Device Guard blocking non-signed binaries when executing microsoft.testplatform.17.0.0.nupkg "Visual Studio Test" task

[mbach2022]

Description

Device guard is blocking one of the dependencies of microsoft.testplatform.17.0.0.nupkg when executing "Visual Studio Test" task

Error: Could not load file or assembly 'System.IO.Abstractions, Version=2.1.0.174, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=96bf224d23c43e59' or one of its dependencies. Your organization used Device Guard to block this app.

Steps to reproduce

What steps can reproduce the defect?

Device Guard is blocking non-signed binaries when executing microsoft.testplatform.17.0.0.nupkg

This package is getting invoked from a release pipeline with the following tasks:

• Visual studio platform installer
• Visual Studio Test (This task is failing with the following error: Could not load file or assembly 'System.IO.Abstractions, Version=2.1.0.174, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=96bf224d23c43e59' or one of its dependencies. Your organization used Device Guard to block this app. Contact your support person for more info. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800711C7)

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Error:

Expected behavior

• Test should pass

Actual behavior

Device guard is blocking one of the testplatform components when running the test.

Diagnostic logs:

2022-01-28T13:30:23.7417720Z ##[error]TestExecution encountered unexpected failures System.ComponentModel.Composition.CompositionException: The composition produced a single composition error. The root cause is provided below. Review the CompositionException.Errors property for more detailed information.
2022-01-28T13:30:23.7426874Z ##[debug]Processed: ##vso[task.logissue type=error;]TestExecution encountered unexpected failures System.ComponentModel.Composition.CompositionException: The composition produced a single composition error. The root cause is provided below. Review the CompositionException.Errors property for more detailed information.
2022-01-28T13:30:23.7427621Z
2022-01-28T13:30:23.7428299Z 1) Could not load file or assembly 'System.IO.Abstractions, Version=2.1.0.174, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=96bf224d23c43e59' or one of its dependencies. Your organization used Device Guard to block this app. Contact your support person for more info. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800711C7)
2022-01-28T13:30:23.7429199Z
2022-01-28T13:30:23.7429557Z Resulting in: An exception occurred while trying to create an instance of type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestService.AgentExecutionHost.JsonInputParser'.
2022-01-28T13:30:23.7429837Z
2022-01-28T13:30:23.7430125Z Resulting in: Cannot activate part 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestService.AgentExecutionHost.JsonInputParser'.
2022-01-28T13:30:23.7430848Z Element: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestService.AgentExecutionHost.JsonInputParser -->

Environment

Please share additional details about the test environment.

• Operating system: Windows
• Build version of vstest.console: Visual Studio Test 2.198.0

[nohwnd]

This is issue of vstest task from AzDo. Investigation is in progress...

[sachip-msft]

I have added issue on vstest ado team microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks#15946
so someone in that team can look into this.

[Evangelink]

Closing this issue as it exists on AzDo.