Hi Brian, I was wondering if you could give me a bit of advice. I have mailed Rob Caron too with this question and as it's quite important I thought I would try yourself having read your detailed articles on work items.

My first question is:- "Is it possible to raise new work items without having Visual Studio installed?" eg: could I connect to the Team Project Website and do it this way or via excel?


I ask this as I plan to run some c# automated tests directly on my test machine (the c# tests will be executed without Visual Studio), when/if these tests fail, I would like to raise a work item and assign it to somebody.

This leads me to my second question. I understand that a work item can be a bug, risk etc and that new work items can be created by the user. Can these work items be assigned to a person? From my reading so far I am lead to believe that a work item can only be assigned to a source file/changeset or a build!

I would simply like to be able to run a test and assign a bug to an actual person and not a sourcefile as I may not be testing against a specific source file.

Any advice appreciated, Martin.

We will be building some work item tracking capabilities into the project web site, so you could raise work items this way. We are also going to provide what we are calling the team foundation client. This is a light-weight (30Mb) downloadable client that is targeted at analysts/project leaders. With this installed, you have access to work item tracking OM, and the Excel integration (and Project integration as well).

As far as submitting work items during testing, If you are using Visual Studio Team Tester edition, then this integration is provided for you and you can easily raise work items from the test results window. This integration includes populating the work items with test results information. However, from your question, I believe your test machines will not have VS installed. The TFC could also be used for this case to get the work item OM available on the test machine.

Work items are assigned to people, this is a basic premise. Work items can be associated with a change set as part of the checkin process.

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