Microsoft Test & Lab Manager - Interface

Microsoft Test & Lab Manager – Interface

You have properly heard about Microsoft Test & Lab Manager, the new Testing tool coming with Visual Studio 2010.

The new interface for the tester is great, gives you to control your work more easily.

The Context(1) shows on which team project are you working, each context provides the list of plans on which you work.

Microsoft Test & Lab Manager is more than just running tests and for this you can switch views by selecting center group(2), each view has different categories(3) to work with and here is the list of options available under each category.

Testing Center

• Plan – Define the testing plan and set working plan.
• Test – Running Test
• Track – Track you bug and tasks.

Lab Center

• Environments – Manage virtual environments
• Test Settings – define test settings for manual and automatic tests.
• Library – Collection for environments templates.
• Controllers – Manage Test controllers.

Organize

• Test Plans - Define the testing plan
• Configuration – Define configurations on which you want to run tests.
• Test Cases – All Test Cases in the system.
• Shared Steps – Shared step.

By this approach, before start testing you must select the Context(test plan) you are working on, there is not reason to run testing not inside a test plan.

Over the next post I’ll write a lot more about Microsoft Test & Lab Manager.