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Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012

By : Subashni. S, Satheesh Kumar. N
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Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012

By: Subashni. S, Satheesh Kumar. N

Overview of this book

<p>Testing is one of the main phases in the software development lifecycle. Managing the test scenarios, test cases, defects, and linking each one of these is bit of a challenge without using any tools. For frequently changing businesses, it is essential to address testing requirements by matching the pace of the business. This can only be achieved through automation of the possible testing scenarios to reduce the turnaround time of testing.</p> <p>Software Testing Using Visual Studio 2012 is a practical, hands-on guide that provides a number of clear, step-by-step exercises, which will help you to take advantage of the new features and real power of Visual Studio 2012.</p> <p>Software Testing Using Visual Studio 2012 starts with the basics of testing types and managing the tests using Test Explorer and a few other tools. Practical examples are added to help you understand the usage of various tools and features in a better way. Software Testing Using Visual Studio 2012 is written from a developer point of view and helps you take advantage of the unit testing features and customize the tests by generating the code and fine-tuning it as per your needs. The Test Manager is a standalone tool which is part of the Visual Studio tools family and takes care of test management. Software Testing Using Visual Studio 201 covers the usage of the test plan, test suite, manual testing, and exploratory testing using Test Manger and managing these aspects using these tools.</p> <p>Software Testing Using Visual Studio 2012 also covers the recording of user actions and creating automated tests out of it. This book covers generating and adding parameters to the recording and replacing it at runtime, adding validation and extraction rules to the tests, running the tests using command line commands, looking at the details of test results, and configuring the running the load test out of web performance or unit tests.</p> <p>This book helps you to understand the complete testing features and how to make use of automation features as well. It will appeal to both developers and testers.</p>

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Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012
Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Visual Studio 2012 Test Types
Visual Studio 2012 Test Types
Software testing in Visual Studio 2012
Testing as part of software development life cycle
Types of testing
Test management in Visual Studio 2012
Microsoft Test Manager
Summary
2
Test Plan, Test Suite, and Manual Testing
Test Plan, Test Suite, and Manual Testing
Test Plan
Test Suite and its types
Running manual tests
Shared steps and action recording for shared steps
Adding parameters to manual tests
Summary
3
Automated Tests
Automated Tests
Coded UI tests from action recordings
Summary
4
Unit Testing
Unit Testing
Creating unit tests
Assert statements
Unit Tests and Generics
Data-driven unit testing
Unit Testing using Fakes
Code coverage unit test
Summary
5
Web Performance Test
Web Performance Test
Creating the web performance test
Web performance test editor
Debugging and running the web test
Summary
6
Advanced Web Testing
Advanced Web Testing
Dynamic parameters in web testing
Coded web test
Debugging coded web test
Custom rules
Summary
7
Load Testing
Load Testing
Creating a Load Test
Summary
8
Ordered and Generic Tests
Ordered and Generic Tests
Ordered tests
Generic tests
Summary
9
Managing and Configuring Tests
Managing and Configuring Tests
Using Test settings
Summary
10
The Command Line
The Command Line
VSTest.Console utility
MSTest utility
Summary
11
Working with Test Results
Working with Test Results
Test Runs and Test Results
Summary
12
Exploratory Testing and Reporting
Exploratory Testing and Reporting
Exploratory testing
Reports using Team Foundation Server
Creating a report definition using Visual Studio 2012
Summary
13
Test and Lab Center
Test and Lab Center
Connecting to Team Project
Testing Center
Lab Center
Summary
Index
Index

Software testing in Visual Studio 2012

Before getting into the details of how to perform testing using Visual Studio 2012, let us familiarize different tools provided by Visual Studio 2012 and its usage. Visual Studio provides tools for testing as well as test management such as the Test List Editor and the Test View. The Test Projects and the actual test files are maintained in Team Foundation Server (TFS) for managing the version control of the source and history of changes.

The other aspect of this chapter is exploring the different file types generated in Visual Studio during testing. Most of these files are in the XML format, which are created automatically whenever a new test is created.

For readers new to Visual Studio, there is a brief overview on each window we are going to deal with throughout all or most of the chapters in this book. While we go through the windows and their purposes, we can check the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and the tools integration with Visual Studio 2012.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 has different editions tailored to the needs. You need to have the respective edition as prerequisite to use any of the testing features explained in this book. The following table shows supported edition of Visual Studio 2012 for the testing features.

Testing features

Ultimate with MSDN

Premium with MSDN

Test Professional with MSDN

Professional with MSDN

Professional

Unit testing

Yes

Yes

 

Yes

Yes

Coded UI test

Yes

Yes

   

Code coverage

Yes

Yes

   

Manual testing

Yes

Yes

Yes

  

Exploratory testing

Yes

Yes

Yes

  

Test case management

Yes

Yes

Yes

  

Web performance testing

Yes

    

Load testing

Yes

    

Lab management

Yes

Yes

Yes

  

Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (MTM) is a standalone product from Microsoft, which integrates with Team Foundation Server for test management. MTM is used in creating and managing multiple Test Plans, cloning Test Plans, creating Test Suites, creating manual test steps and test cases, and maintaining the same. MTM also provides various reports for Test Plan results. In 2012 version, MTM has the new feature of exploratory testing, maintaining records, and test steps during exploratory testing.

Lab environments can be created in MTM using the controller and agents. This is required when running load tests with multiple agents.

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