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Tarik
Tarik

Reputation: 81781

"Cannot start process because a file name has not been provided" in Visual Studio 2015 Load Testing

Whenever I was trying to capture a scenario, I kept getting this error message:

Cannot start process because a file name has not been provided.

I will answer my own question so that people can benefit from my findings.I googled for an hour but with no luck. So I decided to debug this issue on my own, and used ProcMon.exe from SysInternals.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7057

Answers (1)

Tarik
Tarik

Reputation: 81781

The problem, after using ProcMon.exe to find out, was really a missing entry in the Registry. Visual Studio 2015 was looking at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\IEXPLORE.EXE this entry to look up where Internet Explorer is located. But for some reason, this entry was missing in my registry. Since it could not find the location of IE, it failed at opening the IE to capture a web testing scenario. The message really tells us that fact.

This is how it should look like after you added the registry entry, but you don't have to have Path key. The (Default) is enough.:

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Upvotes: 1

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