Software Testing using Visual Studio 2010

Table of Contents

• Preface

• Chapter 1: Visual Studio 2010 Test Types
• Software testing in Visual Studio 2010
• Testing as part of the Software Development Life Cycle
• Types of testing
• Unit test
• Manual test
• Web Performance Tests
• Coded UI test
• Load Test
• Ordered test
• Generic test
• Test management in VS 2010
• Team Explorer
• Testing tools introduction
• Test View
• Test List Editor
• Test Results
• Code coverage results
• Overview of files used for test settings and testing in Visual Studio 2010
• Microsoft Test Manager
• Connecting to Team Project
• Test Plans, Suites and Test Cases
• Define test cases
• Lab Center
• Summary

• Chapter 2: Test Plan, Test Suite, and Manual Testing
• Test Plan
• Test Suite and Test Suite Types
• Requirement-based Test Suite
• Query-based Test Suite
• Static Test Suite
• Run Manual Tests
• Action Recording
• Shared steps and action recording for shared steps
• Creating shared steps
• Action recording for Shared steps
• Add Parameters to Manual Tests
• Summary

• Chapter 3: Automated Tests
• Coded UI Test from Action Recording
• Files generated for the Coded UI Test
• CodedUITest1.cs
• UIMap.Designer.cs
• UIMap.cs
• UIMap.uitest
• Data Driven Coded UI Test
• Adding controls and validation to the Coded UI Test
• Summary

• Chapter 4: Unit Testing
• Creating unit tests
• Naming settings
• General settings
• Generated unit test code
• Assert statements
• Types of asserts
• Assert
• 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 5: Web Performance Testing
• Creating Web Performance Test
• Recording a test
• Adding comments
• Cleaning the Recorded Tests
• Copying the requests
• Web Performance Test editor
• Web Test Properties
• Web Performance Test request properties
• Other request properties
• Form POST parameters
• QueryString 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 Performance Test
• Settings in the .testsettings file
• General
• Web Performance Test
• Roles
• Test Timeouts
• Deployment
• Hosts
• Setup and Cleanup scripts
• Running the test
• Web Browser
• Request
• Response
• Context
• Details
• Summary

• Chapter 6: Advanced Web Testing
• Dynamic parameters in Web Performance Testing
• Coded Web Performance Test
• Creating a coded test from a recorded test
• Transactions in coded test
• Custom code
• Adding comment
• Running the Coded Web Performance Test
• Debugging the Coded Web Performance Test
• Custom rules
• Extraction rule
• Validation rules
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Load Testing
• Creating Load Test
• Load Test Wizard
• Specifying a scenario
• Editing Load Tests
• Adding context parameters
• Results store
• Running the Load Test
• Working with the test result and analyzing test results
• Graphical view
• Summary view
• Table view
• Details view
• Exporting to Excel
• Using the test controller and test agents
• Test controller configuration
• Summary

• Chapter 8: Ordered and Generic Tests
• Ordered tests
• Creating an ordered test
• Properties of an ordered test
• Executing an ordered test
• Generic tests
• Creating a Generic Test
• Summary results file
• Properties of a generic test
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Managing and Configuring a Test
• Managing tests using Test Lists
• Organizing the Test Lists
• Test view
• Enabling/Disabling tests
• Toolbar options
• Filtering tests
• Group by
• Configuring tests
• Test settings
• General
• Roles
• Data and Diagnostics
• Deployment
• Hosts
• Setup and Cleanup scripts
• Test Timeouts
• Web Performance Test
• Unit Test
• Editing the test run configuration file
• Test properties
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Command Line
• MSTest utility
• Running a test from the command line
• /testcontainer
• /testmetadata
• /test
• /unique
• /noisolation
• /testsettings
• /resultsfile
• /noresults
• /nologo
• /detail
• Publishing test results
• /publish
• /publishbuild
• /flavor
• /platform
• /publishresultsfile
• Trace files
• Publishing
• Step 1: Create/use existing test project
• Step 2: Running the test
• Step 3: Create build
• Step 4: Build project
• Step 5: Publish result
• Summary

• Chapter 11: Working with Test Results
• Test Results
• Test as part of Team Foundation Server Build
• Build Report and Test Result
• Creating Work Item from the result
• Publish Test Results
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Reporting
• Team Foundation Server reports for testing
• Bug status Report
• Status on all iterations
• Other out of box reports
• Creating client report definition using Visual Studio 2010
• SQL Server Business Intelligence Project
• Analysis Services Project
• Report server project
• Create new Report using Microsoft Excel
• Summary

• Chapter 13: Test and Lab Center
• Connect to Team Project
• Testing Center
• Testing Center — Plan
• Testing Center — Test
• Test Center — Track
• Test Center — Organize
• Lab Center
• Virtual Environments
• Deployed Environments
• Stored Templates
• Stored Virtual Machines
• Environments
• Summary

• Index