The document outlines the steps to create a machine group and set up a build definition for remote testing using Visual Studio. Key steps include ensuring machines meet specific requirements, adding testing tasks, configuring them, and saving the build definition. The final steps involve queuing the build and reviewing the summary for test results and code coverage information.

1. Step 1
Let’s create a machine
group

2. Step 1
Click the ‘+’ icon on the top
left corner
Enter your machine details
with the admin creds for each
machine
As you can see I am using 2
machines here
Note:
Each machine should
a. Be domain joined
b. Have win7sp1 or higher.
With Win7sp1 you would need to install
.net 4.5 manually.
c. Have greater than 1GB
RAM and atleast 20GB
free
d. Have powershell
remoting enabled
powershell -command "& Enable-
PSRemoting -force"
winrm quickconfig

3. Step 1
Voila your machine group
has been created

4. Step 2
Create a simple build
definition by using the
“Visual Studio” build
definition

5. Step 2
Let’s work with the default
values for now.
You can save this build
definition as “New Visual
Studio definition 1”

6. Step 3
Now lets add in the tasks
related to remote testing
Click ‘+ Add build step’
Go to the “Test” tab
“Add” the “Visual Studio
Test Agent Deployment”
and “Visual Studio Test
using Test Agent” tasks

7. Step 3
“Add” the “Windows
Machine File Copy” task
We will use this task to copy
the build binaries from the
build machine to the target
test machines.

8. Step 3
Lets configure the tasks we
just added

9. Step 3

10. Step 3
Save your build definition
after you have entered all
the details

11. Step 4
Queue Build

12. Step 4

13. Step 5
Results
Here is a view of the build
summary page. The test run
is reported against the build
and you have a link to the
test run details view.
The build summary shows
me a summary of my code
coverage as well.

14. Step 5
Results
On clicking the test run link
from the build summary
page you are taken to the
test run summary view.
My .trx and .coverage files
are available for download

15. Step 5
I can drill down further by
clicking on the “Test results”
node
The test result list is
available and as you can see
the tests were distributed
across the two machines in
my machine group.