This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Products and Services IT (PSIT) team.   Parameterizing web servers helps in parameterizing URLs of web server in web test. We can use the same web tests for different environments without need to regenerate the...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Relationship experience division (RXD) team. You can use Xperf tool to capture trace and narrow down exact processes/operation which is causing performance issue like CPU usage, disk utilization by process, File I...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Relationship experience division (RXD) team. CUITe is coded UI test enhanced framework available at http://cuite.codeplex.com/ useful for test UI automation. The advantages of CUITe is reduced code, better readability...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Relationship experience division (RXD) team. For one of my application testing I required files of specific different size starting from 1 MB to 1.5 TB. Using fsutil you can easily create a new file of a specific size...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Relationship experience division (RXD)  team.   When using Web performance tests it might not show web test recorder in Internet explorer (IE) meaning the web test recorder add-on is disabled. If web test recorder...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Relationship experience division (RXD)  team. You can enable tracing for the following components using the respective config files mtlm.exe.config – For MTLM features CodedUITestBuilder.exe.config – For coded UI...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Relationship experience division (RXD) team. Trace logs helps in debugging and identifying issues better. We can enable trace logs for coded UI tests as: Launch regedit and navigate to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Relationship experience division (RXD) team. Test impact analysis helps developers to quickly identify the tests(unit/CUIT) that need to be run for the latest code change. It’s one of the features in visual...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In continuation with previous blog let me show you How To run CUIT from Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) 2010. Launch MTM from Start –> All Programs –>Microsoft...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In continuation with previous blog lets create test environment for the test plan in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) 2010. Launch MTM from Start –> All Programs...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. Code coverage describes the degree up to which the source code of the program has been tested. The process would involve setting up code coverage and testing the entire...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In continuation with previous blog lets create test environment for the test plan in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) 2010. Launch MTM from Start –> All Programs...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In this blog I will show “Creating test plan in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) 2010. Launch MTM from Start –> All Programs –>Microsoft...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In this blog I will show “How to create basic build definition”. Pre-requisites: Build system should be configured You should have edit build...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In continuation with my earlier blog posts on automation using VS2010, I will show “Installing and configuring test agent” which will help in running the...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In continuation with my earlier blog posts on automation using VS2010, I will show “Installing and configuring test controller” which will help in running...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In earlier blog posts I have shown automating functional test cases using coded UI Test (CUIT), here I will show “Associating CUIT to manual testcase. Right...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. We had a website in pilot and the URL was applicaitonnamepilot . It was decided to move the website to production by removing the pilot from all the places in the website...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. For one of my projects I had to test APIs, which takes input string, encode the input and return the encoded output strings. In this blog post am going to give the concept...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. In the previous blog post we discussed “Creating and Using Team Foundation Server 2010 Queries”, lets explore linking work item types in VSTF 2010 - for example say creating...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. Lets explore the basics of creating and using queries in Team foundation server (TFS). First and foremost you should connect to the project for which you want to create...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. For one of my projects I had to validate the changes in some 50 stored procedures (SP). You can do this in; Connect to DB, Click on your Database (DB), programmability...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. During my initial stages at Microsoft, I had an opportunity to work on a data warehousing project. This write up is follow-up with the hands on experience I had with...

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team. You can generate Global unique identifier (GUID) using guidgen.exe, which is installed at “C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 Tools\guidgen...

Syed Aslam Basha here from the Information Security Tools Team. For one of my projects I had to load the database (DB) with huge number of transactions and check for look and feel of the application. Some of the fields in DB required unique identifier...