(Azure DevOps Testplans) Is it possible to associate an automated Test to a testcase without Visual Studio?

Question

My Goal is to trigger my testcafe-test via the test case and not with the pipeline. on the microsoft docs they say i need visual studio, but is it possible to link my test to a test case without it?

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Answer 1

(Azure DevOps Testplans) Is it possible to associate an automated Test to a testcase without Visual Studio?

You could use REST API to do this Work Items - Update:

PATCH https://dev.azure.com/{organization}/{project}/_apis/wit/workitems/{id}?api-version=6.0

Content-Type: application/json-patch+json

Body:

[
  {
    "op": "add",
    "path": "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.AutomatedTestName",
    "value": "[namespace.classname.methodname (e.g. UnitTestProject1.UnitTest1.TestMethod2)]"
  },
  {
    "op": "add",
    "path": "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.AutomatedTestStorage",
    "value": "[assembly name(e.g. unittestproject1.dll)"
  },
  {
    "op": "add",
    "path": "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.AutomatedTestId",
    "value": "[guid id]"
  },
  {
    "op": "add",
    "path": "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.AutomatedTestType",
    "value": "Unit Test"
  },
   {
    "op": "add",
    "path": "/fields/Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.AutomationStatus",
    "value": "Automated"
  }
]