Testing

IMPORTANT! Moles is now the Fakes Framework in Visual Studio 11. Learn more at http://aka.ms/vs11-fakes. Nikolai Tillman, a member of the RiSE group at Microsoft Research, gives a short demo of Moles, a new framework that allows replacing any .NET method with a delegate. In the context of…

Internet Explorer, like all applications released by Microsoft and other software companies, undergoes immense amounts of rigorous testing before being released in the wild. Given the nature of what IE does (compute, calculate, and render random HTML strings into a coherent pixel mesh that…

In this episode of 10-4 we look at a new type of test coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 known as the coded UI test. Coded UI tests can be created to automatically navigate through your application's UI, which in turn can be used to verify that the paths your users might…

Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux give a short tutorial on Pex, an automated white box testing tool for .Net. The tutorial is a pair-programming session where they show us how to get started with Pex in Visual Studio, starting from an (untested) piece of C# code: how to use…

The Multilingual App Toolkit can help you develop International apps that can reach a broader set of markets. Pseudo-localization will allow you to test the internationalization aspects of your app before you may incur costly translations. Through pseudo-localization, the Multilingual App…

Anu Arora is a Principal SDET(very senior level) with the Engineering Excellence team. As a part of the Software Test Engineering Excellence team, she is chartered with helping everyone in the testing discipline at Microsoft get better through training and consulting. With a passion for…

Are you tired of constantly setting breakpoints to hone in on a pesky bug? How would you like to be able to step "back in time" through your debugger? The Historical Debugger in Visual Studio Team System 2010 promises to revolutionize your debugging experience. Habib Heydarian takes us…

Ever wonder how the Reactive Extensions get tested? Jeffrey Van Gogh gives a glimpse at how they do it. The Rx developers have been using Pex and writing parameterized unit tests. In this video, we look at Enumerable.Zip and how we can use Pex to help testing it.Jeffrey also…

Are you tired of spending hours trying to reproduce and diagnose bugs? Do you have a hard time getting testers and developers to talk to each other? Is it difficult to determine which tests are most important to run after you produce a new build? If so, then this session is for you! Software…

Suneetha Dhulipalla has been at Microsoft for 10 years, and is currently a test lead in the Global Experience Platform (GXP) group under the Office Shared Services (OSS) division.  She and her team are responsible for developing engineering infrastructure and process that will help ship a…