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Tuesday Jan. 29th, 2008 at the Toronto Association of Systems and Software Quality (TASSQ) meeting join myself and Barry Gervin for an evening presentation on VSTS Edition for Testers . Click the link for details about this presentation including a link
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Microsoft has launched a new community for software testers to share and learn about everything testing. There are and will be videos, articles, and blogs all dealing with software testing. Join the Software Testing Discussion Forum and participate through
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Sean Lumlev from Microsoft has done an excellent job explaining Web Test Correlation and how VS Team System 2008 (Orcas) new helper feature works. Check out Sean’s blog by clicking this link Web Test Correlation and read all about it.
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VS Team System 2008 (Orcas) has improved validation rules. Test-level validation rules allow you to add the same rule to every request by simply clicking the Web test node and selecting Add Validation Rule. A dialog box opens select the validation rule,
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AJAX Requests & JavaScript Pop-ups Currently VSTS 2005 requires an add-in tool called Fiddler to record AJAX requests. If you are not sure what AJAX is watch this video Measuring the Business Value of AJAX . As shown in the video using Fiddler we
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Orcas - Visual Studio Team System 2008 - new features coming for Web and Load testing and a feature of interest to QA in Unit testing. Stay tuned I will be blogging on the list of new features below: Web Testing · Recorder now records AJAX and popups
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Surfing the internet can be mind boggling when searching industry terminology. Try searching terminology for testing that a solution is able to handle its data obligations while conducting itself in a suitable fashion. How do you like those words? Terminology
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I have blogged about testing early, getting your test team involved at the start of the project one item I neglected to include was Load testing. So let’s catch up and talk about when load testing should be done. A lot of projects wait till either UAT
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Every test you create whether it is Unit, Manual, Web or Load can have work items associated to them. If you’re working with the MSF Agile process the work item Scenario is a detailed requirement, a bug is a work item, risk is documented in a work item.
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We've heard of code coverage which is normally used by the developer's to verify how much of the code they've written was tested by their Unit tests. Microsoft took it a step beyond developers and gave the QA the ability to run code coverage against our
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ObjectSharp is now offering a Team System Quality Assurance Best Practices course of which I blogged about a few blogs ago. The course and labs cover the following topics: QA Role in the Software Development Life Cycle Overview of Visual Studio Team System
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Best Practice in any project using any tool is involving the QA Team, the project community at the beginning of the project planning stage. I've blogged about this previously but now I'd like to share how the QA Team can help and what they would be doing.
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What better day to blog then a rainy one, Visual Studio Team Systems Team Explorer is the topic today. What is VSTS Team Explorer about? In my mind I think of it as “The Communicator” . Team Explorer is the central point of Visual Studio Team System projects
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Duration: 3 days Description: This 3 day hands-on class will equip students with the techniques and best practices for using Visual Studio Team Edition for Testers and Team Foundation Server to manage the quality of software within the development life
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As tester’s some of our worst project nightmares are: Forgot to tell you we just made changes to Requirement 439 Here’s a build, What's in it?, I’ve no idea Project is behind, QA has 3 weeks to test That’s not a defect – show me! I could go on but I think
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