Welcome to MSDN Blogs Sign in | Join | Help

Browse by Tags

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 7:14 PM

Planning vs Testing (Part 5 – Final)

Today, I will finally end this series of blog posts where I’ve been talking about the main differences that you will find in Planning and Testing views (although they appear to be very similar at a first glance). You can find the previous posts here:
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 24, 2009 7:36 PM

Planning vs Testing (Part 4)

In previous posts, I’ve been discussing why Planning and Testing views look similar but behave differently. You can refer to them by clicking on Part 1 , Part 2 , or Part 3 . Sometimes, depending on the organization, planning is done by some people, and
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Monday, November 23, 2009 11:02 AM

Recording Hover’s in CodedUITest

Mouse Hover is an important part of a Application WorkFlow. Hovering on a control brings about changes in the application which leads to Controls appearing/disappearing , Properties of the controls being changed ,new windows coming up etc. Needless to
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Filed under: ,
Saturday, November 21, 2009 1:04 AM

Order Test Cases

Sometimes, you want to run your tests in a specific order. For example, you are testing an online shopping site. You want to test the work flow of Login, Browse items, Search items, Add items to cart and Check out. You have the test cases for each step
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Friday, November 20, 2009 8:14 PM

Planning vs Testing (Part 3)

In part 1 and part 2 of the series, I have mentioned reasons why we use similar views for planning and executing test cases (and I have discussed what makes these views different). Today, I will focus on yet another specific reason: Configurations. We
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Friday, November 20, 2009 8:00 AM

The View Toolbar

You might have noticed above many grids there are two distinct toolbars. The primary one has options for interacting with items in the list. The other one that is right-aligned is for managing the view. Here are some examples: 1. Verify Bugs – change
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 19, 2009 9:25 PM

Beta2 online help

Our doc team (we call them the User Education or the UE team) has been hard at work supplementing the product with great deal lot of additional documentation to help you understand the various features in the product and to best leverage them. The table
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:09 PM

Artifact Updates

One thing you may not notice, but would if it didn’t work correctly, is what happens when there are two representations of the same item in different places and when one of the two instances changes. One example is opening a manager activity which lists
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 9:26 PM

Terry Clancy Posts About Partner Integration Opportunities

Terry Clancy, a Business Development Manager with Microsoft, has posted about opportunities for partners. It is also a good overview of the features across Team Test and Team Lab, how things fit together, and includes plenty of screenshot eye candy. http://blogs.msdn.com/terryclancy/archive/2009/11/18/visual-studio-2010-test-tools-partner-integration-opportunities.asp
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:41 PM

Writing Queries for Custom Work Items and Work Item Categories

I talked about customizing work items and how this can be used with categories to get the best out of MTLM before , now I will expand on that topic and show you how to compose queries to include this extra level of information. If you go to the Queries
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Monday, November 16, 2009 11:26 PM

Planning vs Testing (Part 2)

In a previous blog post , I mentioned some of the reasons why the Planning and Testing views in MTLM look very similar but behave differently. Today, in this post, I will continue talking about this. As you can see when playing around with the product,
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Monday, November 16, 2009 9:46 PM

Zen and the Art of Test Case Composition

I’ve posted an article on my MSDN blog about strategies and considerations when composing your test cases.  If you’re familiar with Test Case Authoring in MTLM ( Ryan Vogrinec and David R. Williamson both have helpful posts on the subject), you can
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Monday, November 16, 2009 9:29 PM

Copy/Paste Test Steps

Test steps are very important in manual testing because they provide the detailed semantics on how each test case is to be validated and ultimately completed.  That said, if you consider most manual test cases will have several steps each and most
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Friday, November 13, 2009 11:46 PM

Tell Us What You Think

We love to hear your feedback and given that our final beta for Visual Studio 2010 is now available this is your best opportunity to influence the product. In Microsoft Test and Lab Manager(MTLM) we are using the Microsoft Customer Experience Improvement
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
Friday, November 13, 2009 10:48 PM

Create/Edit Test Settings in Test Plan Properties

In manual or automated testing, you will probably want to specify your own test settings when running tests. The test settings associated with the test plan will be used by default when you click Run button in Run Tests. There are two ways to create or
Posted by VSTS Quality Tools | 0 Comments
More Posts Next page »
 
Page view tracker