Software Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008 Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Types
• Software testing in Visual Studio Team System 2008
• Testing as part of Software Development Life Cycle
• Types of testing
• Unit test
• Manual test
• Web tests
• Load test
• Ordered test
• Generic test
• Test management and new testing features in VS 2008
• Team explorer
• Team system testing tools introduction
• Test view
• Test list editor
• Lists of tests
• Test results
• Code coverage results
• Overview of XML files for testing tools in Visual Studio 2008

• Chapter 2: Unit Testing
• Creating unit tests
• Naming settings
• General settings
• Generated unit test code
• Assert statements
• Types of asserts
• The assert class
• StringAsserts
• CollectionAssert
• AssertFailedException
• UnitTestAssertionException
• ExpectedExceptionAttribute
• Unit tests and generics
• Data-driven unit testing
• Unit testing an ASP.NET application
• Unit testing web services
• Code coverage unit test
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Web Testing
• Creating web test
• Recording a test
• Adding comments
• Cleaning the recorded tests
• Copying the requests
• Web test editor
• Web test properties
• Web test request properties
• Other request properties
• Form post parameters
• Query string parameters
• Extraction rules
• Validation rules
• Transactions
• Toolbar properties
• Add data source
• Set credentials
• Add recording
• Parameterize web server
• Add web test plug-in
• Add request plug-in
• Performance session for the test
• Debug/running web test
• Settings for .testrunconfig file
• General
• Web test
• Controller and agent
• Code coverage
• Test timeouts
• Deployment
• Hosts
• Setup and cleanup scripts
• Running the test
• Web browser
• Request
• Response
• Context
• Details
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Advanced Web Testing
• Dynamic parameters in web testing
• Coded web test
• Creating a coded test from a recorded test
• Transactions in coded test
• Custom code
• Adding comment
• Running the coded web test
• Debugging coded web test
• Custom rules
• Extraction rule
• Validation rule
• Testing web services
• Summary

• Chapter 5: Load Testing
• Creating load test
• Load test wizard
• Specifying scenario
• Editing load tests
• Adding context parameters
• Results store
• Running the load test
• Running load test using rig
• Working with test result and analyzing test results
• Graphical view
• Summary view
• Table view
• Exporting to Excel
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Manual, Generic, and Ordered Tests
• Manual tests
• Manual test using text format
• Manual test using Microsoft Word format
• Running a manual test
• Ordered tests
• Creating an ordered test
• Properties of an ordered test
• Executing an ordered test
• Generic tests
• Creating a generic tests
• Summary results file
• Properties of a generic test
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Managing and Configuring the Test
• Managing tests using test lists
• Organizing test list
• Test view
• Enabling/disabling tests
• Toolbar options
• Filtering tests
• Group By
• Configuring tests
• Test run configuration
• General
• Controller and agent
• Code coverage
• Deployment
• Hosts
• Setup and cleanup scripts
• Test timeouts
• Web test
• Editing test run configuration file
• Test properties
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Deploying and Running Tests
• Local deployment
• Remote deployment
• Deploy additional files
• Using deploymentItem attribute
• Deploy items for individual test
• Deployment order
• Running tests
• Run and rerun a test
• Pause, resume, and stop a test run
• Schedule test run
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Command Line
• MSTest utility
• Running a test from the command line
• /testcontainer
• /testmetadata
• /test
• /unique
• /noisolation
• /runconfig
• /resultsfile
• /noresults
• /nologo
• /detail
• Publishing test results
• /publish
• /publishbuild
• /flavor
• /platform
• /publishresultsfile
• Trace files
• Publishing

• Summary

• Chapter 10: Working with Test Results
• Test results
• Test as part of Team Foundation Server build
• Build report and test result
• Code coverage
• Build report with failed test
• Stack trace
• Creating Work Item from the result
• Publish test results
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Reporting
• TFS reports for testing
• Bugs
• Bug rates
• Bugs by priority
• Bugs found without corresponding tests
• Testing progress and effectiveness of reports
• Regression
• Tests passing with active bugs
• Tests failing without active bugs
• Load test summary
• Creating new report
• Report server project
• Create a new report in Excel
• Customizing report
• Summary

• Index