How to launch app, freshly-built by Team Build, for GUI testing?
Hi, I've searched the help and forums but haven't found the answer - I'm sure this must be a silly question: I'm trying to schedule GUI regressiontesting on our applications as part of our nightly automated build. Team Buildgets our C++ code from TFS each night and compiles/builds our applications. We now have a test project with test items linked to a Test Complete .pjs file located underneath the Visual Studio test project, with everything checked-in to TFS. The build service is set to run interactively so it can test the GUI. I've added the pre-/post- build events to copy the TC folder to the target directory. Team Build builds the code on a build agent VM called \\dev-agent, and the code ends up atC:\Builds\11\TFSProject\MySolution\bin on that machine. The TC project folder is getting copied there successfully. We also have a build drop location set up on the test controller itself,and the build output all ends up in a folder such as\\TFScontroller\Built Code\MyBuild\MyBuild_20150313.16, and again the TC project folder is getting copied there successfully. My question is - what is the recommended way of launching the freshly-build application at the start of each test? The location of the application to run changes with every build on the build controller (drop location), and the location on the build agent (where I'm assuming the tests and TestComplete will run) is also specific to that build agent (number "11" in my case, at present), and will be different if this build and these tests are run on a different agent, and also differ hugely from where they will appear on a tester/developer machine. Once the app is launched, all the clicking, checkpoints, etc., should all work, but I'm not sure at the moment how to actually start the application in the first place, ready for testing. Sorry if this is a stupid question - any help greatly appreciated! Thanks, Richard
