Azure Pipelines | App Center test | error when including category

Question

I'm running a job (series of tasks including nuget restore, build & signing application) on Azure DevOps to build android application and Test (Xamarin.UITest) application through Appcenter.

Test runs fine, if I don't specify any arguments on "Additional options for run" on "Test with Visual Studio App Center" task. When I do that (--include-category LandingPage) task throws error saying:

Error: Command 'test run manifest --manifest-path d:\a\12\a\AppCenterTest\manifest.json --app-path d:/a/12/b/Release/PUBLISH_PACKAGE_NAME_PHONE_ANDROID.PUBLISH_PACKAGE_NAME_PHONE_ANDROID.apk --app SampleApp/Android --devices 12345abcd --test-series DevOps --locale en_US --include-category LandingPage --quiet --token ***' failed with exception "Unknown argument --include-category"

What I'm missing?

[command works perfectly when I run appcenter test run from my local machine.]

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

For people facing this issue, make sure you're providing your --include-category AppCenterTest under Prepare Tests area not under Run tests. Additional Options under Run Tests have different purpose it seems.