{"id":18065,"date":"2016-06-21T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T07:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/?p=18065"},"modified":"2019-02-14T17:33:54","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T01:33:54","slug":"remote-testing-distributing-tests-based-on-number-of-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/remote-testing-distributing-tests-based-on-number-of-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Remote testing &#8211; Distributing tests based on number of machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">With Sprint 102 deployment on Visual Studio Team Services, we have enabled tests from within an assembly to be distributed to remote machines using the Run Functional Tests task (formerly called Run Tests using Test Agent). This has been one of the bigger asks from customers around Remote testing. You will see a new check box in the task as below.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Times New Roman\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/Distribute-Tests-by-Number-of-Machines1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18085 size-mediumlarge alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/06\/Distribute-Tests-by-Number-of-Machines1-500x230.png\" alt=\"Distribute Tests by Number of Machines1\" width=\"500\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">Instead of distributing tests at the assembly level, enabling this setting will distribute tests based on the number of machines irrespective of the container assemblies given to the task. Please try it out (see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2015\/05\/29\/testing-in-continuous-integration-and-continuous-deployment-workflows\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2015\/05\/29\/testing-in-continuous-integration-and-continuous-deployment-workflows\/<\/a> for information on how to use the task)\u00a0and let me know if you have any feedback.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Sprint 102 deployment on Visual Studio Team Services, we have enabled tests from within an assembly to be distributed to remote machines using the Run Functional Tests task (formerly called Run Tests using Test Agent). This has been one of the bigger asks from customers around Remote testing. You will see a new check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,1,252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ci","category-devops","category-testing"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>With Sprint 102 deployment on Visual Studio Team Services, we have enabled tests from within an assembly to be distributed to remote machines using the Run Functional Tests task (formerly called Run Tests using Test Agent). This has been one of the bigger asks from customers around Remote testing. You will see a new check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}