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Microsoft Open Day–Testing in Visual Studio 2010

shair — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 22:12:00 GMT

Microsoft Open Day–Testing in Visual Studio 2010

Two days a ago I had the honor to give 4 hours lecture on Testing using Visual Studio 2010 in Microsoft Israel for more than 100 people about the entire suite for Testers in Visual Studio 2010,

This wasn’t just another overview session but hand zone session on each subject:

Microsoft Test Manager – Read More
Lab Management– Read More
Unit Tests – Read More
Web Tests -Read More
Load Test – Read More
Coded UI Test – Read More

You can download the presentation from Here

I hope you had fun and learn about the testing suite coming with Visual Studio 2010, for any questions please feel free to contact me.

Thanks for all participants!

VS 2010 SP1 Beta – Test and Lab Improvements

shair — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 14:28:46 GMT

VS 2010 SP1 Beta – Test and Lab Improvements

On my previous posts I’ve talked about VS/TFS 2010 SP1 Beta has Released, now available for everyone and not just MSDN Subscribers.

Service Pack 1 Beta - General availability download
Service Pack 1 Beta – MS DN Subscribers only download

In the last post I wrote about about Improvements comes with SP1 Beta for VS/TFS 2010 , but not all… from the Testers side there were also a lot improvements and here is some of them:

For the full article read Amit Chatterjee's

Microsoft Test Manager

Support for Expression Encoder 4.0 in Manual testing
Fixes we released as part of hotfix for Microsoft Test Manager
‘Configure Diagnostic Data Adapter-Event Log’ page is truncated in localized version of Microsoft Test Manager
Analyzing test result causes it to become most recent result in the test point trend
Remember Right-To-Left language settings across MTM sessions
Query-based test suite repopulation takes too long for large suites
Microsoft Test Runner : Crash after choosing browser type for FireFox playback
Unable to collect Intellitrace data if application under test is launched as a part of action recording for the test case
Parameterization: Can't bind parameter to password field when creating Action Recording
Microsoft Test Runner: Show test case description in MTR
API: Attachment count for test results returns 0 when iterating through large amount of test results
Performance improvements for Microsoft Test Manager

FastForward/CodedUITest

Fixes we released as part rollup hotfix
Coded UI Test Project is incompatible with Setup/Deploy projects in the same solution
UI Test Controls added to UIMap are case-insensitive
Creating Coded UI Test from existing action recording does not show up alternate credentials dialog
BrowserWindow.FindMatchingControls() throws UITestException

Visual Studio 2010 – What Version Is For Me?

shair — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:29:00 GMT

Visual Studio 2010 – What Version Is For Me?

As you know Visual Studio 2010 Is Released and Available for Download on MSDN.

If you look at your MSDN download section you’ll notice there couple of versions available for download,

In Visual Studio Team System 2005/2008 we had Testing version, Developer (DB) version Architecture version and Suite that contains all.

Visual Studio 2010 comes with 4 editions with more global names (not Tester or Developer):


Test Professional	Professional	Premium	Ultimate

On my previous posts I talked about Visual Studio 2010 Licensing and Upgrades (See Links).
The Ultimate Offer – TFS For Everyone | TFS 2010 Server Licensing

I Don’t Know Which Version Is Enough For Me?

So Let’s find the right version for you!

Developer & DB Professional

If all you need is Visual Studio for Code and Unit Test you need –> Professional edition
Want to manage your DB using Source Control –> Premium
Writing Code and using Profiler to find performance problem inside your code – > Premium

For other cool and important features please look and the table below.

Features	Premium	Ultimate
IntelliTrace (Historical Debugger)		X
Code Metrics	X	X
Profiling	X	X
Static Code Analysis	X	X
Database Deployment	X	X
Database Change Management	X	X
Database Unit Testing	X	X
Database Test Data Generation	X	X

Tester:

As a manual tester without any need of automation of any kind you need –> Test Professional.
As Automation Tester writing CodedUI tests without Web Test and Load Test you need –> Premium
For Load Testing and Web Testing you need –> Ultimate
As Manual and Automation Tester you need – > Ultimate
Using Lab Manager(Hyper-V \ VmWare) – > Test Professional \ Ultimate

Features	Premium	Ultimate	Test Professional
Code Coverage	X	X
Test Impact Analysis	X	X
Coded UI Test	X	X
Web Performance Testing		X
Load Testing		X
Microsoft Test Manager 2010		X	X
Lab Management		X	X

Architecture:

This one is very simple – Only Ultimate will give the you the ability to work with the new Architecture features.

Premium will only allow you to View diagrams without changing them.

Features	Premium	Ultimate
Architecture Explorer		X
UML^® 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component)		X
Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation		X
Read-only diagrams (UML, Layer, DGML Graphs)	X

For Any question please feel free to contact me!

Enjoy.