Walkthroughs for Test Edition

These walkthroughs introduce the major feature areas of Visual Studio Team System Test Edition. Using a series of step-by-step instructions, the following walkthroughs illustrate how to create tests, how to run them, and how to obtain test results.

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• Walkthrough: Creating and Running Unit Tests
  Leads you through the steps to create and customize unit tests, run them, and examine the test results.

• Walkthrough: Run Tests and View Code Coverage
  Builds on a previous walkthrough to show how to view code coverage data, which shows the proportion of your project's code that is being tested.

• Walkthrough: Recording and Running a Web Test
  In this walkthrough, you create a Web test from a browser recording, and verify that it works correctly. You will also view request properties and specify a proxy server.

• Walkthrough: Creating a Coded Web Test
  In this walkthrough you convert a recorded Web test into a coded Web test. After you convert the Web test to a coded Web test, you add new code to the Web test, and verify that it works correctly.

• Walkthrough: Adding Data Binding to a Web Test
  In this walkthrough, you add data binding to a Web test and verify that it works correctly. You also create a simple text file data source to bind to.

• Walkthrough: Adding Validation and Extraction Rules to a Web Test
  In this walkthrough, you will add validation and extraction rules to a Web test and verify that they work correctly.

• Walkthrough: Creating and Running a Manual Test
  Leads you through the steps to add a test project and a manual test to your solution, author the manual test, and run it.

• Walkthrough: Creating and Running a Generic Test
  In this walkthrough, you create a program to wrap as a generic test. Then, you create and run the generic test. You also follow steps to pass command-line arguments and deploy files when you run the test.

• Walkthrough: Creating and Running a Load Test
  Leads you through the steps to create a load test, change its settings, and then run it.

• Walkthrough: Managing Tests Using Lists and Properties
  Leads you through the steps to create a test list, add tests to it, copy tests between test lists, and disable tests by using a test property.

• Walkthrough: Using the Command-line Test Utility
  In this walkthrough, you use the MSTest.exe command-line utility to run tests that you created in a previous walkthrough.

• Walkthrough: Using a Configuration File to Define a Data Source
  A data-driven unit test is a unit test that is run repeatedly for each row in a data source. This walkthrough shows how to define, in an app.config file, a data source that will supply data to a data-driven unit test.

• Walkthrough: Creating and Running a Smart Device Unit Test
  A smart device unit test is a unit test that is run on a device or emulator. This walkthrough shows how to create and run a smart device unit test.