Command line test run with JSON output
Command line test run with JSON output
The whole test suite can be run from the command line. It returns structured JSON with pass, fail and skip counts and a real exit code, so failures fail the build.
Area: Developer tools. Status: GA. Developer relevance: high. Airtime: 1 min across 1 video.
Status evidence
- Nothing said about status; launch event convention: generally available unless stated otherwise.
Where they talk about it
- What's new in AL and Tools: 21:16 to 21:56 (called "Test run from command line with structured JSON output" there)
Quotes
- 21:29 "run the whole suite from the command line and get structured JSON with pass fail and skip counts plus a real exit code" - Gives the concrete CI outcome: structured results and an exit code that fails the build.
Documented features match
- Run AL tests from command-line and CI/CD workflows - high confidence (llm). Docs say: General availability, roadmap id 573334. Same
Docs checked on 2026-10-02: the match is against Microsoft's what's new pages for the wave as they were on that date. Microsoft keeps filling the documentation, so "no documented item" can go stale. The wider product documentation on learn.microsoft.com was searched for this feature on the same date; the feature's data lists an article when one was found.
Tags: al, testing, ci, json, pipeline
Generated by pipeline step 06. Source: YouTube auto-captions of the launch event videos, see the deep links. Not official.