Task "Run Functional Tests" get current state of test case in real time

As far I know in MTM we have had opportunity to see results of test case in real time. In my case I had TFS 2013 Test Agent and I have run remotely my test suite using Lab definition (xaml). After that I open MTM and had opportunity to watch in what state my “test case” in my test suit.

As I can see, right now we lost that!

That small example of my log:

DistributedTests: Test run 'XXXX' is in 'InProgress' state.
DistributedTests: Total Tests : 983, Passed Tests : 0
DistributedTests: Test run 'XXXX' is in 'InProgress' state.
DistributedTests: Total Tests : 983, Passed Tests : 0
DistributedTests: Test run 'XXXX' is in 'InProgress' state.
DistributedTests: Total Tests : 983, Passed Tests : 0
...

My main question is: How can we return this opportunity? or maybe create new solution or start use some custom plugins for that if they exist of course. It’s really important to see the result in real time!

Would be great if we will get the next console output.

DistributedTests: Total Tests : 983, Passed Tests :  Test 1 -  Passed
DistributedTests: Total Tests : 982, Passed Tests :  Test 2 -  Field
DistributedTests: Total Tests : 981, Passed Tests :  Test 3 -  Passed    
DistributedTests: Total Tests : 980, Passed Tests :  Test 4 - InProgress 
...

Thanks!

[kardinal3000]

@atinb Thanks, but just only my curiosity. In future, maybe next TFS update, we will have such opportunity? like to see updates of “Tests” in real time. Or it will be never supported.

Why I so interested in it. We have huge Tests Suites and sometimes it takes more then 15 hours execution. Furthermore situation from real life. I have Test Suit with 1500 regression tests. One test VM. I know, if some tests will fail, it makes no sense to wait for the whole process is done. With new build system we lose such opportunity. I have to wait for the full completion of the process, because I can’t see current state of my test.

Thank for advance.

[rishavsharan]

Hi folks I am one of the PMs working on Automated Testing and we are keenly looking into the idea of showing the test results in real time. Allowing tests to fail fast and the developers to make decisions based on real time test insights, is a direction we want to go in.

You can keep an eye on the https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/release-notes/ for our high level roadmap. Once we have closed on the design for this feature, we will be adding it to this list.