In this blog post, Rui Sun and Andre Hamilton explore some Visual Studio 2012 capabilities that will make it easier to test and verify Windows 8 applications. Visual Studio 2012 has a simulator that reduces your need to have physical devices of every form factor at your disposal for testing. You can launch your application in the simulator directly from within the Visual Studio through the debugging action. Then you can interact with your application using the mouse or using simulated touch on your development computer with gestures like swipe, …

The new Visual Studio 2012 tries to improve the developer unit testing experience, particularly for agile teams. The entire unit testing framework has been made extensible, which will allow you to use testing frameworks such as xUnit.net and NUnit in addition to the unit testing framework built into Visual Studio. This talk presents the history of unit testing in Visual Studio and then takes you through the product, showing off the new unit testing features.

This is a series of three posts by Nick Olson about the topic of unit testing your code your when you are writing a javascript client application with a .NET backend. The first post is an introduction that defines the context and presents the tools that will be used. The second post provides the code to test the javascript using KnockoutJS and Qunit. The third post explains how see the javascript unit tests results when you are inside Visual Studio. This is achieved using a browser automation tool walled Watin …

Visual Studio allows you to create automated tests of the user interface (UI) known as coded UI tests. These tests provide functional testing of the UI and validation of UI controls. This article provides test automation guidance that helps you leverage the coded UI features of Visual Studio 2010 to foster a continuous, consistent and standard automation approach. Such an approach allows you to build, deploy and test, taking advantage of Visual Studio Lab Management features, which let automation testers reap the benefits of integrating with the build process for …

This video takes a detailed look at coded UI tests,which can be used to create fully automated UI tests for Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Forms, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), and web applications. Learn some techniques for creating robust coded UI tests which can be maintained over time along with your evolving application.

This blog post presents the changes to unit testing made in the new version of Visual Studio. The Test View and Test Results windows have been replaced by the Unit Test Explorer, a new user interface that let developers quickly interact with their tests. Third party test frameworks are supported by a new test meta-runner that coordinates and controls the flow of data between the user interface and the underlying test frameworks. Visual Studio will also provide a true native unit testing framework for C/C++. A new test isolation and …

This blog post provides a detail process on how to write  acceptance tests for the UI using Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft Test Manager and Fit style tables.  Fit tables, originally defined for the fitnesse open source software testing tool, allow stakeholders and business analysts to enter expected input and the proper output in a tool they are comfortable wit, like word processor or a spreadsheet.

This article provides a process to integrate Test-Driven Development in the maintenance of a .NET application. You will first write the tests that will prove your new code gets the same results as the legacy code. Then you isolate new code into separate methods or classes that you can test independently. You break down the requirements into simple valid tests. Finally you check to see that you have not introduced a new bug. While you are doing this, let Visual Studio generate the utility code for you and find a …

This video describes the six mechanisms in Visual Studio 2010 that enable more effective collaboration between developers and testers. These mechanisms include tools to create actionable bugs, debug historical events, and automate functional testing. Effective collaboration between developers and testers is paramount and can make the difference between shipping quality applications on time, or slipping because bugs are found late.

Have you visited the treasures of Visual Studio Menu bar tools | Options | Test Tools lately? The options to enable disable prompts on creating, editing, deleting or running manual/automated tests can be controller from here. The default test project language and default test types created on a new test project creation could be selected/unselected from here.