Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010, Rough Cuts

Description

• Copyright 2011
• Pages: 300
• Edition: 1st

• Rough Cuts
• ISBN-10: 0-13-218062-6
• ISBN-13: 978-0-13-218062-7

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

Use Visual Studio 2010’s Breakthrough Testing Tools to Improve Quality Throughout the Entire Software Lifecycle

Together, Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Test Professional 2010, Lab Management 2010, and Team Foundation Server offer Microsoft developers the most sophisticated, well-integrated testing solution they’ve ever had. Now, Microsoft MVP and VS testing guru Jeff Levinson shows exactly how to use Microsoft’s new tools to save time, reduce costs, and improve quality throughout the entire development lifecycle.

Jeff demonstrates how Microsoft’s new tools can help you finally overcome long-standing communication, coordination, and management challenges. You’ll discover how to perform first-rate functional testing; quickly create and execute tests and record the results with log files and video; and create bugs directly from tests, ensuring reproducibility and eliminating wasted time. Levinson offers in-depth coverage of Microsoft’s powerful new testing metrics, helping you ensure traceability all the way from requirements through finished software.

Coverage includes

•    Planning your tests using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)

•    Creating test settings, structuring test cases, and managing the testing process

•    Executing manual tests with Microsoft Test Manager and Test Runner

•    Filing and resolving bugs, and customizing your bug reporting process

•    Automating test cases and linking automated tests with requirements

•    Executing automated test cases through both Visual Studio and Microsoft Test Manager

•    Integrating automated testing into the build process

•    Using Microsoft’s Lab Management virtualization platform to test applications, snapshot environments, and reproduce bugs

•    Implementing detailed metrics for evaluating quality and identifying improvements

Whether you’re a developer, tester, manager, or analyst, this book can help you significantly improve the way you work and the results you deliver—both as an individual right now, and as a team member throughout your entire project.

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Foreword    xvii

Preface    xxi

Acknowledgments    xxix

About the Author    xxxi

1  State of Testing    1

Software Testing Challenges    1

The Need for Testers    3

A Different Approach    5

Fixing Communication    5

Increasing Project Visibility    6

What Are the Tools Designed to Do?    7

Metrics    10

Citations    12

2  Software Quality and Testing Overview    13

Software Quality    13

Requirements    14

Business Value    14

Expectations    15

Nonfunctional Requirements    15

Where Do You Build Quality?    17

Process and Quality    19

Software Testing    19

The Testing Mindset    20

Software Testing Strategies    21

Types of Software Testing    22

Test Management    27

After the Product Is Shipped or Deployed    27

3  Planning Your Testing    29

Microsoft Test Manager    30

Test Plans    36

Properties    38

Contents    43

Adding Suites and Test Cases to Your Plan    46

Testing Configurations    48

Managing Test Configurations    49

Assigning Test Configurations    51

Assigning Testers    53

Test Case Planning Workflow    55

Analysis and Initial Design    56

Construction    61

User Acceptance Testing    62

Common Scenarios    64

Scheduling and Tracking Test Case Creation and Execution    64

Feature Driven Development    65

Moving from One Iteration to Another    67

Handling Different Test Configurations    68

4  Executing Manual Tests    71

Using the Test Case Work Item Type    72

Shared Steps    75

Data Driven Test Cases (Test Parameters)    77

Running Your First Tests    79

Test Runner    80

Examining Test Results    92

Test Run Results    93

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