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TFS 2015–Visual Studio Test Runner

After upgrading a XAML build template to TFS 2015, some of our unit tests started to fail. I had no idea what was causing the issue, so I tried to enable any kind of logging I could.

I knew that behind the scenes the Build agent was calling the vstest.console.exe, but no matter what I tried I noticed that I couldn’t find the exact parameters that were used to call this test runner Bedroefde emoticon.

I’m not the only one who had this problem, as an issue had already been raised on Uservoice, http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studio/suggestions/6073220-diagnostics-logs-should-show-the-vstest-console-co.

Remark: Maybe another good reason to upgrade to the new Build system in TFS 2015, as the Visual Studio Test step nicely logs the exact parameters.

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