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Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 2

August 5, 2016 Aug 5, 2016 08/5/16

Pratap Lakshman

As promised in the previous post, what follows is a recap of all of the Testing-related features implemented and delivered in the Visual Studio 2015 cycle until now. Each of the features might be relevant at a different stage in the lifecycle, but together they serve the single purpose of enabling efficiency - and overlaid on the lifecycle ...

Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 1

July 25, 2016 Jul 25, 2016 07/25/16

Pratap Lakshman

Three releases (VS 2015 Update 3, Visual Studio "15" Preview 3, MSTest V2) featuring Test Platform components in as many months indicate a path best traced by starting from the present. The Test Platform Presently, Visual Studio has an open and extensible test platform with tests being written using various test frameworks and run using a ...

The IntelliTest Reference Manual

June 29, 2016 Jun 29, 2016 06/29/16

Pratap Lakshman

There is something to be said about having a good tool box - after all picking the right tool for a job is also as much about picking the right job for a tool, and the bigger your toolbox, the better the chances are that the best tool you can muster will be the one appropriate for the job at hand. To get the most productivity improvements ...

Remote testing – Distributing tests based on number of machines

June 21, 2016 Jun 21, 2016 06/21/16

Atin Bansal

With Sprint 102 deployment on Visual Studio Team Services, we have enabled tests from within an assembly to be distributed to remote machines using the Run Functional Tests task (formerly called Run Tests using Test Agent). This has been one of the bigger asks from customers around Remote testing. You will see a new check box in the task as ...

Taking the MSTest Framework forward with “MSTest V2”

June 17, 2016 Jun 17, 2016 06/17/16

Pratap Lakshman

Recently, we announced MSTest Framework support for .NET Core RC2 / ASP.NET Core RC2 - this is "MSTest V2" as we fondly call it, and the release sets the direction for how we intend to evolve the MSTest framework. First, some context ... In Visual Studio we have an open and extensible test platform with tests being written using various test ...

Announcing MSTest Framework support for .NET Core RC2 / ASP.NET Core RC2

May 30, 2016 May 30, 2016 05/30/16

Pratap Lakshman

.NET Core RC2 and ASP.NET Core RC2 released just a couple of weeks back. They feature the introduction of the .NET CLI, major changes to the .NET Core SDK (formerly called DNX), the rebranding of ASP.NET 5 to ASP.NET Core, and more. You can read about these on the .NET team blog and the .NET Web Development team blog. We are now pleased to ...