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This sprint in vstest: Sprint 121

🛠️ Technology
ℹ️ This post provides a summary of updates in the vstest repository from June 27th, 2017 to July 27th, 2017. During this period, there were 37 pull requests merged and 63 issues closed. The focus was on stabilization, replacing legacy vstest with an open-source version, and supporting devices in vstest. Notable features added include blame for vstest reports, response file support, TestSessionTimeout, Mono support, and VSTest running on .NET 4.5.1 runtime. Issues fixed during this period included performance improvements, reliability enhancements, localization of build tasks, and engineering fixes to the build/test process.
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This post takes a snapshot of the updates in vstest↗ repository for the period 27th June, 2017 to 27th July, 2017.

Activity

Pull Requests (37 total)

TotalMergedOpen
37325

We saw two community contributions. One awesome feature was contributed by our intern.

Issues

TotalClosedOpen
634914

Releases

15.5-preview-20170727-01↗

Changelog

We’ve been working on three areas of focus.

  • Stabilization: our focus for next few sprints in reliability, performance and key customer asks
  • Replace the legacy vstest with opensource version (in VS)
  • Devices support in vstest. Allow running tests with vstest.console and dotnet test on various devices

What’s new in Sprint 121?

  • Feature: Blame for vstest. Reports the test which crashes a run (#915↗)
  • Feature: Response file support for vstest (#867↗)
  • Feature: TestSessionTimeout cancels a test run if it exceeds a timeout (#949↗)
  • Feature: Mono support for vstest (#904↗)
  • Feature: VSTest now runs on .NET 4.5.1 runtime (#941↗)

Issues fixed