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Software Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008

By : N Satheesh Kumar, Subashni. S
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Software Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008

By: N Satheesh Kumar, Subashni. S

Overview of this book

<p>We all know that software testing is the most important part of the Software development life cycle and the quality of the end product is mostly dependent on how well we test our products. But, testing is neither an easy process nor remotely exciting for all the developers.<br /><br />For testing your applications on the Microsoft platform, Visual Studio Team System 2008 offers you a range of powerful tools for different types of testing. This Microsoft product makes the testing process easier as well as more exciting, not boring anymore.<br /><br />This concise guide will lead you through the bewildering range of features offered by Visual Studio Team System 2008 to test your software applications before going live. It is packed with simple examples and screenshots to get you comfortable with the VS Team System 2008 testing environment.<br /><br />The book introduces you to the main types of testing available in VS Team System 2008 for both desktop and web applications, and then walks you through deploying, running, and interpreting the results of tests. If you've been testing applications in Visual Studio 2005, the book will show you how you can move this easily to Visual Studio 2008.<br /><br />You will learn about the Unit test, Manual test, Web test, Load test, Ordered test, and Generic test, and the support for them in VS Team System 2008. By the end of the book you will be using the tools to manage and run your tests, collect and analyze your test results, and improve the reliability of your software applications.<br /><br />Later, you will prepare reports to monitor the quality of your software applications, using the available reporting templates in Visual Studio 2008 Team system and Team Foundation Server.</p>
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Software Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008
Credits
About the Authors
Preface
10
Working with Test Results

About the Authors

Subashni.S, holds a Bachelors Degree in Computer Science Engineering and has around 10 years of experience in software development and testing life cycle, project, and program management. She is a certified PMP (Project Management Professional) and CSTM (Certified Software Test Manager). She started her career as DBA in Oracle 8i technology and later developed many software applications using Borland software products for a multinational company based in Chennai, India and then moved to Bangalore, India. She is presently working for a multinational company in the area of Project Management for developing and testing projects. Currently working for one of the top multinational companies headquartered at Dallas, Texas and placed at a MNC client in Austin, Texas.

N. Satheesh Kumar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering and has around 12 years of experience in software development life cycle, project, and program management. He started his career developing software applications using Borland software products in a company based in India. He then moved to the UAE where he continued developing applications using Borland Delphi and customizing Great Plain Dynamics (now known as Microsoft Dynamics) for an automobile sales company. He later moved to India again, spending three years in designing and developing application software using Microsoft products for a top multinational company. A couple of years were also spent in Project Management and Program Management activities. Now he works as a Technical Architect for a top retail company based in the United States. He works with the latest Microsoft technologies and has published many articles on LINQ and other features of .NET. He has also authored LINQ Quickly for Packt Publishing.