Scrum in the Enterprise and Process Customization with Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
Published February 16th, 2010 Under Project Management | Leave a Comment
Scrum for Team System v3 significantly evolves the leading Scrum process template by leveraging the capabilities of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server (TFS 2010) to enhance the support for Agile best practices. Hear how a large customer extended its process model, supports its enterprise scale Scrum projects and Acceptance Driven Development. Additionally, learn how the template takes advantage of the new hierarchical work item capabilities, integrates with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager and supports the new deployment topologies for TFS 2010.
How Do I Refactor my Code in Visual Studio?
Published January 14th, 2010 Under Coding | Leave a Comment
These two videos show how to use the refactoring tools in Visual Studio.
10-4 Episode 18: Functional UI Testing
Published September 1st, 2009 Under Software Testing | Leave a Comment
In this episode of 10-4 we look at a new type of test coming in Visual Studio Team System 2010 known as the coded UI test. Coded UI tests can be created to automatically navigate through your application’s UI, which in turn can be used to verify that the paths your users might take through your application are working properly. You can also add validation logic along the way to verify the properties of objects within the UI. Much like unit tests can quickly surface regressions on a method or function level, coded UI tests can bring the same level of rapid automated testing capabilities to the UI layer.This demo is based on an early build of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1.
For some relevant team blogs check out:
Amit Chatterjee’s Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/amit_chatterjee/
Mathew Aniyan’s Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/mathew_aniyan/
Getting started with Pex in Visual Studio 2008
Published August 24th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
Nikolai Tillmann and Peli de Halleux give a short tutorial on Pex, an automated white box testing tool for .Net. The tutorial is a pair-programming session where they show us how to get started with Pex in Visual Studio, starting from an (untested) piece of C# code:
* how to use Pex to explore the behavior of any method in your code,
* how to save the exploration results into a unit test suite,
* how to improve the generated parameterized unit tests to leverage Pex code exploration engine.
If you want to follow up the steps on your machine as well,
* Download Pex from DevLabs
* Download the code example
* Ask your questions in the forum
Pex – Automated Exploratory Testing for .NET
Published August 21st, 2009 Under Open Source Tools, Software Testing | Leave a Comment
Pex is a white-box test generation tool for .NET. Starting from a hand-written parameterized unit test, Pex analyzes the program-under-test to determine relevant test inputs fully automatically. To this end, Pex executes the program multiple times with different inputs while monitoring the taken execution paths. Pex uses a constraint solver to determine new test inputs that will exercise different execution paths. As a side effect, Pex may find errors in the program. The result is a traditional unit test suite with high code coverage. In addition, Pex suggests to the programmer how to fix certain errors. Pex is integrated into Microsoft Visual Studio.
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