Visual Studio Team Test

When working with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), you might want to run two at a time. We often want this internally so we can test MTM with MTM. However, when we created MTM, we didn’t want people to accidently open up multiple instances just because they...

Sometimes when using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), you want to quickly zip around the application, without using the mouse. We’ve enabled this in MTM with a number of keyboard shortcuts: Area Shortcut Backwards Alt+Left, Back Key (multimedia keyboards...

I’d like to announce an update to Test Scribe that is compatible with Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate (RC).  In particular, we’ve addressed some issues in side-by-side with Orcas, and updated the tool for compatibility with the RC release of...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink A while back, I got following question from a user of Coded UI Test   We want to run the same test across multiple environments to ensure everything is still working correctly. Dev->...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink We have collected various internal and external feedback and built up a library of utility functions for Coded UI Test for various Web\Win\WPF controls.  These APIs will work on VS2010...

The upgrade tool is now available in Visual Studio Gallery .   The following changes were made in Coded UI Test between VS 2010 Beta2 and RC. 1. UserControls.cs file has been removed. All specialized classes (HtmlButton, WinEdit, WpfCheckbox etc...

Most people will be focused on one test plan for a period of time, and won’t be swapping between plans multiple times in a day. But not everyone will be. There are those of you working on multiple test plans at the same time, and need to swap between...

This is the start of a series of posts that will hopefully help you understand how you can utilize the warehouse in Team Foundation Server to generate reports on your test management data. Out of the box you get a number of useful reports that should...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink One of the FAQs on Coded UI Test is how to make playback wait for certain event? For example, how to wait for the window to show up or how to wait for the progress bar to disappear etc. The...

Sometimes when you are working in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) you want to share the artifact you are looking at, or you need someone else work on a specific artifact. This can be done by asking the user to: Start MTM Connect To plan 7 Go to Test Case...

Those of you who have played around with the Beta2 release of VS2010 may be wondering what new pieces of functionality we’ve added to the testing tools for the RC release in response to all of the wonderful feedback. Here is a table summarizing the key...

Note: Cross posted from Gautam Goenka (MSFT) . Permalink One question that keeps coming up is “How to configure search properties used by the recorder\code generation for identifying the control?”. For example, inform recorder that the Name of the...