Unified Agents implementaiton

Question

I have a single Agent pool having 4 agent machines. I am building my code and it is getting successfully using a single agent out of 4.

Achieve: I want to achieve compilation and testing using Unified Agent Pool.The same pool I want to use for Testing.

I create a Release definition and create an agent phase: Selected the option Execute on Multiple Agents using same pool I used in Build Agent. (Concept is achieving the exact functionality of Unified Agent).

Create the Visual Studio test V2 task and in the Search folder as used $(BuildOutput) . Test Assemblies as : test.dll !\obj* and selected RUN TESTS in Parallel on multicore machines.

Output:

Build run successfully and when it automatically trigger the release definition it shows these errors:

First error: No artifacts are available in the build 47777.

2018-07-16T13:19:38.0507114Z ##[error]Error: Preparing the test sources file failed. Error : Error: No test sources found matching the given filter '*test*.dll,!\obj**'

2018-07-16T13:19:38.0507114Z ##[error]Error: Preparing the test sources file failed. Error : Error: No test sources found matching the given filter '*test*.dll,!\obj**' 

Question: am I going in right direction for an implementation of Unified Agent using VSTest v.2.

What should i do for resolving these errors and going into right direction.

Thanks!

Answer 1

This is the key problem:

No artifacts are available in the build 47777.

Your build is not publishing any artifacts. Your build has to use the Publish Artifacts task to publish the build outputs in order to make them available in a release definition.

When artifacts are successfully published to a build, there is an "Artifacts" tab that appears on the build summary that will allow you to browse and validate the build outputs.