How to send dynamic Test plan Id and Test suite Id in a classic pipeline in Visual Studio Test task

Question

These field are not accepting environment variables since they are dropdowns. Is there any alternate way to dynamically send those fields since I want to execute multiple Test Plans and Suites in a Single pipeline without creating multiple ones.

Answer 1

Hi Murali, Sanjaykrishnan,

In your YAML file define the testPlanId and testSuiteId as pipeline variables.

and use these variables in the VS as VS Test Task using $(variableName).

trigger:  

- master    

pool:  

vmImage: 'windows-2022'

variables:  
testPlanId: '$(testPlanId)' 
testSuiteId: '$(testSuiteId)'    

steps:  

- task: UseDotNet@2  

inputs:  
packageType: 'sdk'  
version: '5.x'  
installationPath: $(Agent.ToolsDirectory)/dotnet    

- script: |  

echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=testPlanId]$(newTestPlanId)"  
echo "##vso[task.setvariable variable=testSuiteId]$(newTestSuiteId)"  
displayName: 'Set Test Plan and Suite IDs'    

- task: VSTest@2  

inputs: 
testSelector: 'TestPlan'  
testPlan: '$(testPlanId)'  
testSuite: '$(testSuiteId)'  
searchFolder: '$(System.DefaultWorkingDirectory)'

Now when you run the pipeline the VS Test task will use the set Test Plan ID and Test Suite ID.

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Hope this Helps.

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