Dennis Stone's Blog

Overview This post kicks off a series that will explore the Test Management API’s.   Using these API’s you can accomplish many tasks that may not be possible via the UI, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).   Perhaps you have test assets in another...

I thought I’d make a brief post giving an overview of what automated testing looks like in our 2010 release.  While it’s true that in this release we focused primarily on nailing the experience for the manual tester there is quite a bit of carryover...

In my last post I gave an overview of what automated testing looks like in VS / TFS 2010 with the new testing features.  In 2010 we’ve added Test Plans which contain Test Suites which you can think of as a folder hierarchy to separate and organize...

In the previous Getting Started post for this series I covered the basics of creating a connection to the server and getting an instance of ITestManagementTeamProject which is at the core of just about everything you may want to do with the Test Management...

Duat Le, a Developer on our team, has put up a very nice post that goes over how to query Test Objects using WIQL (Work Item Query Language).  This information will be very useful if you ever need to use our query syntax in any code you write against...

Sometimes it can be useful to create “fake” builds in Team Foundation Server in order to successfully use other ALM features in the product.  If you aren’t using Team Build to generate the build drops for your application but you’d like to have a...

There’s a nice video demo featuring Test Impact you may find interesting here: http://blog.nfocus.co.uk/2010/03/vs2010-test-impact-one-giant-leap-for.html The demo is a little under 20 minutes and actually touches on quite a few of the integration features...