Comments by KeithSware (Top 1 by date)

Hi Joshi, I've updated the solution details, found some more links to useful information. You might like to [start button] - run - services.msc then hunt for service called [Visual Studio Test Controller] service name: VSTTController - go to recovery tab and set the first / second / subsequent failures to [Restart Service]. I have done this on all my services related to tfs. I also set the tab[General] - start-up type to [Automatic (Delayed Start)]. I found that the delayed start improves reliability. I did find that the service did not always start properly on a couple of occasions. If you have sysinternals on your box, I use cmd> psservice.exe > "20120613b services.txt" and then search the file for everything with [tfs] to make sure that they are running. The log files are [TestAgentConfigUI.log] & [TestControllerConfigUI.log] located at C:\Users\YOURloginNAME\AppData\Local\Temp. One interesting config file is [QTController.exe.config], on my box, this is located at [C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE]. At bottom, there are configs such as AgentConnectionTimeoutInSeconds & CreateTraceListener that might be helpful.