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I have posted about the “Microsoft Test and Lab Management” (MTLB) first when the Beta 1 was introduced. In this post I will show the changes made since Beta 1, you can read my post here . The menu in Beta 1 was this: In Beta 2 you can only find 2 sections: The Organize section is now part of the Testing Center sub menus. lets take a peek at the sub menus in the Beta 2: If you will compare that to Beta 1 you will see that the same functionality and menus stayed the same but is reorganized in the...
I have started to work on a Quick Guide for the “Microsoft Test And Lab Management” after a lot of users that likes to understand and try the tool. The quick guide is posted in my personal blog here and will be spread on a few posts where the first one is published here . There is also an introduction post here that can give a good idea on what this tool can do. The quick guide will be published in the “Team System Guides” codeplex site here when finished, I will post on that too. Have Fun!!!
YES WE DO!!! You can read more on the blog post here . Have Fun!!!
I have seen many answers to this question, all talking about matrixes, what should I test, How should I test etc. Not many answers to this question talked about the overall process of development, the bigger picture… The testing process is part of much bigger picture of development that involves the developers, testers, managers, stockholders, marketing and more. Lets start with what stops the development in general, that will be the time to market of course, no product no matter how good it is will...
We have seen that our little bug was caught and documented on the last Bugs Life post, if you didn’t read that yet you can read it here . “ Dear diary, Today I have got my verdict, Obama the Project Manager has decided to “Fix” me. They say that it will be expansive to “fix” me but it will cost more to leave me unfixed, they say that this part of the software is not a critical part but still will be used by part of the customers and loosing there trust will cost more than the “fix” cost. Dennis the...
I have recently posted about bugs in: Are All Bugs Should Be Fixed? there I promised to post about how to manage bugs. How to manage bugs is a little boring subject so I will try to explain it in a different way. I will quote from a bug’s diary in the “Bugs Life” posts so we can understand what happens from a “bug’s perspective”, I will add my own explanations to it so we can understand the process. I hope you will like it, lets start… This diary has been written in what our bug describes as “Jail...
Many times when I record a web test, I do that on my local machine, the result is all the requests are directed to my localhost. A very nice feature added in Team System 2008 is the “Parameterize Web Server” button added to my Web Test GUI. Clicking on it will open a new window with one new parameter with the default name of “WebServer1”. We can also see that the “Web Server” parameter is the server that the web test was recorded on. Click OK and see that two things have happened a folder was added...
There are times when you have a part of a scenario that needs to be repeated in other scenarios. There are two options available: Record the steps each time for each of the scenarios. Create a Web Test that includes these scenario steps and embed the Web Test in other web tests. Option 2 is obviously preferable because it saves valuable time, take in account that you are not just recording steps but you also adds roles to it and modify it, wouldn’t you prefer to do that one time only? In Team System...
I have asked by clients that use the Web Test and Load Test how to add more Browsers and Network Types in order to simulate them. First I will start with how can you get to these lists. Step 1: Go to your Test Config file that is located in a solution that contains test projects and open it. Step 2: Go to the Web Test tab This is where you can find the list of “Browser type” and “Network type”. Now lets add a new network, we will call it Demo. Step 1: Go to “Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio...
The answer to this question is defiantly NO!!! All bugs should be managed but not all bugs should be fixed . Many times when I talk with my customers about the way they develop software I hear the wrong concept of fixing all the bugs before the release. So why not to fix all the bugs? An application without bugs is not better than an application with bugs? Well lets start with a very important fact: There are no applications without bugs , there are applications that have unfound bugs . But we still...
A few days ago I went to a customer of mine that wants to produce a higher quality products. The main candidate for the modification was the QA group because the QA group is responsible for the quality in the development process. After a short investigation it was shown that not only the QA team should be modified but all the "players" that take part in the development process of the products should be a part of the change. Some of the conclusion were: better requirements should be written...
I was reading the post on “if Microsoft is so good at testing, why does your software suck?” Written by James Whitaker. I think that his observation is missing a very impotent aspects. I totally agree that Microsoft is under the microscope at all times and there are many users that are using Microsoft's products and I also agree that the products are very complex but in my opinion testing and in the wider picture QA are science and by doing it right you can bring the quality of products no matter...