right after i posted my last message about the zoom call i had with the smartbear tech guy, he replied with a workaround solution for me and my azure classic pipelines. i've already implemented it on a couple of my VM's and verified that it does work. it is a way to use the previous, stable, working version of the test adapter which is in the zip file of the link below. hope this works for all of you. here is his email to me. Let me know if you have any questions.
Developers have reproduced and have been working on the issue. They will try to set up and implement a potential roll back strategy if there solutions don't work. Should have an update on Monday.
In the meantime, I actually had luck with successful pipelines using the following test adapter below:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/webtocasefiles/2025/d4c4a0ea-4ff2-cc82-3d80-e00995aebdd7/2025_02_21-11_58_15_357/smartbearsoftware.install-testcomplete-adapter-task-for-__.zip?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAILZDL6PV2PCURZRA&Expires=1826557108&Signature=yXAd%2BS%2FOjO2gxQSpv1hoiCYxoyQ%3D
It's the old one so it works fine. Do the following same steps again, but with this test adapter and see if you still have issues:
* Extract the zipped folder (may need to extract it in your desktop)
* the three dlls you need will be under "InstallTestCompleteAdapterTask\Modules"
* In your pipeline, disable the "TestComplete test adapter" step.
* In your VSTest step, look for "Path to custom test adapter" text field
* Copy the full path of the "InstallTestCompleteAdapterTask\Modules" to the textfield