Testing in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflows

This post details the setup and configuration of automated testing within Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) workflows using Visual Studio Online (VSO) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 RC. It outlines the steps for setting up build and unit test tasks, provisioning machines for application deployment and testing, configuring deployment and remote test execution tasks (including PowerShell scripts, file copying, and Visual Studio Test Agent deployment), and queuing builds with test result analysis. The post emphasizes the extensibility of the build framework, the ability to reuse assets across CI and release management, simplified machine provisioning, distributed test execution, and rich test reporting.