This is an overview of the Visual Studio 2012 ALM testing tools, including using Microsoft Test & Lab Manager to manage your testing and using test automation to automate your UI testing. The use of Test Lab will be discussed as a means of automating the creation of virtual environments for testing purposes. Deploying to VM environments during build will be demonstrated and facilitate a robust developer/tester lifecycle. Come join us for this free Live Web Workshop!

1. Streamline Testing with
Visual Studio 2012
Imaginet Resources Corp.
http://www.imaginet.com

2. Agenda
• Software Quality Assurance Practices
• Opportunities to Streamline QA
• Tools in practice
• QA Reporting
• Review

3. Overview
• Software Testing: an investigation conducted to
provide stakeholders with information about the
quality of the software under test.
• Software Quality:
– Functional Quality: how well software complies with a given
design, based on functional requirements or specifications.
– Structural Quality: how well software meets non-functional
requirements (e.g., maintainability).
Credit to Wikipedia for these definitions

4. How do we test?
• Product owner gathers requirements
• Developers write code based on requirements
• Software is built/packaged
• Test environment is prepared
• Testers verify software
• As needed, testers report bugs
• Developers fix bugs
• Testers verify fixes
• Software is declared ready for
production

5. Opportunities?
• Do you have dedicated testers?
• When do your testers start working?
• How do they know what they’re testing?
• How do you prepare the test environment?
• Can you speed up test execution?
• Can you reduce wasted cycles working bugs?
• How do you select the right set of regression tests?
• How do you know it’s ready for production?

6. Streamlining Planning
• Test based on requirements!
– Involved testers early in the process
– Tests are developed along side software
– Tests are ready to run when code is ready to test
– Testers know what they’re testing

7. Streamline Environments
• Automate Build (Compile and Packaging)
– Track specifically what is in the build
• Simplify Test Environment Setup
– Use virtual test environments
– Create environments based on a library of machines
– Deploy environments from a library
– Share environments or not, based on your needs
• Automate Deployment

8. Streamline Testing
• Manual Testing
– Modularize reusable test components
– Automatically replay manual steps
• Regression Testing
– Only re-run tests that are impacted by code changes
• Automatic Testing (where it makes sense)
– Automate manual tests
– Integrate automated tests into builds

9. Streamline Bug Tracking
• Capture ‘Rich bugs’ during testing
Data collection for your test environment during testing makes
it easier for developers to troubleshoot.
• Simplify bug tracing
– Know which bugs are resolved in a build
– Easily verify bug fixes

10. Tools for Streamlining
• Microsoft Test Manager
– Included in Visual Studio 2012 Premium, Ultimate –or-
Visual Studio Test Professional 2010
– Supports streamlining:
• Test Planning
• Test Environments (via Lab Management)
• Manual and Regression Testing
• Exploratory Testing
• Bug Tracking
• Visual Studio 2012 Premium or Ultimate
– Coded UI Tests and other automated tests
• Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server
– Requirements Management
– Automated Build (and Deploy/Test via Lab Management)
– Bug Tracking

11. DEMONSTRATION
• Test Planning
• Test Case Development
• Test Case Execution
• Exploratory Testing
• Bug Tracking
• Test Automation
• Environment Management
• Automated Build/Deploy/Test

12. Quality Dashboards

13. And Reports

14. Summary
• Quality Assurance
– Current State
– Opportunities
• Tools in action
– Test Planning
– Test Case Development
– Test Case Execution
– Exploratory Testing
– Bug Tracking
– Test Automation
– Environment Management
– Automated Build/Deploy/Test
• Tracking and Quality Metrics

15. Questions?

16. Want to know more...?

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