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Planning vs Testing (Part 5 – Final)
Today, I will finally end this series of blog posts where I’ve been talking about the main...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/25/2009
Planning vs Testing (Part 4)
In previous posts, I’ve been discussing why Planning and Testing views look similar but behave...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/24/2009
Recording Hover’s in CodedUITest
Mouse Hover is an important part of a Application WorkFlow. Hovering on a control brings about...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/23/2009
Order Test Cases
Sometimes, you want to run your tests in a specific order. For example, you are testing an online...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/20/2009
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...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/20/2009
The View Toolbar
You might have noticed above many grids there are two distinct toolbars. The primary one has options...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/20/2009
Beta2 online help
Our doc team (we call them the User Education or the UE team) has been hard at work supplementing...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/19/2009
Artifact Updates
One thing you may not notice, but would if it didn’t work correctly, is what happens when there are...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/19/2009
Terry Clancy Posts About Partner Integration Opportunities
Terry Clancy, a Business Development Manager with Microsoft, has posted about opportunities for...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/18/2009
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...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/17/2009
Planning vs Testing (Part 2)
In a previous blog post, I mentioned some of the reasons why the Planning and Testing views in MTM...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/16/2009
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...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/16/2009
Copy/Paste Test Steps
Test steps are very important in manual testing because they provide the detailed semantics on how...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/16/2009
Tell Us What You Think
We love to hear your feedback and given that our final beta for Visual Studio 2010 is now available...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/13/2009
Create/Edit Test Settings in Test Plan Properties
In manual or automated testing, you will probably want to specify your own test settings when...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/13/2009
Clearing MTM’s Settings
With MTM, we store our settings in your user profile. Specifically the ‘Local App Data’ section of...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/13/2009
Navigating Back and Forward
In a previous post, I briefly mentioned the back and forward buttons. Today I want to talk a bit...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/13/2009
Working with and customizing work item categories
As this previous post explains, before Microsoft Test Manager, there was no real need to know which...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/12/2009
Uploading Large Attachments
During the course of a manual test run, you may end up with large attachments on the test result....
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/12/2009
Work Item Categories
New to TFS in VS2010 is the concept of work item categories. Previously, a work item was known only...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/11/2009
Planning vs Testing
On a previous post by David Williamson, Activity Centers, created on Oct 26th (2009), it was...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/10/2009
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...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/10/2009
Single Instance Application
Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (MTLM) is, for the most part, a single instance application. That is,...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/09/2009
Open Items and Manage Queries
In my last post, I discussed whether Manage Queries is a manager or artifact, and promised to cover...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/06/2009
Manage Queries – Artifact or Manager?
If the most recognizable part of MTLM for anybody who is familiar with VS’s Team Explorer from 2005...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/05/2009
Screenshots!
I’ve been silly lately. I’ve failed to include screenshots with my blog posts. I didn’t realize how...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/04/2009
Using Shared Steps
In MTM, test cases can reference a reusable, sharable set of test steps. This cuts down on the...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/04/2009
New features in Beta2 (compared to Beta1)
We recently announced Beta2 of VS2010. If you have installed the Beta1 release and played with it or...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/03/2009
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...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/03/2009
‘Active’ Tests
In the Run Tests activity, you’ll see test cases grouped up by various states including Active,...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 11/02/2009
Lab Management?
MTLM stands for Microsoft Test and Lab Manager. This blog is dedicated to the testing aspects of...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/30/2009
Test Configurations in a Test Plan
For many, many test teams, we hear that they don’t typically test on more than one configuration....
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/30/2009
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...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/29/2009
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...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/28/2009
Migrating Test Cases
Anutthara blogged about how to migrate test cases using Excel. This wouldn't be hard to do, except...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/27/2009
Activity Centers
When you load up Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (MTLM) and after connecting to a server, project,...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/26/2009
Keyboard Shortcuts in MTLM
I don’t know about you, but I’m a huge fan of keyboard shortcuts. The right shortcuts can really...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/26/2009
Blogger Chris Eargle discovers MTLM
In his recent post titled ‘Microsoft Test and Lab Manager’, Chris reports on reading about MTLM on...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/22/2009
Three kinds of test suites
In Microsoft Test and Lab Manager (MTLM) we have 3 kinds of test suites. The first is just called a...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/22/2009
A new MSDN forum for MTLM!
With the advent of Beta2, we have more forums for the testing features, including an exclusive one...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/21/2009
Beta2 of VS2010 is out!
Our first version of the manual testing experience is out again in Beta2 and has changed...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 10/20/2009
Testing in a Product Iteration
In this article we’ll explore how Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) can help testers and developers work...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 09/21/2009
Extending the Visual Studio Unit Test Type, part 2
In part 1, we introduced Unit Test Type Extensibility, highlighting the main parts of the...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 09/05/2009
Extending the Visual Studio Unit Test Type, part 1
In Visual Studio 2008, if you wanted to create your own test type, or provide additional...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 09/04/2009
Publishing Test Results with the VSTS 2010 TCM Api
There have been many questions about getting test result from third party test frameworks published...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 08/24/2009
Configuring Playback in VSTT 2010
In a previous post, Abhishek had talked about the Record and Playback Engine in VSTT 2010. The...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 08/10/2009
Making the most of your bugs
I like to think of bugs as glue which links software teams together. Developers write the...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 07/31/2009
Video recording of tests
One of the features of Test Edition is to capture video of the test machine. This helps...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 07/16/2009
Test Impact Walk-through
One of our testers has posted and excellent walkthrough on the test impact features in VSTS...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 07/08/2009
Introduction to Record and Playback Engine in VSTT 2010
In an earlier blog entry, we have talked about the Test Runner activity in Microsoft Test and Lab...
Author: VSTS Quality Tools Date: 06/21/2009