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...

את מפגש חודש נובמבר אסור לפספס!!! בחלקו הראשון של המפגש נתמקד בכלי הבדיקות שמגיע עם VS 2010 , Microsoft Test & Lab Managerהמאפשר לבודקים לאסוף נתוני אבחון מפורטים יותר במהלך הבדיקות. נלמד כיצד ניתן לאתר ולאתר תקלות באופן המאפשר תקשורת משופרת בין המפתחים למתכנתים בפרויקט, נציג כיצד בודקים יכולים ליצור בדיקות אוטומטיות בצורה קלה ופשוטה. בחלקו השני של המפגש נראה את הפתרון לניהול סביבת בדיקות בעזרת וירטואליזציה הישר מתוך Microsoft Test & Lab Manager, בנוסף, נסקור את : Test Impact Analysis, Historical...

Hi all, Today I saw a very strange thing. I have a project that involves several teams, some of them work with Visual Studio 2005 and others with Visual studio 2008. There is a sln file for each version (2005 and 2008). There are also Unit Tests for each solution. I have tried to check the trx files (they should hold a report on the results after the build). To my surprise when I tried to check the Unit Tests that failed there were no details. After scratching my head for a while and some experiments...

According to Ed Glass from Microsoft Visual Studio Team Test Team posted about new VSTT Quick Reference Guide 1.0 . According to Ed: “This is a comprehensive collection of technical information on VSTT –- 83 pages of information!!! Many questions you may have on how stuff works in web, load, and unit test are answered in this doc. This doc is a must have for anyone working in VSTT. ” You can download it here . var dzone_url = 'http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/kolbis/archive/2009/03/31/what...

Have you ever thought of selling your test cases? I am pretty sure that most of you have not. This is not surprising because usually the Test Cases are written for internal usage and thus are not in such a quality that will allow you to "sell" them or even to "reuse" them internally, right? Have you ever thought why nobody sells them? I believe that there are several reasons, here are two of them: Never thought about Test Cases as an assets. The code is purely designed and implemented...

James Whittaker say that testing is Hard and I quote: “Software testing is complicated by an overload of variation possibilities from inputs and code paths to state, stored data and the operational environment. Indeed, whether one chooses to address this variation in advance of any testing by writing test plans or by an exploratory approach that allows planning and testing to be interleaved, it is an impossible task. No matter how you ultimately do testing, it’s simply too complex to do it completely...

Intro Last week I had the chance to meet Shay Mandel from Microsoft India. Shay is a program manager on the lab management team. Lab management was declared during the the PDC. In this posts I will try and give a small review of this product, so if you heard about it, you might learn more and if you did not this can be a good reference for you to understand what it is all about. What is a Lab? A lab consists of at least one machine and potentially can reach up to 2,3,4 or even 100. Each machine configuration...