In this blog, I am going to discuss about how attachments are stored when you file a bug from the Test Runner . When you file a bug in the test runner, below are the sequence of operations that happen: The test is paused The Test Runner requests data...

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There has been a lot of confusion regarding difference between action recording for a test case and action log. I must admit that the similarities between them do make them a bit confusing to start with. However, they are meant for two different purposes...

As most of you are already aware, we released RC version of Visual Studio 2010 recently. For those who are not aware, you can download it from this location . I would like to discuss a few changes that we have done in Test Runner post Beta 2. The changes...

In this blog, I will be writing about the integration of test runner with diagnostic data adapters . This integration allows test runner to collect a lot of interesting data in the background while testing is done. This data is automatically attached...

In this blog, I will discuss few techniques to achieve resilient action recording . That is, if you follow some of these techniques, you will get an action recording that will most likely playback successfully. 1. Be mindful of the recorded actions...

In this blog, I will discuss about the following questions that you may have: I would like to exclude an application from action recording i.e. no action on that application should get into my action recording. How can I do that? I would like actions...

In my previous blog I had explained about how action recording gets created for the test case as you test your application manually. In this blog I will describe how to use that action recording for fast forwarding the test. This is again a very simple...

In this blog, I will straight away jump into a very interesting feature that will help testers fast forward their testing. Basically, the tester can automate portions of test that can be played back next time the test is executed. The good thing is that...

As I have mentioned previously, I will be mainly discussing the various features of the Manual Test offering that we have in our product. In particular, I will be concentrating more on the Test Runner which is used for Manual Test Execution. Below is...

Everything has a start point and here is mine. I am a developer working in the Visual Studio Team Test. After an exciting couple of years, here we are at a point where we have our product available for Beta evaluation(VS2010) and ready to be used by folks...