The document outlines software quality assurance practices and opportunities to streamline QA processes using Visual Studio 2012. It emphasizes the importance of early tester involvement, automation of build and test environments, and effective bug tracking to enhance software testing efficiency. Additionally, it highlights tools such as Microsoft Test Manager and Visual Studio for managing test planning, execution, and quality metrics.

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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

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