I noticed some CodedUI tests on some projects won’t work in Visual Studio 2017. It hasn’t been consistent so I’m not sure exactly when this occurs but this is the error I received:
[1/3/2018 1:53:12 PM Warning] MSTestAdapter failed to discover tests in class ‘IntegrationTests.MyTests’ of assembly ‘D:\SourcePath\IntegrationTests\bin\Debug\MyTests.dll’. Reason Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.CodedUITestFramework, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’ or one of its dependencies. The located assembly’s manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131040).
Ultimately I found the an issue on the VisualStudio.com forums that matched my situation:
Apparently there is a bug in VS2017 where it isn’t referencing the right version of CodedUI. Thankful the post also offers a workaround. We created the following PowerShell script to apply the workaround:
#https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/161803/cant-debug-coded-ui-test-in-latest-vs2017.html
#Run in PowerShell as Admin to fix error#”Unit Test Adapter threw exception:
#Could not load file or assembly ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.CodedUITestFramework, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral…” or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified..”[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable(“__UNITTESTEXPLORER_VSINSTALLPATH__”, “C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Enterprise\Common7\IDE”, “Machine”)
All it does is add a new machine-level environment variable. You will need to run the script in a PowerShell prompt with admin rights.