Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink One question that I have been asked multiple times is - When I’m trying to bind the user scenario with the test cases through Microsoft Test Manager, I see the link type “Tests” but this is not...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink If you are working with lots of builds (or few but very large builds) in MTM and are seeing performance issues like starting a new test run taking few minutes, then probably this QFE will help you...

Earlier today, Dave Mendlen, senior director of Developer Marketing, announced that Lab Management functionality in Visual Studio 2010 would be generally available at the end of August. One of the key aspects of this announcement was that Lab Management...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink Typically when you are testing, you are testing against a build. Because of this, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) (part of Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 ) integrates with TFS Build and lets...

Note: Cross posted from Siddhartha Pandey - MSFT . Permalink Below is a simple XAML code. <Grid.ColumnDefinitions> <ColumnDefinition MaxWidth="400" MinWidth="250" Width="250" ...

Note: Cross posted from Siddhartha Pandey - MSFT . Permalink Many of the customers have reported that they see NotSupportedException/NotImplementedException being thrown when debugging a Codeduitest. The NotSupportedException/NotImplementedException here...

We updated the Test Scribe Power Tool for TCM today to include a fix allowing it to function correctly in the scenario where both Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 are installed on the same machine. If you have an older version...

Troubleshooting Network Emulation This document is based on a recent premier customer support experience on trouble shooting the Network Emulation driver in VS2010 Ultimate when doing load testing. This will provide some helpful hints and pointer to sample...

The newest release of Test Scribe now sits inside the Microsoft® Test Manager product as an integrated set of activities. Whereas before you would have a separate user experience for using the Test Scribe tool, now you must use the Test Manager product...

The newest release of Test Scribe now sits inside the Microsoft® Test Manager product as an integrated set of activities. Whereas before you would have a separate user experience for using the Test Scribe tool, now you must use the Test Manager product...

I’m pleased to announce a major update to the Test Scribe power tool currently available in the Visual Studio Gallery . Test Scribe is a documentation tool designed to construct documents directly from the TFS and TCM operational stores for the...

We have updated the “ Test Case Migrator Plus (Excel/MHT) ” tool (previously called Test Case Migrator) on codeplex today!!! What's new for this version (RC2) With this new drop in RC2, the following functionality has been added to the Excel based workflow...

When testing Silver Light applications, we frequently run into dealing with non-Html content types. This is because most of the Silver Light applications use WCF RIA web services. Typically, this will be a binary format called MSBin1. Also, Silver Light...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink In my earlier series on extensibility of Coded UI Test , I mentioned that it is possible to write your own client using UITest Object Model i.e. use the recording for something else.  This...

Hello everyone - Please find some answers to the most common questions that we have been getting asked below. We will try to keep this updated over time. Automation Q: What is the difference between what Microsoft Test Manager offers and Record &...

Syed just posted a blog about how to import unit tests from multiple assemblies in one hit. Check out http://blogs.msdn.com/syedmehdi/archive/2010/04/22/how-to-import-multiple-unit-test-assemblies-using-tcm-exe.aspx Thanks Bruce Taimana

Today, I was working with a customer that was have a performance problem with Microsoft Test Manager. Upon investigation, we found out that the customer had a large number of builds (many thousands in this case), but hadn’t scoped their test plan to a...

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 ... Note: Cross posted from Get...

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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...

Introduction Test Package for Mozilla Firefox will be a feature pack for Visual Studio 2010 that enables playback of UI actions on a website/web application that have been recorded on Windows Internet Explorer 7 and 8 on Mozilla Firefox web browser. Currently...

Introduction In Visual Studio 2010, CodedUITest provides partial support to MFC applications. It uses MSAA (Microsoft Active Accessibility) which is a part of Windows Automation API 2.0 to drive the automation on MFC controls. The same plugin also supports...

Introduction UITest framework supports Sharepoint 2007 & 2010 as any other ASP.Net application. This blog gives you an overview of what is not supported in SharePoint in Visual Studio 2010 release.   Assumption Since UITest uses IE pluggin for...

In the Part 1 of this blog we looked at how the WPF plugin of UITest framework records and playback actions. In this blog we will look at known issues with this plugin and how to troubleshoot failures      WPF Config Matrix UITest...

Introduction UITest uses Windows Automation API 2.0/3.0 also known as UI Automation (UIA) to drive the automation on WPF controls. UITest supports WPF applications developed on top of .net 3.5/4.0 framework. However the level of support for UITest Applications...