How to launch app, freshly-built by Team Build, for GUI testing?

Hi Michael,

Thanks for your response.  I was really hoping that TestComplete would have some facility built in to it for launching applications.  I wasn't expecting to have something so complex to set up, to be honest - multiple VMs, multiple licences when I'm only using one, etc.

SmartBear/TestComplete say they can integrate with Team Build, but unless there's some facility within TestComplete for launching the newly-built application it seems that it's down to the user to cobble something together.  In which case we'll need to create a suitable batch file, which launches the appropriate program, at the end of the build.  Our build script could create such a batch file at a known location and then a scheduled Test Complete test step could run that known batch file.

I have to admit I'm disappointed if this obvious feature isn't part of the standard TestComplete build integration.  Can it really be the case that you can build your software with Team Build/TFSBuild, and then kick off your tests automatically through TestComplete integration with TFS, but there is no facility to actually run and therefore test the software you've just built?!?