Professional Software Testing With Visual Studio 2005 Team System

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This book is intended to teach both software developers and testers best practices for software testing using VSTS test tools. The book will focus primarily on best practices, showing readers how to implement these best practices using the appropriate components of VSTS; it will cover all phases of the development lifecycle. About The Author Tom Arnold was a program manager for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System, specifically for the testing tools. He has also managed other commercial testing tools projects by Microsoft and Rational Software and has spoken at such industry conferences as STAR, Microsoft Tech Ed, Internet World, and many others. In addition to two other books on software testing, he has produced three video series on the topic and co-founded a 250-employee software testing company (later sold to Lion bridge / Veritest). Tom is currently a program manager at Microsoft on the OfficeLive.com team. Dominic Hopton is a software development engineer on the Visual Studio Enterprise Test team at Microsoft. One of the original team members, Dominic helped fashion the new development and testing tools in Visual Studio 2005. He is currently working on the next version of testing tools for Visual Studio. Andy Leonard is a SQL Server database developer, MVP, and engineer. He is a co-author of Professional SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. He founded and manages VS Team System Central.com. Andy's experience includes web application architecture and development, VB.NET, ASP, and ASP.NET; SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS); data warehouse development using SQL Server 2000 and 2005; and test-driven database development. Mike Frost is a senior software design engineer in test (i.e., a software tester who mostly writes code) at Microsoft. Over the last 10 years he has worked on several releases of Visual Studio with a focus on the infrastructure and architecture used for testing software. Currently he is working on the new OfficeLive.com service product. Table Of Contents Introduction Introduction to VSTEST and VSTESD A Quick Tour of VSTEST and VSTESD Unit Testing with VSTEST and VSTESD Testing the Database Web Testing Using Manual, Ordered, and Generic Test Types Load Testing Using Code Analysis and Dynamic Analysis VSTEST and VSTESD within the Software Development Appendix Appendix A: Installing Team Explorer Appendix B: Creating and Running a Web Test: A High-Level Walk-Through Appendix C: Creating and Running a Unit Test: A High-Level Walk-Through Appendix D: Creating and Running a Load Test: A High-Level Walk-Through Appendix E: Creating and Running a Manual Test: A High-Level Walk-Through Appendix F: Other Sources of Information Author Sites Blogs Forums Conferences Other Index