Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012

Satheesh Kumar. N, PMP has Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Engineering and has around fourteen years of experience in software development life cycle, project, and program management. He started his career developing software applications using Borland software products in a company based in India and then moved to the United Arab Emirates and continued developing applications using Borland Delphi and customizing Great Plain Dynamics (now known as Microsoft Dynamics).He moved back to India and spent three years in designing and developing application software using Microsoft products for a top Multinational Company in India and then spent couple of years in Project Management and Program Management activities.Now he works as a Technical Architect at Bangalore for a top retail company based in the United States. He works with the latest Microsoft technologies and has published many articles on LINQ and other features of .NET. He is also the author of the books LINQ Quickly and Software Testing using Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 for Packt Publishing. Subashni.S has Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science Engineering and around ten years of experience in software development and testing life cycle, project, and program management. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Software Test Manager (CSTM). She started her career as DBA in Oracle 8i technology and later developed many software applications using Borland software products for a Multinational company based in India and then moved to Bangalore. She is presently working for a Multinational company in the area of Managing development and testing projects.She is also currently working for one of the top multinational companies headquartered at Austin, Texas.She has also authored Software Testing using Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Software Testing using Visual Studio 2010 for Packt Publishing.

Chapter 1: Visual Studio 2012 Test Types Chapter 2: Test Plan, Test Suite, and Manual Testing Chapter 3: Automated Tests Chapter 4: Unit Testing Chapter 5: Web Performance Test Chapter 6: Advanced Web Testing Chapter 7: Load Testing Chapter 8: Ordered and Generic Tests Chapter 9: Managing and Configuring Tests Chapter 10: The Command Line Chapter 11: Working with Test Results Chapter 12: Exploratory Testing and Reporting Chapter 13: Test and Lab Center Index Preface Up Chapter 1: Visual Studio 2012 Test Types Software testing in Visual Studio 2012 Testing as part of software development life cycle Types of testing Unit testing Manual testing Exploratory testing Web performance tests Coded UI test Load testing Ordered test Generic test Test management in Visual Studio 2012 Introduction to testing tools Test Explorer Code coverage results Microsoft Test Manager Connecting to Team Project Test Plans, Suites, and test cases Defining test cases Lab Center Summary Up Chapter 2: Test Plan, Test Suite, and Manual Testing Test Plan Test Suite and its types Static Test Suites Query-based Test Suites Requirement-based Test Suites Running manual tests Action recording Shared steps and action recording for shared steps Creating shared steps Action recording for shared steps Adding parameters to manual tests Summary Up Chapter 3: Automated Tests Coded UI tests from action recordings Files generated for coded UI test CodedUITest1.cs UIMap.Designer.cs UIMap.cs UiMap.uitest Data-driven coded UI test Adding controls and validation to coded UI test Summary Up Chapter 4: Unit Testing Creating unit tests Assert statements Types of Assert statements Assert StringAsserts CollectionAssert AssertFailedException UnitTestAssertionException ExpectedExceptionAttribute Unit Tests and Generics Data-driven unit testing Unit Testing using Fakes Stubs Shims Difference between Stubs and Shims Code coverage unit test Blocks and lines Excluding elements Summary Up Chapter 5: Web Performance Test Creating the web performance test Recording a test Adding comments Cleaning the recorded tests Copying the requests Adding loops Web performance test editor Web test properties Web test request properties Other request properties Form POST parameters QueryString parameters Extraction rules Validation rules Transactions Conditional rules Toolbar properties Add data source Setting credentials Add recording Parameterize web server Adding a web test plugin Debugging and running the web test Settings in the .testsettings file General Roles Data and Diagnostics Deployment Setup and Cleanup Scripts Hosts Test Timeouts Unit test Web test Running the test Web Browser Request Response Context Details Summary Up Chapter 6: Advanced Web Testing Dynamic parameters in web testing Coded web test Generating code from a recorded test Transactions in coded tests Custom code Adding a comment Running the coded web test Debugging coded web test Custom rules Extraction rules Validation rules Summary Up Chapter 7: Load Testing Creating a Load Test Load Test Wizard Specifying a scenario Counter sets Run settings Editing Load Tests Adding context parameters Storing results in the central result store Running the Load Test Analyzing and exporting Test Results Graphical view Summary view Tables view Detail view Exporting to Microsoft Excel Using Test Controller and Test Agents Test Controller and Test Agent configuration Summary Up Chapter 8: Ordered and Generic Tests Ordered tests Creating an ordered test Executing an ordered test Generic tests Creating a generic test The summary results file Summary Up Chapter 9: Managing and Configuring Tests Using Test settings The General option The Roles option Data and Diagnostics The Deployment section Setup and Cleanup Scripts The Hosts option The Test Timeouts option The Unit Test option Editing the Test Run configuration file The Web Test option Configuring unit tests using the .runsettings file Summary Up Chapter 10: The Command Line VSTest.Console utility Running tests using VSTest.Console The /Tests option The /ListTests option MSTest utility Running a test from the command line The /testcontainer option The /testmetadata option The /test option The /unique option The /noisolation option The /testsettings option The /resultsfile option The /noresults option The /nologo option The /detail option Publishing Test Results The /publish option The /publishbuild option The /flavour option The /platform option The /publishresultsfile option TCM command line utility Importing tests to a Test Plan Running tests in a Test Plan Summary Up Chapter 11: Working with Test Results Test Runs and Test Results Test as part of the Team Foundation Server build Building reports and Test Results Creating a work item from the result Summary Up Chapter 12: Exploratory Testing and Reporting Exploratory testing Reports using Team Foundation Server Bug status report Test case readiness report Status on all iterations Other out-of-the-box reports Creating a report definition using Visual Studio 2012 Summary Up Chapter 13: Test and Lab Center Connecting to Team Project Testing Center Testing Center Plan tab Testing Center Test tab Testing Center Track tab Testing Center Organize tab Lab Center Environments Deployed environments Summary