Among one of the many exciting changes released by Microsoft last week was TFS 2013 Update 4. This update includes new lightweight charts that you can access from the Test hub of the TFS Web Portal. The reports provide you with snapshot and trend charts for test cases and test results. Just like other […]
Today, Pluralsight released my course on Microsoft Test Manager 2013. I’m very excited and proud of this course, many of you probably learned about MTM with my MTM 2012 course, which was released last year. This course takes you through all the previously-found features and it includes all the new features found in 2013, including […]
Typically, if you want to bulk-edit TFS work items, you would use the Excel add-in that is installed when you install Team Explorer (or as part of Visual Studio). This is not possible for test cases and their related test steps. If you are using TFS 2013 or Visual Studio Online, you are able to […]
Microsoft Test Manager was introduced along with TFS 2010. MTM provides testers with the ability to create, manage, and execute Test Plan and Test Cases while collaborating with the entire team through TFS’s Work Items. TFS 2013 and Visual Studio Online gives you the ability to access these test plans and test cases from the […]
My Pluralsight course on Microsoft Test Manager 2012 is now live! The course takes you through Microsoft Test Manager, which is a tool primarily used by software testers to perform system testing by creating, managing, and executing test cases. The course takes you through the steps needed to: Configure MTM to gather diagnostic data while […]
Today I’m presenting a webinar on Microsoft Test Manager: From Manual Testing to Full Automation with Visual Studio ALM. I also presented it a couple of weeks ago and it got some very good reviews. We will cover the following:– Create a test plan and test cases– Create an action recording for a test case– […]
Today at 1 pm (Eastern) I am doing a Microsoft Webcast on Microsoft Test Manager, it is titled “From Manual Testing to Full Automation with Visual Studio ALM”. Here is the description: Microsoft Test Manager helps testers define and execute system test cases. These tests can be executed as exploratory and scripted test cases and […]
TFS 2012 Update 2 introduces the new Web-based Test Case interface. That’s right, a lot of the goodness found in Microsoft Test Manager is now available on your web browser. This means that you can now execute test cases on a machine that doesn’t have MTM installed on it. There are a few scenarios where […]
If you are using Microsoft Test Manager on a Team Project that was created prior to TFS 2010 (and was later upgraded to 2010), or you built your own process template, you will need to use the TCM tool to enable the automatic creation of a work item when a test finds a bug through […]
If you use Microsoft Test Manager, you *have to* install Test Scribe! It is a documentation power tool that integrates direction into MTM and allows you to create a Word document based on your Test Plans and you Test Runs. This is a great way to report test progress, create User Acceptance Testing documents, or […]