Visual Studio Team Test

In Visual Studio 2010, we introduced the ability to run tests in parallel.  Many machines today have multiple CPU’s or a CPU with multiple cores, so it makes sense that we may want our tests to run in such a way to use all the cores we have available...

Yes, you CAN run your unit tests or any other VS test type on a machine without having Visual Studio IDE installed on that machine. You need the Visual Studio Team Agent to be installed on your test machine to run your tests. This is a 15 min lightweight...

This is Part 1 of two part series. In this part we will focus on - Why is generated code not a straight-line code? In the Part 2 , we will focus on - How is generated code making reusability & customization easier? ... Note: Cross posted from Gautam...

We’re very excited about the recently announced plans to make a publicly available RC (release candidate) of VS10. We’ve done a lot of work since Beta 2 went out, and we’ve been cranking on bug fixes as well as integrating customer feedback. For more...

Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog . Permalink I saw some Qs on forums asking about how to delete a test case from MTM (Microsoft Test Lab Manager). Please note that you can’t delete a test case from MTM. But as test case is eventually a work item...

Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog . Permalink How can I configure MTM to use my custom bug / test case type? I got this Q on my previous blog and thought of posting a separate post on it as it's a bit tricky to do it and hence other folks may...

We use data grids in many of the activities in MTM. By default, only a subset of data columns that we think are important to our users are shown in the data grids due to the limited space. However, you have the option to turn on/off a column. The columns...

Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog . Permalink In Test Runner you can face Data Collectors time out issue while creating bug, ending test case, starting Test Runner etc basically at all points wherever data collectors are generating logs /getting...

Note: Cross posted from Rituparna's Blog . Permalink If you are using CodedUITest to test WPF applications then installing Windows Automation API 3.0 is a pre-requisite. Without this the virtualized controls in WPF wont be played back correctly and...

Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog . Permalink As I had mentioned in my earlier posts that you can enable a number of Diagnostic Data Adapters in test setting so as to collect various types of data while running tests in Test Runner. Sometimes...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam's Blog . Permalink Like any other good product, the Testing Tools in VS also have tracing support to generate the extra trace logs that can help the product team debug the customer issues better.  Though this trace...

Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog . Permalink While executing a test case in Test Runner you’ll have to mark test steps and browse through test steps quite frequently. It won’t be very good experience for tester if he has to move focus back and...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink Multiple folks have asked in forums on how to log a message from a Coded UI Test for tracing\debugging purpose.  I know of as many as 5 ways of doing this from any test type (Coded UI Test...

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So you have probably quickly found out that if you ever have to rebuild your test controller isn’t possible from the installer provided. Here are some steps to help make the process a little easier: Locate the QTControllerConfig.xml file and...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink I have seen multiple queries on “Is running Coded UI Test under Load Test supported?”. Well, the short answer is – yes , it is supported with restriction of one user-load per test agent and...

Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog . Permalink “I’ve NOT marked any test step BUT test case result is auto-computed as passed sometimes and failed sometimes.“ “I’ve marked a few test steps to pass / fail but auto-computed test case result is not...

If you were recording your application while doing manual testing inside MTM, you must have come across a scenario where you wanted to clean up your recording by deleting a few unnecessary actions that were recorded inadvertently. In the example below...

This is Part 2 of two part series. In Part 1 we focused on - Why is generated code not a straight-line code? In this part, we will focus on - How is generated code making reusability & customization easier? ... Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka...