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I just gave a talk with the same title at Virtual Tech Days 2010. Deck and videos shared on my skydrive It's always fun to talk about your product. I n this session, voice was enabled only for the presenter - so it was kinda weird talking into the phone
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Importing test cases from Excel to VS2010 is a no longer a pain . Check out Test Case Migrator (Excel) on codeplex - an automated tool that gives end to end support to move test cases from Excel to the new TCM capabilities with MTLM in VS 2010!
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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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We are back in Beta2 with a bunch of new stuff in Coded UI test for UI automation testers. First up, the code generation in Coded UI test has been changed to structure the code in a much more usable and intuitive way: 1. All the UI elements you interact
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With the new SKU structure in Visual Studio, there is no longer any SKU called “Team System”. So, how do you figure out which features are available in what SKU? Here is a table listing where each of the Team System features are in the new SKUs: Does
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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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Well – the tech preview for Office 2010 is now public – and I am bursting to tell you guys my favorite features of Outlook in Office 14. Being a Microsoftie, I practically live in Outlook…and Outlook 14 has some pretty nifty improvements that I absolutely
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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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As I sit here @ Tech Ed 2009 in Hyderabad, that’s what I am wondering looking at the sparse audience in the first session of the day. (Yeah right, I was expecting half of the million developers to turn up here ;-) ) Sigh - given the current economic condition
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Check out this totally kickass feature in VSTS 2010 aka Dev10 – the Coded UI Test (CUIT). This is a brand new test type in VSTT that lets users do functional UI automation. As GUI testers will already know, UI automation is one of the most tedious to
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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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