Unable To Associate Automated Tests with Test Cases

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I'm automating tests by means of CodedUI in VS2015 Enterprice(.NET4.7.2) and running them from Azure DevOps. I need to associate manual test with automated test case via Work Item, but I don't see my test case (checked into tfs) in "Automated test name"-List (but older tests are listed.) Even so this test case runs succesfully in Azure Pipeline with "Automation State"= planned. Why can test case not be listed in "Automated test name" and how can I add it and change "automation state" to automated? Thanks

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Hi Nati A Chramm, any update on this? Did you get a chance to implement the solution that I suggested? Were you able to resolve? – PatrickLu-MSFT

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The process to associate an automated test with a test case is:

  1. Create a test project containing your automated test.
  2. Check your test project into an Azure DevOps or Team Foundation Server (TFS) repository.
  3. Create a build pipeline for your project, ensuring that it contains the automated test.
  4. Use Visual Studio Enterprise or Professional 2017 or a later version to associate the automated test with a test case as shown below. The test case must have been added to a test plan that uses the build you just defined.

Q: What types of tests are supported?

A: These are the limitations for each type of test:

  • Coded UI test, Selenium tests, and unit tests written using Version 1 of the MSTest framework can be associated with a test case.
  • Tests that use MSTest v2, NUnit, and xUnit frameworks can be associated with a test case workitem when using Visual Studio 15.9 Preview 2 or later. However, these tests cannot be run using Microsoft Test Manager and XAML builds.

More details please kindly refer our official doc: Associate automated tests with test cases

If you are unable to see the Automated Option in the dropdown there are only 2 options available in the dropdown - 'Not Automated' and Planned.

This is caused you didn't associate automated tests successfully. To display the Automated option, you need to Associate automated tests with test cases.

Take a look at this similar issue: 'Automated' option not shown in 'Automation Status' dropdown in Testcase work Item