Musings on software development
Anutthara Bharadwaj's notes on software development, Visual Studio and other random stuff
Cheat sheet : Submitting an entry to a software testing conference
Recently, I have been spending time reviewing papers submitted to two of the biggest software...
Date: 11/28/2011
Industrial Strength Exploratory Testing - part 4
Continuing from the previous post, here is our last myth: Myth 3: Bugs found through exploratory...
Date: 11/22/2011
Industrial Strength Exploratory Testing - part 3
Let's pick up mythbusting from where we left off Myth 2: There is no way to measure exploratory...
Date: 11/03/2011
Reduce the size of test data in VS 2010 by avoiding publishing deployment binaries into TFS
Over the past few weeks, we have heard a spate of complaints about TFS database being bloated with...
Date: 10/30/2011
Industrial Strength Exploratory Testing - part 2
In the last part, I introduced exploratory testing and looked at some advantages of employing...
Date: 10/20/2011
Exploratory testing - introduction
I have been meaning to put together a series of blog posts on exploratory testing - how exploratory...
Date: 10/20/2011
Getting Results the Agile Way
Cliched, but true : the thing I love the most about Microsoft is the chance to work with some of the...
Date: 02/08/2011
UI automation for Silverlight apps now available in feature pack 2 for VS 2010
Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 is now available to MSDN subscribers. The feature pack contains...
Date: 11/15/2010
Patch for Microsoft Test Manager released
We recently released a rollup QFE for Microsoft Test Manager that contains fixes for some crashes,...
Date: 11/01/2010
Guidance for Creating Test Plans and Test Suites
Customers trying to start up with MTM newly, often ask for general guidance around how to start from...
Date: 09/22/2010
Update on Silverlight UI automation release
[Update on 11/14/2010] The Silverlight UI automation features are now released and available for...
Date: 07/14/2010
Cross browser testing on Firefox with Visual Studio 2010 UI automation
Cross browser testing on IE and FireFox is now supported in Visual Studio Test Tools with the...
Date: 04/19/2010
Testing support for Silverlight apps in Visual Studio 2010
Whenever we talk about platform coverage for UI automation one of the frequent requests is support...
Date: 03/21/2010
Exploratory testing with Visual Studio Test Pro
Exploratory testing(ET) as defined by Bach is simultaneous learning, test design and execution. It...
Date: 02/17/2010
Hey – who’s the tester anyway?
When I talk to customers about using test tools, often enough, there are widely varying expectations...
Date: 02/15/2010
Walkthrough: Using multiple Coded UI maps in test automation
This post will continue the previous post of Scaling up your CUIT UI automation for real world...
Date: 02/10/2010
Resources for Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools
Our team has been busy putting together content for the Test Tools in Visual Studio 2010, and here...
Date: 02/09/2010
Resources for Test Tools in Visual Studio 2010
Our team has been busy putting together content for the Test Tools in Visual Studio 2010, and here...
Date: 02/09/2010
Scaling up your CUIT UI automation for real world projects
One of the complaints that we heard often from Coded UI test users in Beta2 was that the coded UI...
Date: 02/08/2010
Pricing for VS 2010 SKUs announced
The pricing for the VS2010 SKUs are finally available. Check out the table below for retail prices...
Date: 01/25/2010
How to simulate more than 250 virtual users on Load Test in VS2010 Beta2?
VS2010 Beta2 comes with a default license of only 250 virtual users per client. So, if you want to...
Date: 01/21/2010
What apps and browsers does Coded UI test work on?
Here is a snapshot of the platform support provided by Coded UI (and also ability to Fast Forward in...
Date: 01/14/2010
Wanna know about VS2010 ALM in 5 mins?
The VSTS Rangers have come up with this great set of content on VS2010 ALM that is basically...
Date: 01/13/2010
VS2010 demos for testing tools – MTLM, CUIT and related features
Our PM team has put together a great series of demo videos to illustrate the new set of features...
Date: 12/21/2009
Running tests in mstest without installing the VS IDE
Yes, you CAN run your unit tests or any other VS test type on a machine without having Visual Studio...
Date: 12/16/2009
How to remove unwanted actions from the recording in Manual Test Runner/MTLM?
If you were recording your application while doing manual testing inside MTLM, you must have come...
Date: 12/04/2009
Wanna win a Hyundai i20 car? Answer some qs on VS 2010
Check out the VS ALM challenge at https://www.vsalmchallenge.com/ – exciting stuff! Take the...
Date: 12/03/2009
WPF controls not getting identified in Beta2 CUIT?
Are you having trouble identifying a few of your WPF controls in Coded UI Test after upgrading to...
Date: 12/02/2009
What's new for manual testers in VS2010 Beta2?
I just gave a talk with the same title at Virtual Tech Days 2010. Deck and videos shared on my...
Date: 11/12/2009
Tool to import test cases from Excel to MTLM (VS 2010 Beta2) now available on codeplex
Importing test cases from Excel to VS2010 is a no longer a pain. Check out Test Case Migrator...
Date: 11/06/2009
Designing the Coded UI Test Builder
The Coded UI test interface has undergone a redesign in Beta2 to make it easier and more intuitive....
Date: 10/27/2009
What’s new for testers doing UI automation in VS 2010 Beta2?
We are back in Beta2 with a bunch of new stuff in Coded UI test for UI automation testers. First up,...
Date: 10/25/2009
Where are my Team System features?
With the new SKU structure in Visual Studio, there is no longer any SKU called “Team System”. So,...
Date: 10/23/2009
Testing Silverlight applications with VSTS 2010 – coded UI, MTLM and web tests
Lately, we’ve been asked by some of our users if they can use VSTS 2010 test features to test their...
Date: 08/27/2009
Using regular expressions to locate controls in Coded UI Test
When testing UI applications, you often want to locate a control on the app under test that has...
Date: 08/19/2009
Migrating test cases from Excel to VSTS 2010
Lately, there has been a hurried slew of queries on migrating test cases to VSTS 2010 from other...
Date: 08/19/2009
Our first raving fan for Team Test in VSTS 2010!
Yay - I finally got to see our Dev10 Team Test bits being used in production! E&D team in in...
Date: 07/16/2009
My top 3 favorite features of Outlook in Office 2010
Well – the tech preview for Office 2010 is now public – and I am bursting to tell you guys my...
Date: 07/15/2009
Video recording crashing your Test Manager in VSTS 2010 Beta1?
Getting a video recording of your test to attach to the bug you file on your developer can be a...
Date: 06/26/2009
UI automation breaking due to window title changing each time?
When testing UI applications, specially web apps, we frequently encounter the problem of window...
Date: 06/11/2009
Where are the 1.4 million developers of India?
As I sit here @ Tech Ed 2009 in Hyderabad, that’s what I am wondering looking at the sparse audience...
Date: 05/13/2009
Latest trends in software testing
Check out this article in ITMagz.com that covers the latest trends in software testing. This is...
Date: 04/21/2009
Your developer can never say "no repro" to your bug ever again!
You have already used the bug tracking system (WIT) in TFS before. So, we integrated this bug...
Date: 12/05/2007
Rosario November CTP - did you play it back yet?
Right after we RTM-ed Orcas last Monday, we are out with the November CTP of Rosario VSTS. Go on...
Date: 12/01/2007
Odds and ends
So, we've been heads down building the latest Rosario CTP of VSTT for you guys. Some good new stuff...
Date: 11/26/2007