Over the course of 2010-2011, we have released several hotfixes to improve performance and fix bugs in Microsoft Test Manager 2010. Here are some of the QFEs that deal specifically with Test Case Management in MTM. 1. Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft...

Previous posts: TCM Reporting - FAQ - Part 1 Continuing on with series, here are the next set of frequently asked questions related to Reporting with Test Case Management (TCM) in Visual Studio 2010.   FAQ List - Part 2 I would like to create...

NOTE: Cross-posted from Brian Harry's blog Original: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2011/10/19/multi-line-test-steps-available-in-microsoft-test-manager-among-other-things.aspx "The biggest “news” is the addition of support for multi-line...

In the next few blog posts, we will review some of the frequently asked questions related to Reporting with Test Case Management (TCM) in Visual Studio 2010. FAQ List - Part 1 I am using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) for my testing activities...

[The following is a guest blog entry from a Microsoft internal user] At our team, we use Microsoft Test Manager 2010 to manage our automated test cases. It provides great flexibility to compose test suites based on a static set of tests (static suite...

Coded UI Test Enhanced Framework (CUITe) is now available at http://cuite.codeplex.com/. It is a thin layer developed on top of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Test's Coded UI Test engine which helps reduce code, increases readability and maintainability...

A QFE for Visual Studio 2010 testing tools, which fixes some important issues faced by customers, is now available. The full list of issues fixed by this QFE can be found in this article and you can download this patch from MSConnect . Note that Service...

Here is the exact scenario that one of the customer asked: Testers want to pause some test case and want to resume it later point of time since they don’t have the required data to proceed with the test case and they don’t want to mark...

Have an idea for the product and wondering what is the best way to report it? Think something is missing and you believe it absolutely has to be there? Well, we now have an avenue for you to add and vote for your favorite suggestions. The UserVoice...

Today, we have a guest post from Deepak Mittal, our CSS rep who was recently involved in a case where he helped a customer get significant perf gains in their Coded UI test. Few recommendations that you could try for improving the performance of your...

A QFE for Visual Studio 2010 testing tools, which fixes some important issues faced by customers, is now available.The full list of issues fixed by this QFE can be found here and you can download this patch here . Note that Service Pack 1 (Visual Studio...

NOTE: Cross-posted from Mathew Aniyan's Blog . Original post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mathew_aniyan/archive/2011/03/28/visual-studio-ui-test-extensibility-scenarios-amp-guiding-principles.aspx This blog delves into the design of extensibility model...

From Microsoft Test Manager, it is possible to identify the state of test cases (pass, fail, blocked etc) for a particular test suite. You can just select the test suite on the left side and the right pane would show all test cases with their test status...

The main aim of this release is to gain parity with IE8 support in IE9. The scenarios that worked in IE7/IE8 should continue to work on IE9.With this release our main focus is on all the functionality we supported in IE7 & IE8 should continue to work...

Earlier today, S. Somasegar, Senior Vice President of Developer Division, announced Visual Studio 2010 Load Test Feature Pack, a new benefit for active and new Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN subscribers to load test their applications with unlimited...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink Long back I had posted on “ How To: Enable Tracing for UI Test Components ”. The trace files have helpful information that could help the support team debug the problem that you may be running...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink In my previous post , I mentioned how to get the client side logs for Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) for reporting any issues.  In some cases, the client side logs are not enough and to figure...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink Another one of commonly asked question is how can I run Coded UI Test (or any other test type) on a machine without installing Visual Studio on it? You can install Test Agent – the Test Agent...

Visual Studio Unit Test Framework can be used to create unit tests that verify application logic, and data model in your WPF applications. Unit Test Framework is not suitable for testing UI of WPF applications. Coded UI Tests are the recommended approach...

While automating WPF controls in Coded UI Test, the playback would sometimes through an exception with the following error message: “Search may have failed at <ControlX> as it may have virtualized children. If the control being searched is descendant...

In this blog post, Tapas describes the various key points that need to be addressed while implementing a new control support in a Coded UI Test Plugin (a  WPF plugin in this case). A sample WPF Calendar control example gives an in-depth on the various...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta we have fixed some important & high impact bugs that were affecting our customers at large volume. Following is the list of issues that are fixed and we have fixed many more important issues...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 enables basic support for unit tests that target .Net framework 3.5. With this support the users can: Create new unit-test projects and target them to the .NET Framework 3.5. Upgrade VS 2008 unit-test projects...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink Many folks have requested that they want to edit the test case while they are running it in test runner . While this is not possible in the current release ( Microsoft Test Manager 2010), there...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink If you are using recording feature of Coded UI Test or Fast Forward feature of Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and getting the following error - The last action was not recorded because access...