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FAQ: Why are my tests not included in the test run?
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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, “tcm.exe run /create” command creates a test run for only tests (or rather test points for more knowledgeable ones) in active state and ignores tests not in active state. (Refer screenshot below to understand what I mean by active state here.) This is deliberate to ensure users can...
.NET Performance Diagnostics: How and Where to Start -User Group Meeting January 18th Eagan, MN
I really need to get out to the MN usergroup! They seem to have some of the best most consistent topics around! January 18th, 2012 5:00-6:30pm Click to Attend Description Everyone has that application that just doesn't perform as well as it should, or that one application that you think might be a bit slow, but are not 100% sure. Well this presentation will help get you to the bottom of it, starting out with a discussion around the process of performing both pro-active and reactive performance analysis, the presentation will morph into a full demonstration of Performance ...
Microsoft Test Manager stuck in “waiting for test controller” state
This is guest post by Deepak Mittal, who is Senior Support Engineer in this space.Problem description:Microsoft Test Manager is stuck in "waiting for test controller" status after completion of test execution.Resolution: MTM tracing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gautamg/archive/2011/01/20/how-to-enable-tracing-for-mtm.aspx Test Controller tracing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/aseemb/archive/2009/11/28/how-to-enable-test-controller-logs.aspx Side note: You may notice the same kind of behavior for stat...
How To: Associate automation programmatically
In my previous post, I mentioned about tcm testcase /import scenario. The tcm testcase /import associates the test case artifact with automation (which is unit test or other test type). Another FAQ related to this scenario is - Q: How can I programmatically associate automation (because I want to do some customization of my own)? A: You can simply use the below code snippet. (You will need to add the same references as in previous post).
How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test?
For running and managing unit tests using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), the users have to do tcm testcase /import of the test assembly. This step creates a test case work item corresponding to unit test on the client side. With this, users can do many new scenarios – most importantly start viewing the history/trend of the result. A FAQ that I have heard many times in internal and external forums is around this is - Q: How to determine programmatically retrieve the test case artifact corresponding to this unit test? A: Because of various reasons (legacy, loose coupling, extensibility etc), the unit test does ...
How To: Bulk edit action recording?
Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) has test runner using which one can do manual testing. One of the features that many folks use while doing manual testing using test runner is the Fast Forward feature. With this feature, a tester can do an action recording and later use that to fast forward the test with playback of the recording. A while back, this question came up in our internal forum on the above feature - Q: My customer has a lot of existing manual tests with action recordings and there are some changes in the UI Map that they want to update for all the existing action recordings to avoid having to re-record t...
Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test
Some important notes before I talk about the utility - The attached sample utility adds support for XPath query to Coded UI Test for searching controls. The utility uses built-in XPath parser and other classes of .NET and as such is conformant to .NET’s XPath Syntax. The new utility assembly adds two extension methods to UITestControl class – To use these methods, unzip the attached sample and add reference in your Coded UI Test project to the UITestXPathUtility.dll. (Note that you have manually ensure this dll is there on all machines on which the tests are run.) Some ...
Want to give feedback for Visual Studio 11 etc and receive cool gifts?
The Microsoft Visual Studio Design Research Team i.e. the folks that work on the user interface for Visual Studio are doing rounds of usability labs –and would love for you to participate! Specifically they are looking for participants to give us direct feedback on our development tools, languages and libraries! Opportunities include usability studies of upcoming features, focus groups where we explore new ideas, as well as 1:1 interviews. (I think their next lab is on Intellitrace ) What do you get out of it? We have a brief enrollment form that will ask you a few quest...