Fix public build ci not picking up latest built test assembly #1217
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This PR addresses an issue where the VSTest@2 task fails to pick up the latest built test assemblies when running in distributed agent mode.
Without this fix, the test discovery phase uses the most recently built DLLs to detect and assign test cases. However, during execution, the distributed agents may use stale, cached test assemblies from previous successful pipeline runs—potentially missing newly added test cases.
This change ensures that all test agents receive the latest built test DLLs, preventing "test not found" errors and guaranteeing accurate test discovery and execution.
Relevant documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/reference/vstest-v2?view=azure-pipelines
Test artifact handling and publishing:
testAssemblypaths ineng/ci/public-build.ymlto use a unified directory structure (tests/**) and addedartifactNameparameters for each test stage to specify artifact names (CoreTests,AzureStorageTests,EmulatorTests). [1] [2] [3]eng/templates/build-steps.ymlto publish test artifacts (CoreTests,AzureStorageTests,EmulatorTests) using the1ES.PublishPipelineArtifacttask. [1] [2] [3]Test execution improvements:
eng/templates/test.ymlto include a newartifactNameparameter and steps for downloading test artifacts and listing downloaded test DLLs.testAssemblyVer2parameter to use the downloaded artifact path for test execution.runInParalleloption for theVSTesttask.