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Testing for Continuous Delivery

The Microsoft Patterns & Practices team released a new document about ‘Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 RC’.

“This guide describes how testing has been changing over the years and how the testing infrastructure you can build with Visual Studio 2012 RC will help you achieve continuous delivery of your software projects. This guide provides an end-to-end walkthrough of the testing scenarios supported by the Visual Studio 2012 RC infrastructure. It will help testers and developers use Team Foundation Server effectively as an application lifecycle management solution for testing and supporting products.

This guide helps you

  • Understand how testing is changing with the new tools available to testers.
  • Set up the testing infrastructure.
  • Use the tools for unit testing.
  • Understand how the lab environment works and how it supports a project.
  • Understand the power of the manual testing tools.
  • Learn to use the tools for automated testing.
  • Use the tools in the testing toolbox.

In addition, this guidance describes testing with the Visual Studio 2012 RC testing infrastructure composed of Team Foundation Server, Build System, Test Controller, and SharePoint, and discusses the supported reporting functionality that can help track various test velocities and code coverage. This guide also helps you understand the critical ways in which your testing processes will change with the use of these new tools.

After reading this book, you will be familiar with how to set up Team Foundation Server in Visual Studio 2012 RC and its corresponding infrastructure components in a number of configurations. You'll also have a good understanding of how to use the Visual Studio 2012 RC testing tools such as Lab Manager and code coverage tests to achieve a far more effective testing experience and full application lifecycle management for your system.”

The related code samples can be downloaded from Codeplex.

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