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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 8:00 AM

Work Item Categories

New to TFS in VS2010 is the concept of work item categories. Previously, a work item was known only by its name, and it was up to the user to distinguish what a work item was meant to represent based on the name. Out of the box, a work item may have the
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:38 AM

Planning vs Testing

On a previous post by David Williamson, Activity Centers , created on Oct 26th (2009), it was mentioned that Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (MTLM) has a Plan center group, where you can organize your suites/tests, and a Test center group, where you actually
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:00 AM

Lend a Helping Hand

Imagine a new tester starts working on your team. One of the first things you’ll need to do to help them get ramped up is to have them install Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (MTLM) and then connect to the right server (with or without SSL), port, project
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Monday, November 09, 2009 8:00 AM

Single Instance Application

Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (MTLM) is, for the most part, a single instance application. That is, if you open it a second time from the Start Menu while an instance is already running, the previous instance is brought to the foreground. You will not
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Friday, November 06, 2009 8:00 AM

Open Items and Manage Queries

In my last post , I discussed whether Manage Queries is a manager or artifact, and promised to cover other aspects of behavior. One such distinction of behavior between managers and artifacts is that artifacts show up in Open Items. Managers are just
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 8:00 AM

Manage Queries – Artifact or Manager?

If the most recognizable part of MTLM for anybody who is familiar with VS’s Team Explorer from 2005 and 2008 is the work item, the next most recognizable piece of UI would be Manage Queries . This view is akin to the Work Items node in Team Explorer.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:00 AM

Using Shared Steps

In MTLM, test cases can reference a reusable, sharable set of test steps . This cuts down on the amount of work it takes to author new test cases, because many test cases contain some of the same steps. The ideal use for this is in common tasks. The quintessential
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:00 AM

Test Case Authoring from the Test Plan Contents

A test case is just a work item. You can create a new one from Team Explorer in Visual Studio. You can open Excel and connect to the server from the Team add-in, and create one from there. In MTLM, you can also go to Test Case Manager and create test
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Monday, November 02, 2009 8:00 AM

‘Active’ Tests

In the Run Tests activity, you’ll see test cases grouped up by various states including Active, Failed, Blocked, and Completed. This idea comes from the workflow many customers report to using where they run many tests only once per iteration. So the
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Friday, October 30, 2009 11:47 PM

Lab Management?

MTLM stands for Microsoft Test and Lab Manager. This blog is dedicated to the testing aspects of this application (as well as the other testing features in VS). Even though testers need to use the lab management activities they tend to be doing one type
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Friday, October 30, 2009 8:00 AM

Test Configurations in a Test Plan

For many, many test teams, we hear that they don’t typically test on more than one configuration. This is a big departure from what we at Microsoft are used to. Obviously we have many operating system versions including languages, versions of IE, versions
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Thursday, October 29, 2009 8:00 AM

What is a Test Plan?

A common question we hear is how and when to use a test plan in MTLM. To most testers, a test plan is a document that describes the intended approach to testing for a feature, or more likely a group of features, for a specific release. It typically reviews
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 5:00 PM

Test Steps in MTLM

In a test case , there is a control to enter test steps in the first tab. It has several columns, but typically a person will be adding a test title, and sometimes some expected text. There’s also the ability to add attachments to steps. What you’ll see
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Monday, October 26, 2009 11:50 PM

Activity Centers

When you load up Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (MTLM) and after connecting to a server, project, and plan, you’ll notice the top part of the application is devoted to navigation. Let’s break it down. The first part is the back and forward buttons. This
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Monday, October 26, 2009 10:37 PM

Keyboard Shortcuts in MTLM

I don’t know about you, but I’m a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts. The right shortcuts can really speed up your computer use. For instance, some of my favorite ones in Windows include Win+Break to open computer properties, Win+E to open file explorer,
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