Testing tools in Visual Studio

Visual Studio testing tools can help you and your team develop and sustain high standards of code excellence.

About testing tools

Overview

• First look at testing tools
• Unit test tools & tasks
• Unit test basics
• Live Unit Testing overview (.NET)

Get started

Tutorial

• Get started with unit testing
• Run unit tests with Test Explorer

How-To Guide

• Code coverage - Determine how much code is being tested

.NET unit testing

Tutorial

• Create and run unit tests for managed code
• Get started with Live Unit Testing
• Generate unit tests (IntelliTest)
• Test execution with Hot Reload

How-To Guide

• Microsoft Fakes - Isolate code under test

C++ unit testing

Overview

• Write unit tests for C/C++

Related tools (Azure DevOps)

How-To Guide

• Exploratory & manual testing (Azure Test Plans)
• Load testing (Azure Load Testing)
• Continuous testing (Azure Pipelines)