[Question]: VSTest@2 and VSTest@3 are not working within Azure DevOps anymore

[thomastrinamix]

Task name

VSTest2

Task version

2.235.3

Environment type (Please select at least one enviroment where you face this issue)

• Self-Hosted
• Microsoft Hosted
• VMSS Pool
• Container

Azure DevOps Server type

dev.azure.com (formerly visualstudio.com)

Azure DevOps Server Version (if applicable)

No response

Operation system

Windows 2022

Question

dear community,
since the update from 2.253.2 to 2.235.3 on Wednesday 13. March 2024 our test pipeline fails in azure devops:
'##[error]VsTest task failed.'

found this PR
https://github.com/microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/pull/19617
saying there is an update from 2.253.2 to 2.236.0, however when using '-task: [email protected]' I can't run the pipeline 'A task is missing. The pipeline references a task called 'VSTest'. This usually indicates the task isn't installed, and you may be able to install it from the Marketplace:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com.
(Task version 2.236.0, job 'testAndBuild4appService', step ''.)'

Also tried
'- task: [email protected]'
'- task: [email protected]'
'- task: VSTest@3'
always got
'##[error]VsTest task failed.'

[qianz2]

Hi @thomastrinamix, could you try again with '- task: [email protected]'?

[thomastrinamix]

Hi @thomastrinamix, could you try again with '- task: [email protected]'?

Encountered error(s) while parsing pipeline YAML:
A task is missing. The pipeline references a task called 'VSTest'. This usually indicates the task isn't installed, and you may be able to install it from the Marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com. (Task version 2.236.1, job 'testAndBuild4appService', step ''.)

[thomastrinamix]

ok. it looks like this was more an Azure DevOps bug... you can close this one here.

just recreated the pipeline with exactly the same yml, branch and - task: VSTest@2
It uses Version : 2.235.3 and everything works as it did in the past

Old pipeline with reference to exactly same yml and branch still results in ##[error]VsTest task failed.

---> Solutions (Azure DevOps): create a new pipeline with the same yml