Test Edition

Test Edition
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Visual Studio Team System

Test Edition

Visual Studio Team System Test Edition includes a suite of test tools that are integrated closely with Visual Studio; they work not only in their own testing framework, but also within a larger framework of software life cycle tools.

Test Edition lets you create, manage, edit, and run tests, and also obtain and store test results. Several test types, including unit, Web, load, and manual tests, are integrated into Visual Studio. In addition, the measurement of code coverage is included. To learn more about the different available test types, see Selecting a Test Type.

You run tests by using the Visual Studio IDE. Additionally, you can run groups of tests or any single test other than the manual test type from a command line.

Because the testing tools are integrated with the other parts of the Visual Studio Team System, you can publish results to a database, generate trend and historical reports, compare different kinds of data, and see how many and which bugs were found because of testing.

In This Section

Getting Started with Team System Testing Tools: Provides links that take you on a tour through the tools and windows of Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition.
Testing Tools Tasks: Provides links that describe the tasks involved in working with various kinds of tests.
Test Types: Provides links to descriptions of several test types that you can use for your specific software testing purposes.
Controllers, Agents, and Rigs: Provides links to information about how to set up and administer computers for running tests remotely and for generating simulated test loads.

Related Sections

Team Foundation: Provides links to topics that discuss an extensible team collaboration server that enables all members of the extended IT team to manage and track the progress and health of projects.
Architecture Edition: Provides links to topics that discuss visual designers that enable architects, operations managers, and developers to design service-oriented solutions that can be validated against their operational environments.
Development Edition: Provides links to topics that discuss advanced development tools that enable teams to build reliable, mission-critical services and applications.
Testing Tools for Smart Device Projects: Provides links to topics that discuss testing tools for smart device applications.

Community Content

Microsoft Tester Center at MSDN

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The Microsoft Tester Center showcases the test discipline as an integral part of the application lifecycle, describes test roles and responsibilities, and promotes the test investments required to deliver high-quality software.

Visit Microsoft Center at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/testing/default.aspx

The aim of the Microsoft Tester Center is to provide a place for software testers to share their experiences and best practices, and to shed some light on how we do software testing at Microsoft. Testers from across Microsoft have contributed content for this site, and the first couple of articles are now available in the MSDN Library:

Best Practices: Code Reviews at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb871031.aspx
Life-Cycle Performance Testing for Eliminating Last-Minute Surprises at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb871031.aspx

Visual Studio Team System embraces the entire software development team. Software testers are one of the key benefactors of this expansion in the Visual Studio product line. While Team System provides the tools software testers need to be successful, this site will help provide some of the knowledge testers need to make the best use of those tools and to cultivate the software testing community.

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