Hi,

I have written a wizard for setting up scheduled test executions using the command line tools that come with VSTS 2005.

Basically it just generates a batch file and creates a scheduled task in Windows scheduler to execute the batch. As the majority of the functionality is taken care of by the MS cmd line tools, this can do anything that a test executed from the interface can do, such as publishing results to a TFS server, or running a test set, or individual web/load test.

Is there any interest here for me to publish my code? If so I'll dedicate some of my bench time this week to tidying it up.

Paul

I'd be glad to host it for you here at Team System Rocks! in the Files section.  Shoot it to me at mickey_gousset@REMOVETHISSTATEMENT.hotmail.com and I'll put it up.

Thanks!

Mickey

OK, I'll do some work on it tomorrow and try to put together a package that can just be deployed into VSTS.

I'll email you once it's done.

Paul

Hi all,

I have pretty much finished this now. I've emailed it to the admins of this site, so it should appear in the dowloads section soon.

In the mean time you can grab it from www.testhouse.org/downloads

There's a contact email address on there if you have any questions/issues etc or you can just post in this thread, I check it fairly regularly.

Paul

Hi all,

I have recently started using this tool on client sites and have found some areas that need some extra functionallity.

So after xmas I'm going to add the following.

• code to open and read the specified vsmdi files to provide a drop down box so you can select the test you want to run. This will add a /test: option to the generated batch file.
• option to add dynamic logging filenames such as testname_%date%_%time% for when you want to log to files.
  

If anyone who has tried the tool would like anything else added or changed let me know soon as I'd like to release the update sometime in Feb/Mar next year.

Regards

Paul

Hi all,

First off sorry about the wait, but I have been really really bust recently and haven't had much time to look at this tool.

I have however now enlisted some support from one of our juniors to fix some bugs and add the new functionality I have mentioned.

I'm hoping to have the updated version ready in the next 2 weeks. Also we're working on a sort of whitepaper document to go with the tool to help people set up VS based monitoring solutions using Reporting Services and the VS command line tools. So what this space.

Paul

Hi all,

First off sorry about the wait, but I have been really really bust recently and haven't had much time to look at this tool.

I have however now enlisted some support from one of our juniors to fix some bugs and add the new functionality I have mentioned.

I'm hoping to have the updated version ready in the next 2 weeks. Also we're working on a sort of whitepaper document to go with the tool to help people set up VS based monitoring solutions using Reporting Services and the VS command line tools. So watch this space.

Paul