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The Coded UI test interface has undergone a redesign in Beta2 to make it easier and more intuitive. While designing this UI, we went through a common dilemma – do we need this to be a guided flow or a choice of operations, all available in parallel? So,
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Lately, we’ve been asked by some of our users if they can use VSTS 2010 test features to test their Silverlight apps. Well, web tests will still work on Silverlight web apps since they don’t operate at a control level, but functional tests that require
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When testing UI applications, you often want to locate a control on the app under test that has dynamic properties. For instance, when you login into a website, there may be a link/label on the first page that says “Welcome user, UserName1”. Now this
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Lately, there has been a hurried slew of queries on migrating test cases to VSTS 2010 from other sources. The most popular q of course is to move test cases from Excel to VSTS 2010. We have this facility to import work items from Excel to VSTS, right?
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Yay - I finally got to see our Dev10 Team Test bits being used in production! E&D team in in MSIT, India is going live on VSTS 2010 for their test case management. These guys are pretty avid dogfooders and have taken to the product pretty fast - creating
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Getting a video recording of your test to attach to the bug you file on your developer can be a really cool thing. And the Microsoft Test and Lab Manager tool makes it a breeze to do that. However, if your MTLM is crashing or erroring out when you try
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When testing UI applications, specially web apps, we frequently encounter the problem of window title changing with the state of the app or operations done on the app. For instance, when checking web mail, the title of the page could read “ Inbox(35)
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Check out this article in ITMagz.com that covers the latest trends in software testing. This is written by our very own industry expert, Tanuj Vohra that runs the Program Management team for VSTT. Virtualization testing is something that has taken off
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You have already used the bug tracking system (WIT) in TFS before. So, we integrated this bug tracking system with MTR so that you can file bugs with a single click from the runner itself. What's the big deal about this you might ask? Well, the big deal
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Right after we RTM-ed Orcas last Monday, we are out with the November CTP of Rosario VSTS. Go on over here and give it a spin. We have a ton of stuff that's new with VSTS in there - more on BHarry's blog . But, of course, I am excited about the manual
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So, we've been heads down building the latest Rosario CTP of VSTT for you guys. Some good new stuff heading your way... more details when we release it ;-) Meanwhile, like you must be knowing already, Orcas is on it's way to RTM . VSTT has some great
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Manual Test Runner (MTR) is one of the key portions of Rosario with which we are hoping to capture the imagination of the manual tester and make her life much easier than it currently is. The primary intent of the MTR is to help the manual tester create
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Rosario has test case management in a full fledged fashion as part of the VSTST feature set. So, now test cases are first class citizens in the VSTS world with them having their own exclusive test case manager tool window inside the IDE. Test cases are
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If you still(!!!) haven't heard , Rosario CTP is out in the form of a VPC here :) Doug's whitepaper should give you enough info to take it out for a spin. Manual Test Runner(MTR) is a key part of the CTP. It is a tool designed to help manual testers to
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Rosario is the next in line version for Team System after Orcas. And we are doing this CTP when Orcas has not even RTM-ed yet! Isn't that pretty cool? It's been a bit crazy managing multiple releases, but then, we want Rosario to hit the shelves in a
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