MStest progress via command line - command-line

I am running a big mstest suite from the command line that takes about 15 minutes to complete. Once started the output to the command window is as below...
Microsoft (R) Test Execution Command Line Tool Version 10.0.30319.1
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Loading SetupTestRun.testrunconfig...
Loading Test.BusinessLibrary\All.orderedtest...
Starting execution...
It remains like this until the test finishes and then dumps all the results to the screen in one big batch. Is there anyway to get a running progress of the tests to the command window so I can see a) how far it has progressed and b) what has passed and failed?
Cheers,
Sam
EDIT: To be clear, we are running an ordered test, not a test list.

Yes, is possible
Accordingly with MSDN
mstest /testcontainer:YourDLL.dll /detail:errormessage /detail:description /resultsfile:"file.trx"

From my experience it seems to output one line per test as each test happens. So you get an idea of progress overall but not the progress within a test.
I am now looking for a way for it to say test 1/100 test 2/100 etc. would be nice.

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Trying to get a Powershell Script that will run in a 2nd window and monitor in real time other running scripts / report all Errors / ExitCodes

I am fairly new to writing code in Powershell. For my job I have to write multiple Powershell scripts to make changes in the Hardware and Software settings as well as the Registry and Group Policy Editor to get these applications to run. These applications are a little older. Upgrading these software applications or the hardware then run on is NOT an option. as an example, when Microsoft releases the new patches on like Patch Tuesday...when those patches are applied there is a high probability that something will be changed which is where I come in to write a script to fix the issue. I have multiple scripts that I run. When those scripts are ran they may end up terminating because of an Error Code or an Exit Code. A large part of the time I do not that the script has failed immediately.
I am trying to figure out a script that I can run in a 2nd PowerShell Console Window. I am thinking that the only purpose of this script is to just sit there on the screen and wait and monitor. Then when I execute a script or Application (the only file extensions that I am worried about are: EXE, BAT, CMD, PS1) if the script/application that I just ran ends with an exit code or an error code....then output that to the screen...in REAL TIME.
Below, I have a small piece of code that kind of works, but it is not what I am wanting.
I have researched online and read and read tons of stuff. But I just can't seem to find what I am looking for.
Could someone please help me with getting a script that will do what I am wanting.
Thank you for your help!!!!
$ExitErrorCode =
"C:\ThisFolder\ThatFolder\AnotherFolder\SomeApplication.EXE # (this
would
# either be an EXE or CMD or BAT or PS1)"
$proc = Start-Process $ExitErrorCode -PassThru
$handle = $proc.Handle # cache proc.Handle
$proc.WaitForExit();
if ($proc.ExitCode -ne 0) {
Write-Warning "$_ exited with status code $($proc.ExitCode)"
}
Possible duplicate of the approaches shown here:
Monitoring jobs in a PowerShell session from another PowerShell session
Monitoring jobs in a PowerShell session from another PowerShell session
PowerShell script to monitor a log and output progress to another
PowerShell script to monitor a log and output progress to another

How do I show the exact command being tested when a pytest script runs?

How is it possible that anyone uses pytest without having it output the exact command that it runs.
I have a set of 5 test scripts with a total of 41 different test combinations. The script functions all basically follow this same template where at some stage, the funciton does:
subprocess.Popen(cmdline_builder(opt, name, options))
When there's a failure, the output is nearly useless, it doesn't show the exact command that was run.
How does anybody use this ? How would you expect to debug a failed test without knowing what to run ?

Can a PowerShell script be dependent of another script's execution?

I have a situation where I want to make the execution of my scripts smarter. I have a set of scripts that execute at a given time, but because sometimes the input files are not posted at the correct times the scripts run into errors and get unexpected results. so one of the solutions I was thinking of is to make the execution of the scripts dependent of each other. Here is what I mean:
script 1 runs at 6 pm
validates that the file is there
if it's there, set a flag
the flag is active so execute script 2 at 9 pm
if it's NOT there, the flag is not set
the flag is not set so script 2 is not executed
Right now script 1 and script 2 are set with the Task Scheduler at those times, I checked the Scheduler for those type of conditions, but didn't find anything.
You can set triggers in Task Scheduler, like when an event happens for basically everything you can see in eventviewer.
I would suggest Write-Eventlog from the script which works on the file, and depending on the result the sched task would get triggerd.
I suggest you to have single script running every N-minutes on single scheduled task via Task Scheduler.
The master script will analyze activities and have all logical conditions those determine when and which external script to run. You can also have flag files.

Powershell hangs on Launch

When I run powershell ISE, I can execute commands/scripts without issue. When I launch either the 32 or 64 bit command line, the window takes about 30 seconds to load and then it is frozen. It will not accept inputs of any kind (keyboard or copy/paste). I have tried doing a system check, no errors. I even tried updating to powershell 4.0, the install was successful but the command line still locks on launch. Can anyone advise how to fix this? I am using windows server 2008 R2.
Update
It appears that the powershell is in fact accepting input, except at a glacial speed. I left the window open while I was writing this post initially, and then grabbed a coffee. Upon my return I found that what I have tried to copy/paste and type was now in the powershell command line. I have now attempted to execute $PSVersionTable.PSVersion, and going on 3 minutes now I still have no response. My guess is it will come back at some point but this is obviously not acceptable. Any ideas on how to debug/fix this?
Update2
As far as I can tell all the locations listed in $PROFILE | Select * don't exist. I also tried launching: powershell.exe -noprofile, but this did not help
After reading this post I decided to try that tool and see if I had a similar problem and discovered that there were literally hundreds of writes per second happening when powershell command line was running and they were all to the FusionLog. Disabling the Fusion logging fixed the issue completely (this was enabled a while ago to debug a different issue with an app and I must have forgotten to disable it). Everything else on the machine seemed to hum along just fine with FusionLogging in the background but powershell was horribly crippled. Hope this helps someone some day.

Where the TeamCity service messages should be written?

I'm a beginner on TeamCity, so forgive my dump question.
For some reason the coverage reporting for my solution is not working. So, to run the tests I run nunit-console in a command line step and then use the xml output file in a build feature of type [XML report processing]. Test results appear on the TeamCity GUI but no coverage statistics.
It seems to be that there a way to configure the tests reporting manually https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/TCD8/Manually+Configuring+Reporting+Coverage but I don't know where to put these service messages:
teamcity[dotNetCoverage ='' ='' ...]
Just write them to standard output. It is captured by TeamCity and service messages from it will be processed.
Pay attention, however, to the syntax. Service message should begin with ##
As Oleg already stated you can dump them in standard output
Console.WriteLine(...) from C#
echo from command prompt or powershell,
...
Here is an example http://log.ld.si/2014/10/20/build-log-in-teamcity-using-psake
There is a psake helper module, https://github.com/psake/psake-contrib/wiki/teamcity.psm1 and source is available on https://github.com/psake/psake-contrib/blob/master/teamcity.psm1 (you can freely use this from powershell as well)
It has already implemented alot of Service Messages