Software Testing

Happy Holidays to all of you out there who are in some sort of holiday state. If not, then happy holidays anyway from Diego, Charles, C9, and VC We don't cover software testing—the job discipline—often enough on C9. We aim to change that starting now.A friend of Diego's on the VC++ team,…

In this video good friend Amit Chopra interviews our Test Manager Dinesh Bhat on how the MIcrosoft Test and Lab Management Team uses Microsoft Test Professional 2010.

One of the biggest challenges around test automation is identifying good candidates for the same. You may also wonder about the “in-between” cases. This video will step through these concepts and introduces you to “coded UI tests” as well as “Fast Forward for Manual Testing” as part of Visual…

Test scenarios? Requirements? Configurations? Environments? Regression Testing? Data Collection? These are just some common questions asked during Test Planning. A good test plan can help not only answering these questions but also guide the entire testing process and optimize your test workflow…

Test Cases are just one work item type in Team Foundation Server. In this video, you will learn about authoring test cases and running tests using Microsoft Test Manager, as well as additional concepts such as rich, actionable bugs, test impact analysis, and exploratory Testing.

Over the past decade, the complexity of technology has increased rapidly even as business demands continue to rise. Unfortunately, test organizations have changed very little in either processes or tools, and many testers continue to pursue UI automation with little to no return on investment. To…

Today at TechEd Barcelona, Jason Zander announced that Visual Studio Team System 2010 will feature a brand new Lab Management capability to help organizations raise the bar on software quality. Lab Management will integrate with the rest of the Visual Studio to help testers more easily test a…

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…

Naysawn Naderi takes us through manual testing in Visual Studio Team System 2010. Naysawn shows off how the manual testing capabilities allow not only for better authoring and execution of manual tests, but can also be a tool to help automate portions of manual tests as well. Finally, Naysawn…

I sat down with James Whittaker, software testing pundit and principal architect for Visual Studio Team System's testing capabilities, to learn more about the software quality tools coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010.The last time we saw James he wasn't allowed to say anything about this…