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Visual Studio 11 Beta – Unit Testing Plugins List

March 1, 2012 Mar 1, 2012 03/1/12
Peter Provost [MSFT]
One of the things I’m really proud of in the new Visual Studio 11 developer experience is the investment we made in developer and unit testing. We first started talking about this back at the //BUILD/ conference, and since then have spent a lot of time working with community partners to get them ready for the Beta release today.I’m...

How To: Get all test points assigned to you?

February 2, 2012 Feb 2, 2012 02/2/12
Gautam Goenka [MSFT]
Based on my previous post, one question that came up was - How do I, as a tester, know what test points are assigned to me? In Test->Run Tests, you can click on Filter on the left side to do filtering by Tester andor Configurations.  Refer the screenshots below. (image)   (image) (image...

New MSDN topic: Coded UI Extension for custom controls

February 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012 02/1/12
Shubhra Maji MSFT
The Visual Studio team has released MSDN documentation on Enable Coded UI Testing of Your Custom Controls. Please go through the step-by-step implementation of Coded UI extension points to achieve various levels of support. The document describes how to make a custom ChartControl with CurveLegend child object work with ...

Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback

January 31, 2012 Jan 31, 2012 01/31/12
Tapas Sahoo [MSFT]
In this blog post I’ll go through some approaches you can make use of in your Coded UI Test project to achieve better playback performance. Meanwhile, do check an earlier post here that covers some common scenarios.  As I see, there are lot of APIs and settings available that the Coded UI Test user can leverage to hand-code a more ...

Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey

January 19, 2012 Jan 19, 2012 01/19/12
Shubhra Maji MSFT
Have you used Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools - Coded UI Test or Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) in your project(s)? If so, we would like to hear your experience with these features. Let us know what you think by taking the Coded UI / Microsoft Test Manager Survey.Thanks!Shubhra Maji – Visual Studio Test Tools Program Manager...

FAQ: Why are my tests not included in the test run?

January 16, 2012 Jan 16, 2012 01/16/12
Gautam Goenka [MSFT]
As an alternative to Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), users can use tcm.exe command line to run and manage their test cases.  The command line way is particularly useful in running tests in non-interactive way (say via scripts). FAQ: While using “tcm.exe run” command to run all the test cases in a test plansuite is - A: By default...