Visual Studio Team Test

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...

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...

Whether we’re running automated or manual test cases, whenever we come across a failure it is often a good idea to log the issue in the bug database. In the Test Results window after a test run, you can use the list of failures to investigate a failure...

Welcome Hi I’m Michael Brisset a Quality Assurance Engineer for Visual Studio Team System. Welcome to CodeGen University ! While we don’t have diplomas or faculty (or exams) we do have a pretty good football team . Over the next few months I am going...

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...

Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 enables basic support for unit tests that target .Net framework 3.5. If the devenv.exe.config file has been modified by the user before applying this Service Pack, then additional steps are required to enable the feature...

Using ASP.NET unit tests, you can test classes and methods that are part of an ASP.NET web site. This is often very similar to testing anything else, since you can use code generation on classes that are within the App_Code directory for the site. Unfortunately...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Whenever we talk about platform coverage for UI automation one of the frequent requests is support for Silverlight app testing. We have been hard at work trying to cater to this need and here is an update on where we are with this roadmap. We are working...

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...

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...

In a previous post, Abhishek had talked about the Record and Playback Engine in VSTT 2010 .  The Coded UI Test feature in VSTT 2010 also uses this engine to playback UI actions.  In this post, i will describe the various settings for Playback...

As I talk to customers I find that there are many different work flow models. I use the term “work flow” to describe all the things you do to get complete your objectives. That work flow can be documented and shared with others at the office. Having a...

What’s new from Team Test? We’re excited to show some of the features in our Test Case Management Solution ! It’s all about creating a simple product that will be easy to use and will make your life easier. If manual tests are part of your daily work...

Today, we announced the broad availability of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 and it is now available for download. We encourage you to download, evaluate and provide us your feedback. This is the culmination of the work done by the team and we...

Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System 2010 introduces a new Test Template named "Coded UI Test".  You can verify the functionality of user interfaces with Coded UI Test. You can create a  Coded UI Test  by recording actions and...

In part 1 , we introduced Unit Test Type Extensibility, highlighting the main parts of the interface.  In this round, we will discuss three additional pieces: Adding a user interface Parameterizing the test method Aggregating test results UI extension...

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...

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...

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...

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...