UnrealFrontend - Project Launcher: Cannot launch

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Hello everybody,

I am currently trying to run my first Automation Test and tried to do so via the UnrealForntend as described here: Automation System User Guide in Unreal Engine | Unreal Engine 5.2 Documentation

When launching the tool from Visual Studio, I can select a project in the “Project Launcher”, but then the button on the right does not get enabled, the tooltip still tells me to select a project.

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I was wondering whether this may be a bug. I do understand that a alternative is probably to launch the frontend via an open editor window with a project already loaded. Btw: Is a way to run (Unit-)Tests without loading a project? The unit tests I want to run are in a project independent module plugin.

Thanks in advance,
Kind regards,

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Restarting the UnrealFrontend tool solves the problem. Hence, this probably only appears with empty/default configuration?
I also have a “custom profile” added now. Is that required? Maybe that fixed the problem.