We are letting you know of a few things that are happening in Visual Studio 2010 in regards to generation of Private Accesors and Code Generation. What is Publicize in Visual Studio testing? Publicize is the ability to take internal application...

Note: Cross posted from Siddhartha Pandey - MSFT . Permalink There has been questions regarding how do you search a particular control giving ControlName or ControlId etc. So I thought it is a good opportunity to blog about it. I will be covering...

Folks can use the following link to view the recording of the MSDN web cast on " Extending the Coded UI Test ". Cross posted from Siddhartha Pandey blog

The VSTS Rangers have come up with this great set of content on VS2010 ALM that is basically intended to answer the q “Tell me about VS2010 ALM in 5 mins”. The Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance consists of compact cheat sheets for Team Foundation...

Hi Again, So far we have talked about how features & benefits of MTLM when used for the tests that are predefined. E.g. creating actionable bugs, using fast forwarding & so on. Many times testers test the application in ways that are not predefined...

Hi Again, Let’s talk about an important concept in test case design – reusability. As testers you know that there are few steps that may be common in many test cases e.g. steps to log into the application may be common to multiple test cases. In other...

Hi again, Today we will talk about data driving a test. As is very clear to all testers, if a test requires some data input in AUT, it should be tested with different data sets (e.g. verify that the application works with boundary conditions, wrong data...

Hi again, In one of the previous blogs we had talked that to reduce the time spend on less important tasks, MTLM provides a functionality called Fast Forwarding. The goal of this feature was to allow testers to quickly go to the step in the test case...

Hi Again, The next topic to cover is the filing actionable bugs using the tool. However, I already have an old blog that explains this in detail: http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2009/05/26/create-actionable-bugs.aspx Other links: - Video...

Hi again, As we discussed in last blog in this series, let’s explore the features & functionalities of Microsoft Test Runner (MTR). The component is used for execution of manual tests. Manual tests can be authored in the MTLM by going to Test Plan...

Hi everyone, I hope you are using the MTLM beta2 release & finding it useful. I wanted to blog a few posts & talk about the Microsoft Test Runner component of the product that is used for execution of manual tests. I will talk about how it got...

I'd like to announce the beta availability of Team Test's first PowerTool release for Visual Studio 2010: Test Scribe.  This tool allows users of Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Beta 2 to generate a Word 2007-compatible Test Plan Document from their...

Visual Studio 2010 in a huge number of new features and capabilities across a wide range of disciplines.  In many cases these features are small continual improvements to existing features areas and they tend to get lost in the hubbub of the big...

A common problem in writing test automation against an API is that you need to be able to load the assemblies containing the code under test (CUT) into the test process.  There are several options which have been employed in the past to ensure that...

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...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink The table below is summary of the current support for various platforms for Coded UI Test feature of VS 2010 and Fast Forward feature of Test Runner . We have shared this table earlier also...

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. ... Note: Cross posted from Get Test Go...

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...

Language(s): English. Product(s): Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. Audience(s): Pro Dev/Programmer.     Duration: 60 Minutes Start Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:00 AM Pacific Time (US & Canada) Event Link: http://msevents.microsoft.com...

I have posted a series of blogs on extensibility support in Coded UI Test . Introduction to Coded UI Test Extensibility “Hello, World” Extension for Coded UI Test Introducing Sample Excel Extension Technology Adapter of Sample Excel Extension Property...

Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog . Permalink You may find sometimes that video log (.wmv) generated by Video Recorder data collector is not proper and doesn’t playback anything when you try to play it back. You won’t see any error message / warning...