Delete Test Runs API not working as expected

Question

We are within a test phase for much of our automated testing as we move from JIRA to ADO and so I was trying to clean up the test runs on our system. I first used this API to get a list of test runs:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/test/runs/list?view=azure-devops-rest-7.0&tabs=HTTP

Then I used this API to delete them in bulk

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/azure/devops/test/runs/delete?view=azure-devops-rest-7.0&tabs=HTTP

The runs now do not show in the test run data when ran from the UI, suggesting that they have been deleted, yet when I run the test run list, it seems to return everything that has supposedly been "Deleted". Additionally, it seems the progress report does not have the progress from those test runs removed. Please could you advise how I can completely remove these items ahead of us starting to use the product in earnest for automation?

Answer 1

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