Usage

To use the Microsoft Visual Studio Testing plugin, the plugin must be loaded and an instance created. Load the plugin into the HCL Accelerate container if necessary. From the user interface, click Settings > Integrations > Plugins. On the Plugins page, locate the plugin and click Load Plugin. To create an instance, locate the plugin and click Install. The plugin is now listed below those plugins to be installed and available for invoking.

Integration type

The Microsoft Visual Studio Testing plugin parses unit test result data from the Microsoft Visual Studio Testing server.

Invoking the plugin

To gather data from the Microsoft Visual Studio Testing server, send an HTTP Post request with the data to parse. Whenever a there is a hit to the endpoint, the data is parsed and displayed as metrics in HCL Accelerate. You can use various methods such as Postman, REST calls, CURL, and CI/CD tools like Jenkins to invoke the plugin endpoints.

Invoke using Jenkins

Install the UrbanCode Velocity plugin into your Jenkins server. In your freestyle job or pipeline use the UCV-Upload Metrics File to UrbanCode Velocity step and provide the required fields. This step allows your build job to upload generated coverage results files to HCL Accelerate.

pipeline {
   agent any
   stages {
      stage('MicrosoftVisualStudioTestingMetrics') {
         steps {
            step([$class: 'UploadMetricsFile',  appName: 'My msTest Test', dataFormat: 'msTestXML', filePath: '', name: 'my-msTest-test', pluginType: 'msTest', tenantId: '', testSetName: 'msTest', metricsRecordUrl: "${env.BUILD_URL}"])
         }
      }
   }
}

Invoke the plugin using a Rest call

When using a REST call to invoke the Microsoft Visual Studio Testing plugin, it must be a POST method and include the location of the HCL Accelerate quality data endpoint.

The following request sample shows a REST call that you can copy and update as necessary. Key points about the snippet:

• The URL points to the HCL Accelerate quality data endpoint. Update with the server location for your installation of HCL Accelerate.
• The BODY of the call is a multipart/form data. It includes information about the payload.

METHOD: POST 
URL: https:///reporting-consumer/metrics 
BODY (multipart/form-data):
 {
  payload:  // See below for schema format
 testArtifact: 
 }

Invoke using Curl

You can use the following plug-in types and associated data formats for invoking using a CURL request.

Unit Test Data

Categories:

• Unit Test
• UNIT_TEST_DURATION

Data Format:

Coverage

Categories:

• COVERAGE_LINES
• COVERAGE_FUNCTIONS

Note: These formats do not provide branch coverage information.

Data Format:

Sample CURL Request

curl --request POST \
  --url https://url_urbancodevelocity_server>/reporting-consumer/metrics \
  --form 'payload={
  "tenant_id": "",
  "application": {
    "name": "My Application"
  },
  "record": {
    "pluginType": "msTest",
    "dataFormat": "msTestXML"
  }
}
' \
  --form testArtifact=@test-result/MSTest.xml