| JTC ^..^ 2006-09-18, 10:06 pm |
| I'm currently trialing Visual Studio Team System. I've nevered used testing
tools before. I'm using VSTS out-of-the-box. The department are looking to
invest in this. At present, I don't test any web applications so for the
most part the walkthroughs and the Microsoft Pitch for VSTS and web testing
is not something I can apply to my role (Something similar for windows
applications would have been great - I here they ran out of time with the
project - now there's something familiar).
My main goal is to speed up the verification and create bugs reports
quickly and consisely. Creating Work Items on the Projects appears the
offer this quite effectively - providing the tests are written well enough.
We are in house development department with 3 developers and myself as the
QA Tester.
As we have only just adopted VSTS, there are no .Net applications I can
test (unless I write my own). Developers a still at experimental stage
themselves. For my own part, I've created plenty of manual tests and
ordered tests for testing a VB6 application (no integration with VSTS) With
a project I've created methods to access the back-end database to verify
data following my Manual Tests. Then, I've created unit tests to Assert the
results of the methods in my project and added those the the relevant parts
of the ordered tests. Crude but I can see the potential for extending this.
As I've never used any kind of tools for testing before, and I can't see
this as a conventional way of using VSTS, is anyone else doing anything
similar? Would anyone like to offer advise, or more importantly, exchange
ideas.
I know the likes of TestPartner and TestComplete will integrated, though
I'm not sure how well or how useful they are. I guess I could trial them.
However, I must understand the capabilities of VSTS out-of-the-box before
convincing my boss to put any investment in those - he's still getting over
the shock of the cost for VSTS and Team Foundation Server. Does anyone know
of any good VSTS plug-ins for QA Testing? Are the Testing Suites out on the
market worth any investment?
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Regards
JTC ^..^
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