Creating Manual Test Cases
You can create manual test cases to test your application by using Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate or Visual Studio Test Professional. In a manual test case, you can document all the required test steps for a specific scenario and any other information that you must have to run the manual test. This might include attaching files to the manual test case. You must add your manual test cases to a test plan to be able to run them using Test Runner. By adding your manual test cases to a plan you can save the results every time that you run your test.
Note
To add manual test cases into your test plan, you must use Microsoft Test Manager. A test case is a work item; therefore it can also be viewed and edited like any other work item from Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. However, to edit the test steps, you must use Microsoft Test Manager.
Tasks
Use the following topics to help you create manual test cases:
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Creating a Manual Test Case: You can create a manual test case with both action and validation test steps using Microsoft Test Manager. You can also add test steps by copying and pasting from Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Word. In addition, you can add parameters to a manual test case to run the test multiple times with different data. |
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Speed Up Manual Test Case Creation: You can create a copy of an existing manual test case as a starting point to create another test case. You can create a test case from Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word. You can copy and paste test steps from other test cases. Or you can use actions that you record when you run a test to create a test case. |
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Reduce Maintenance by Sharing Test Steps: You can share test steps between manual test cases. For example, if each test case has to log on to the application under test, you can create shared steps to perform these actions and add it to each test case. In addition, you can add parameters to your shared steps to use them in test cases where you want to run the test multiple times with different data. |
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Remove a Test Case That Is No Longer Required: If a test case is no longer required to test your application, then you can change the state of the test case to closed. |
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Update Multiple Test Cases at the Same Time: If you want to update the same field for multiple test cases, you can select the test cases using Visual Studio and then perform a bulk update of the fields in multiple test cases using Microsoft Excel. For example, you might want to change the iteration for a group of test cases. |
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Customize a Test Case Work Item Type: If the Test Case work item type that is provided in your team project does not meet your needs, you can create your own or customize one of the provided types. |
Related Scenarios
Running Manual Tests Using Test Runner
You can run the manual test cases that you have created and record the results.
How to: Search for Test Cases from Microsoft Test Manager
To find specific test cases, you can search for them.
Organizing Test Cases Using Test Suites
You can organize your test cases into test suites. This makes it easier to find test cases and you can also run all the tests in a test suite.
External Resources
Videos
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Visual Studio Developer Center: How Do I Manage Test Cases with Visual Studio 2010
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MSDN Virtual Lab: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Introduction to Quality Tracking with Visual Studio 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Introduction to Exploratory Testing with Microsoft Test Manager 2010
MSDN Virtual Lab: Introduction to Platform Testing with Microsoft Test Manager 2010
Forums
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