User Guide Integration with third-party tools Team Foundation Server integration Setting up the integration environment for on-premises Team Foundation Server Installing and configuring Microsoft components for on-premises Team Foundation Server

 Installing the Microsoft components

Installing the Microsoft components

A fully functional TA-TFS integrated system requires that a number of components of Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) environment be installed and configured.

• For test scenarios using Visual Studio 2015 or Team Foundation Server 2015, whether on-premise or cloud-based, support for launching automated tests is limited to Microsoft Test Manager 2015 with Microsoft test controller and Microsoft test agent for Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 (Note that these are Microsoft-imposed constraints).
• Running automated tests from Team Foundation Server’s web portal for Microsoft Visual Studio is currently not supported.

TA-TFS integration requires installation of the following software components of the Microsoft ALM. Please refer to the appropriate Microsoft resources for information on the installation and configuration of these items:

• Unless you use MTM, you do not have to install it, Test Controller and Test Agent.

• TestArchitect Client and Microsoft Test Agent must be installed on the same machine.

• For the TA-TFS plug-in,

  • If you use MTM, the plug-in and Visual Studio must be installed on the same machine.

  • If you use the Test hub, it is unnecessary to access the Test hub on the machine where Visual Studio is installed.

• In order to import TFS test cases or tests suites into TA, or upload TA test modules/test cases/test results to TFS, the TFS Object Model must exist on the machine hosting your TA repository server. This package can be installed once you install Visual Studio; alternatively, it may be installed as a stand-alone package.

• Microsoft Agents for Visual Studio:

  • Test agent for Visual Studio 2015, 2015 Update 1.

    Note:
    Choose to download and install Agents for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 5. This package includes installation of both test controllers and test agents.

  • Test agent for Visual Studio 2013.

• TFS Object Model:

  • TFS Object Model Installer.