a test tool in Visual Studio. It's not available as a separate download. To use it, you have to install Visual Studio Editions which supports Unit Test Feature (such as Professional or Team Suit) on your remote machine. But you needn't to install TFS. Hope this helps. Let me know if there is anything unclear. We are glad to assist you. Have a great day, Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Hi Wen Yuan, I have all the information I need. Thanks for your help! Kind regards -- Martijn Kaag www.kaag.eu > Hello Martijn, > Thanks for your reply. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > ================================================== > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. You are welcome, Martijn. It's my pleasure to assist you. Have a great day, Best regards, Wen Yuan Microsoft Online Community Support ================================================== This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. NB The functionality I'd require is simular to http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182474(VS.80).aspx for load testing. Signature-- Martijn Kaag www.kaag.eu > Hello Martijn, > Thanks for your reply. [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > ================================================== > This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Free MagazinesGet these publications absolutely FREE for up to 12 months. There are no hidden fees and no obligation. Simply choose a title, complete the application form and submit it. Read more ...
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