Team Foundation Server 2010 for QA Professionals 


  • COURSE NO: 5340 
  • DURATION: 3  DAYS
  • PRICE: $1,995.00 

 

 

What it's about

The introduction of Team Foundation Server brought many testing practices into the mainstream of development. While TFS includes a lot of existing ideas from the quality assurance world, it also introduces some new processes and tools aimed at making the life of a QA professional easier. This course provides the techniques and best practices for TFS and Test & Lab Manager to assure quality within the application development lifecycle. Attendees will learn about work items, builds, version control, managing tests, code coverage, executing test runs, defect management, and reporting. Also covered are best practices related to analyzing requirements, understanding the best testing approach, authoring effective tests automated and manual) and integration of the quality assurance role within the larger development team.

 

 

What you will learn

 

 

Course outline

Day 1

1. Testing Manager Overview

    Lab:
  • Open a test plan
  • View test suites with test cases
  • Query all test cases
  • Look at all defined test plans

2. Test Cases

    Lab:
  • Create test Case
  • Create Shared Steps
  • Add Steps to test case
  • Add Insert Parameters
  • Add Step Attachments

3. Test Plans

    Lab:
  • Create a new Test Plan
  • Add a test suite
  • Test Settings
  • Test Environment
  • Assign a Build to the test plan
  • Check recommended tests

4. Executing the Test Plan

    Lab:
  • Start a test run
  • Create action recording
  • Select the test case to execute
  • Validate steps
  • Add attachments to test and step results
  • Capture screen shot
  • Raise a bug
  • End the test
  • Analyze results
Day 2

1. Web Load Testing

    Lab:
  • Record Web tests
  • Order tests
  • Create and execute Load test

2. Bug Tracking

    Lab:
  • Raise and respond to bugs
  • Create Queries for bugs

3. Coded UI Tests

    Lab:
  • Create a Coded UI Test from scratch
  • Create a Coded UI Test from an action recording
  • Execute automated tests

4. What else you should know

    Lab:
  • Check test projects into source control
  • Look over unit tests

 

Who should attend

Quality Assurance and Testing professionals who are intending to use Team Foundation Server for managing the quality of application development projects. TFS can be used for testing software built on any application development platform.

 

 

Materials

The course content is a combination of lectures, slides, hands-on labs, practical demos and commentary from instructors who have been through the process of creating commercial grade applications.

 

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"I'm really impressed with the instructor and particularly appreciate his style of teaching. Instead of sticking to "do-by-example" traditional style of teaching, he spent time laying the architectural foundation so that we can appreciate examples in-depth rather than superficially."

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 Instructor

Debra ForsythDebra is a Senior QA Consultant. She is proficient in the design of comprehensive QA processes/procedures, with proven qualifications in test life cycle, strategy/plan, case/data design, risk assessment, functional/performance automated tools implementation, environment set up, defect and configuration management.


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