{"id":2973,"date":"2013-06-04T01:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/visualstudioalm\/2013\/06\/04\/testing-improvements-in-team-foundation-service-update-for-teched-2013\/"},"modified":"2022-07-19T07:01:06","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:01:06","slug":"testing-improvements-in-team-foundation-service-update-for-teched-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/testing-improvements-in-team-foundation-service-update-for-teched-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing Improvements in Team Foundation Service Update for TechEd 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Brian said <\/a>we have made a ton of improvements for Testers with the Team Foundation Service released during TechEd.\u00a0 In looking at the last two sprints in TFS I see over 14 new features!<\/p>\n

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  1. Add\/rename\/delete new parameters and values to a test case<\/li>\n
  2. Run a suite using a single gesture<\/li>\n
  3. Drag and drop between suites and test cases<\/li>\n
  4. Manage attachments to test steps in the test case creation\/editing dialog<\/li>\n
  5. Insert existing Shared Steps during Test case authoring<\/li>\n
  6. Create test plans<\/li>\n
  7. Create new test suite for selected test plan<\/li>\n
  8. Add Requirement based suites to the selected test plan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n
  9. Create Query based suites for the selected test plan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n
  10. Use hierarchical queries for adding Test cases to a Test suite<\/li>\n
  11. Add existing test cases to a static or requirements based suite<\/li>\n
  12. Create new Shared Steps during Test case authoring<\/li>\n
  13. Shift+Enter for multiline and ENTER<\/strong> for adding new row (Yeah!)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/li>\n
  14. Create new test steps at any row instead of only at the end<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Many of these features are self explanatory but thought i would high light some my favorites!<\/p>\n

    Add\/rename\/delete new attachments, parameters and values to a test case<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    One of the best way for testers to walk through a test case is to have a rich information set guiding them during the execution.\u00a0 By adding support for attaching images, shared steps and parameters testers should have a much better success when running their tests.\u00a0 For more information on using these features see: http:\/\/tfs.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/create-tests<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Run all the test cases in an entire suite using a single gesture<\/font><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    Being able to execute all the Test cases in a Test suite is a huge convenience and one that we have added to the Test Hub in this Team Foundation Server service release.\u00a0<\/p>\n

    For a walk through of running tests see: http:\/\/tfs.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/run-tests<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Drag and drop Test cases to Test suites<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    I am invariably creating Test cases in the root of a Test plan and enabling dragging and dropping Test cases to different Test suites is a huge benefit that i have already had to use several times!<\/p>\n

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    Create Test plans and new types of Test suites<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    The intent is for Testers to be able to do most of there work from the Test hub of Team Foundation Server and being able to create Test suites: static, query based and hierarchical and Test plans really facilitate this!<\/p>\n

    For a great walk through of using these features please see: http:\/\/tfs.visualstudio.com\/en-us\/create-a-test-plan<\/a><\/p>\n

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    Shift+Enter for multiline and ENTER for adding new row<\/font><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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    I am so happy this was changed to match the Microsoft Test Manager keystrokes!\u00a0 I have lost track of how many times i have messed up demos due to hitting enter to get a new step.<\/p>\n

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    As Brian said we have made a ton of improvements for Testers with the Team Foundation Service released during TechEd.\u00a0 In looking at the last two sprints in TFS I see over 14 new features! Add\/rename\/delete new parameters and values to a test case Run a suite using a single gesture Drag and drop between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,252],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devops","category-testing"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

    As Brian said we have made a ton of improvements for Testers with the Team Foundation Service released during TechEd.\u00a0 In looking at the last two sprints in TFS I see over 14 new features! Add\/rename\/delete new parameters and values to a test case Run a suite using a single gesture Drag and drop between […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}