How to enable test controller logs

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Here are the steps which you should perform to enable test controller logs.

1. Go to your test controller installation directory (typically it is something like C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\).

2. Open the controller configuration file (QTController.exe.config) and change the trace level to 4 and enable the trace listener as shown below:

  <system.diagnostics>
    <switches>
      <!-- You must use integral values for "value".
           Use 0 for off, 1 for error, 2 for warn, 3 for info, and 4 for verbose. -->
      <add name="EqtTraceLevel" value="4" />
    </switches>
  </system.diagnostics> 

.....

    <add key="CreateTraceListener" value="yes"/>
  </appSettings>
</configuration>

3. Restart the test controller service.

After this the log file (Vsttcontroller.log) should get generated in the same installation directory.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    June 13, 2014
    We're using TFS 2013 and found the config file at "C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0Common7IDEQTController.exe.config".  Thanks for the article! :)

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2014
    @deadlydog..Did it work for you ?As for my TFS 2013 it did not.Please confirm..thanks

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2014
    Rahul,Tfs does not contain the test controller. Have you installed test controller?RegardsAseem Bansal

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2014
    Hi Aseem,Thanks for the reply,my enviornment is Up and running withTwo test agents and a Test controller Configured on different Virtual machines.Build for the source code created but,when I try to run the test case from MTM Iface the following error message.""Error adding test case [16431] to test run: Unable to load the test container 'C:WindowsTEMPMicrosoftTeamTestQTControllerBuildDownloads15797search panel.dll' or one of its dependencies. Error details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITesting, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified."I tried implementing the solution mentioned by you but it did not work for me,please suggest.ThanksRahul

  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2014
    Hi Aseem,Any suggestion.Thanks,Rahul Yadav

  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2014
    Rahul,Can you please try out the suggestion(s) mentioned in this thread where another customer faced similar issue?social.msdn.microsoft.com/.../build-deploy-test-workflow-could-not-load-file-or-assemblyThe gist of the above thread is : -Install Visual studio on the test controller machine of the same version as your test controller.If 1 does not help and there is a version mismatch, then copy the appropriate version of uitest related assemblies to test controller installation directory and then it should work. RegardsAseem Bansal

  • Anonymous
    September 19, 2014
    Thanks Aseem for your help ..I just replcaed my locally compied code with the Build drop loaction code and it worked fine for me.

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2014
    Good to know that it is working for you now, Rahul.