1. VSTS 2010 for Testers

2. Agenda
• Introduction - Visual Studio 2010 for test
• Details - Test Types
• Details - Load Test
• Details - Web Test
• Details - Test Manager

3. Microsoft Strategy
• Create one-stop solution for product
development and test life cycles.
• Design test tools for Test plan, test
management, defects tracking and analyzing
with just one tool - Visual Studio.
• Capture the lucrative market of test tools
which is dominated by IBM and HP.

4. Visual Studio Test Editions
• Following editions of Visual studio contains
“Test” related features.
– VS Test Professional 2010
– VS Ultimate 2010
• Both the editions contain a separate test
management tool called as “Microsoft Test
Manager” used for managing test plan, test
cases, test labs etc.

5. Supported Test Types
• Unit Test
• Record-Playback Test (using Coded-UI)
• Load Test
• Web Performance Test
• Database Unit Test

6. Test Flow
• Create Test Plan linking to requirements.
• Create Test Suites as per requirement
modules.
• Create and Manage Tests.
• Run Test Cases and Submit Results.
• Log Bugs/Defects.
• Track test deliverables – Bugs, Test case
execution report, Automation report tc.

7. Web Performance Testing
• To find out performance of the web page
under different load conditions.
• Define baseline for accepted server loads
under given conditions.
• Determine compliance with requirements.
• Improve overall quality of web application
under test.

8. (contd.)
• Performance of web application is found by
creating
1. Web Test
- Series of test sequence actions to be performed on
the web site
2. Load Test
- Bunching of Web tests adhering to business
scenarios to carry out performance analysis at
different loads.

9. Performance test flow
• Identify Test Environment and acceptance
criteria.
• Create a web performance test for the web
application under test. This test will then be
used during load testing.
• Create Load test for the specified load
conditions – virtual users, load type, test
distribution, step increments etc.

10. (contd.)
• Configure Test Environments for the tests to
be run.
• Implement Test Design and execute the tests.
• Analyze and Report load test results.
Reprioritize and retest for verifying
performance adherence of each part of web
application under test.

11. Web Test
• Consists of series of HTTP requests which are
captured while recording the test.
• Simulate Javascript at runtime by using Web
test plug-ins, Web test request plug-
ins, extraction rules, or coded Web tests.
• Can be used for functional, data-
driven, performance testing purposes.
• Records request in the order it is been
captured during test formation.

12. (contd.)
• Cannot capture client-server data interchange,
this means Javascript, images and CSS are not
recorded during test.
• However can withstand the above request
while playback using the promotion of
dynamic parameters.

13. Web Test Tasks
• Record a Web Test.
• Add Extraction, Validation rules to it.
• Create Request and Web Test Plug-Ins.
• Create Coded Web Test
• Execute Web Test.

14. Web test hiccups
• HTTP request errors
• Extraction and validation rule errors
• Test level, Request level exceptions
• Dependent request expired
• Page content modified
• One time user data
• Javascript redirects (windows.location)

15. Load Test
• To evaluate the performance of application
under test under the specified load conditions
within limits.
• Test Types included for load test
– Web Performance Test
– Unit Test

16. Load Test Tasks
• Configure Test Controller and Test agents.
• Configure load test database.
• Identify the load test scenario.
• Specify the counter sets to capture specific
test parameters.
• Configure load test run settings.
• Run load tests and Analyze test results.

17. Load Test Considerations
• Determine acceptance criteria
– Response Time
– Throughput
– Resource utilization
– Maximum user load
• Identify Business scenarios
• Create workload model

18. (contd.)
• Find Load distribution pattern
– Constant
– Step
– Goal-based
• Identify Metrics
– Connection type
– Sample rate
– Think time

19. Load Test Wizard
• Run load test wizard
• Specify new load test scenario.
• Specify initial load patterns.
• Specify Test Mix model
• Specify Test Mix
• Specify Network Mix
• Specify Browser Mix

20. (contd.)
• Configure test computers.
• Configure Counter sets on each computer.
• Specify Initial run settings.
• Optional – Add additional run settings.
• Modify Run settings.

21. Analyze Load Test Results
• Using load test editor - Add threshold rule to
the load test.
• Using Load Test Analyzer - Enable threshold
violation to graphs.
• Calculate response time.
• Calculate deviation from SLA time.

22. Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
• New product shipped with VSTS 2010.
• Developed on WPF.
• Used for the test management activities like
creating test plans, test suites, test
configurations, test cases, test steps etc.
• Also useful in diagnosing test data impact,
automation test runs, effort planning.

23. MTM tasks
• Create Test Plan
• Create test suites
• Create/add test cases.
• Test effort distribution
• Assign test cases to testers
• Create/add machine configurations.
• Assign automated tests

24. (contd.)
• Assign build definitions.
• Run manual and automated tests.
• Associates bugs to test cases
• Analyze test results.
• Create Exploratory testing scenarios.
• Perform Exploratory testing.

25. MTM for manual tests
• Connect to Team Project Site
• Create Test Plan
• Add details to Test Plan
• Add test cases
• Run tests manually
• Log bugs and associate them with the testcase
• Keep tap on the test progress

26. MTM for automated tests
• Connect to Team Project Site
• Create Test Plan
• Add details to Test Plan
• Create automated (Unit/Coded-UI) test cases
using VSTS 2010.
• Add project to TFS
• Generate a build.

27. (contd.)
• Queue this build
• Associate the automated test cases with the
manual test cases already present in test plan.
• Add build definition to test plan.
• Run automated tests.
• Analyze test results.