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May 2009 - Posts

Unable to publish test results from Visual Studio to TFS

Error message similar to:

username@servername (mailto:username@servername) 2008-10-13 2:21:50          0.28 MB            10/13/2008 3:19:14 PM    Failed    Access to the path '\\DropFolder\Buildname_20080723.3\TestResults\fd8883e0-2153-44c6-8671-6d6db460c4a8\uesrname 2008-10-13 _02_21.trx' is denied.

Cause: Permission issue

A Workaround can be found in the KB article 958726.

What are Test Name, Test Id, and Test Path used for?

If you create a work item out of a test result like this…

Rightclick test result > Create Work Item

… the three test fields get populated by Visual Studio:

Test Name, Test Id and Test Path point to the originating test

Read all details here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms194965.aspx