Visual Studio 2015 Test Tools getting started content

Visual Studio Testing Tools enables development teams ensure higher quality applications and adopt latest testing practices. These Testing tools provide insightful information enabling development teams to reproduce and fix issues sooner and faster. Ensuring higher quality applications and a better customer experience. In addition, the testing team can be more productive while planning, executing and tracking tests, both with the web-based test tools using Visual Studio Team Services or with the rich experience provided by Visual Studio and Microsoft Test Manager. One of the most common requests for Visual Studio Testing Tool, is for getting started content. To this end this post will highlight the labs, videos and getting started posts that will help you get started.

If you happen to be doing a presentation on all the new Test Tools feature this presentation or this one Dev313_CI_Test_TechReady22 may help you!

Manual Testing	Test Automation	Load Testing
Manual Testing Videos	Test Automation Videos	Load Testing Videos
Browser-based Exploratory Testing in Visual Studio Team Services	Continuous Testing with Visual Studio Online	What is new with Cloud-based Loading Testing in Visual Studio Team Services
Test Planning with Test Hub on Visual Studio Online	Browser-based Exploratory Testing in Visual Studio Team Services	New Load Test Experience in Azure
Creating test cases with Test Hub on Visual Studio Online (sorry about the audio track!)	Testing Java Applications with Visual Studio Team Services	Cloud-based Load Test at Build 2014
Managing test steps and test data with Test Hub on Visual Studio Online (sorry about the audio track!)	Unit Testing from a CI Build with Visual Studio Team Services	Performance Testing in DevOps workflows
Test Planning with Test Hub on Visual Studio Online (sorry about the audio track!)	A DevOps and Test Automation walk through for Visual Studio Team Services	New Visual Studio Online Load Test Experience
Manual Test Tools For Integrating Testers Into A DevOps World

Manual Testing Blog Posts	Test Automation Blog Posts	Load Testing Blog Posts
Announcing easy to use browser-based exploratory testing for Visual Studio Team Services	Coded UI Test Extensibility V2	Creating Load Test Plugins for Cloud-based Load Test
Getting Started with DevTest Labs for Azure	Testing Java Applications with Visual Studio Team Services	Scheduling Load Test Execution
Test Planning and Management Guide – Updated	Test Results in Build	Announcing Public Preview for Performance/Load testing of Azure Webapp
Test Plan and Test Suite Customization	Supplying Run Time Parameters to Tests	Load Testing from different geographies with Cloud-based load testing
New Web Access Test features walk through	Continuous Deployment: Dev/Test in Azure and Deploy to Production On-premises	Cloud Load Test Support in mstest.exe command line and XAML Builds
Dev/Test Scenarios in the DevOps World	Speeding up Unit Test Execution in TFS	Announcing support for Goal-based Load Pattern in Cloud-based Load Tests
	IntelliTest – One Test to rule them all	Collecting Advanced Agent Diagnostics Data in Cloud-based Load Test

(Much of this leverage from the great Alm DevOps feature index

Manual Testing Help Content	Test Automation Help Content	Load Testing Help Content
Exploratory Testing Preview	Introduction to IntelliTest with Visual Studio Enterprise 2015	Introduction to Web Performance and Load Testing with Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 2015	Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
Explore user stories without test cases or test steps using Test Manager and exploratory testing.	Unit Testing, Code Coverage and Code Clone Analysis with Visual Studio 2015	Load testing (VSTS)You can run a basic load test on your web app or site directly from your VSTS account, no other tools necessary.
Record and play back manual testsWith Microsoft Test Manager, you can record your keystrokes and gestures while you test an application. The next time you run the test, you can play back your actions quickly and accurately.	Coded UI testingUse Visual Studio to create Coded UI tests to test your application’s user interface.
Track test status and test resultsQuickly view the status of your testing using lightweight charts.	Run test with your builds for continuous integrationUse continuous integration builds to run tests automatically.
Test permissionsSet permissions on who can manage test configurations, test environments, and publish and delete test results.	Review automated test results after a buildReview your test results to analyze any problems that were found.
Shared steps and shared parametersCreate shared steps to include often repeated sequence of steps in your manual test cases, such as logging in. Repeat manual tests with different data using shared parameters.	Test environmentsSpecify a combination of hardware and software that represents a user or machine environment in which your app will run
Manual tests plans and test casesCreate test plans and test cases to track manual testing for sprints or milestones.	Generate unit tests for your code with IntelliTest
Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 2015