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How To: Get the Test Case associated with the unit test?
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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...
Storyboarding with PowerPoint – Short Videos to Get You Started
We’ve created a few videos to help you quickly get started with PowerPoint Storyboarding. Each video lasts between 1 and 2 minutes. Getting Started To see this in action: [View:http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-45-92/4263.GettingStarted.wmv] Add and Share Custom Shapes Using MyShapes When you can’t find the shape you’re looking for in your Storyboard Shapes pane, you can create a custom shape and share shapes with other team members. We’ve added functionality to create, import, and export MyShapes. [View:http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-fil...
ALM Summit 2011 Content Now Live and available
Working with MSDN and Channel9, the ALM Summit folks have posted all Session the content at: https://channel9.msdn.com/events/alm-summit/2011 If you are looking for recommendations my top 5 were: Â
Interested in Agile Adoption across different industries and geographies?
One of the pioneers of the application quality ecosystem, Theresa Lanowitz, has founded Voke – a company focused Application Lifecycle virtualization and convergence markets. A big part of her and Voke’s focus right now is insight how different development methodologies are doing. If you want a free copy of her latest research data all you have to do is take a short survey (took me 15 minutes). I won’t steal any of her Thunder but it is interesting data! The survey can be found here: survey link.
Team Foundation Service December Update
Today, I’m proud to announce a significant update to our hosted Team Foundation Service. In the 3 months since we went public with the service at //build/, we’ve pushed over a dozen updates to address bugs that customers have reported or we’ve witnessed in production. This update, however, is the first time you’ll see significant new functionality in the service. We continue to iterate on new capabilities for TFS 11 and will frequently update the Team Foundation Preview Service with that functionality. So, without further ado, here’s a top hits list of what’s coming! Navigation Updates As we’ve used the previe...
Team Foundation Service Preview – Get Started with Agile Planning Tools
UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. ** This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. Here we walk quickly through the entire cycle of Agile planning: Create a backlog, plan a sprint, set capacity for your team, and viewing a task board for the daily standup. Note that these steps are based on the Scrum process template and will vary with other templates. Done! You’ve added items to your backlog, put them in a sprint, created tasks and team capacity, and started work. Now you can click the ...