There are a couple of things that people forget or miss when setting up Team Build to run a series of Build Verification Tests.
· Test tools need to be installed on the Build Server: Get you Visual Studio installation media. The only option that needs to be installed is “Team Developer and Tester tools”.
· Once you have setup a series of tests and they are added to your “Test Manager”, you still need to create the BVTs in a new “Test List” or the build you configure won’t pick them up.
And just in case, you can run tests without an .vsmdi file. Check out this blog