Automating Deployment in TestStand 2014

[noahk85]

I am trying to automate deployment of TestStand systems using a continuous integration server, and I would like to modify deployment files (.tsd) and call the deployment utility through the command line.

I am able to build existing .tsd files by calling "C:\Program Files\...\Deployment Utility\DeploymentUtility.exe" build "C:\...\deployment.tsd", but I would also like to make modifications to deployment files.

It seems like TestStand 2016 allows you these capabilities, but I have not found similar documentation for TestStand 2014. Does anyone have any experience like this or know where I could get help for this?

[sebasrasa]

Hello Noah, 

Do you perhaps mean this?

Custom commands dialog box

I found it on TestStand 2014 Help page, it looks the same as the TestStand 2016 help page, so are these the capabilities you were looking for?

Reg,

Sebastian

[WireWeaver · Accepted solution]

BuildTSD wasn't officially documented until 2016. Here's the original NI Labs documentation:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/NI-Labs-Toolkits/TestStand-Command-Line-Deployment-Build-Tool/ta-p/3527113

There's also a whole forum group dedicated to CI which I've posted some relevant TestStand content to:

https://forums.ni.com/t5/Continuous-Integration/Using-TestStand-and-Jenkins/gpm-p/3703537

-Trent