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  1. Add "Create Unit Tests" menu option back!

    Add "Create Unit Tests" menu option to automatically create unit test skeletons for methods and namespaces as it was in VS 2010!

    2,093 votes
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    • Excel integration with MTM

      Allow testers to open test cases in Excel and edit them and sync them back into MTM. It would also be nice if I could mark test case pass/ fail status in Excel and upload to MTM directly

      602 votes
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      • 488 votes
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        • coded ui

          Enhance Coded UI Test to include the many common features found in commercial-off-the-shelf software test automation packages like SmartBear's Test Complete. These packages typically feature very rich functionality in mapping and managing UI control objects, whereas Coded UI does not. Packages like Test Complete also boast an impressive list of technologies with which it is compatible. Coded UI is limited in this respect as well.

          466 votes
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          • Continue support for Database Unit Tests in VS 2012

            I have many Database Unit Tests in Visual Studio 2010 projects. However this feature is missing/not working in Visual Studio 2012.

            Please bring back support so I don't have to use two version of Visual Studio to work on my projects.

            255 votes
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            • Testers should be able to get parameters for a test case from a csv file

              MTM should allow parameters for a test case to be picked up from a csv file or an Excel file

              202 votes
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              • Add a RowTest attribute to MSTest to facilitate parameterized tests.

                It would be great to have a RowTest attribute (like in NUnit) added to facilitate parameterized tests, like:

                [RowTest]
                [Row(10, 10, 100)]
                Public void Add_MultipleValues_ReturnsSum(int x, int y, int expected) { … }

                187 votes
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                • Show me all test suites/ test plans a test case belongs to

                  I should be able to find out all the test plans/ test suites in which a given test case is used

                  175 votes
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                  • Test Suite Security Permissions in MTM

                    Implement security permissions at the test suite level within MTM. Currently one can set permissions in a test plan and in doing so the tester is unable to delete the test plan. Problem however, is there is no means to restrict at the suite level. So even if a tester cannot delete the test plan, they are capable of deleting any and every suite within this test plan. Since all test execution results are stored in the test suite, the plan setting should either be inherited by the suites or there should be a means to customize for the suites…

                    138 votes
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                    • provide an (extensibility) API for the Microsoft Test Manager

                      Currently we need to go quite some lengths in order to extend and customize the Microsoft Test Manager functionality (Planning, edition and running tests) because the functionality mtm(.exe) provides only overlaps to a certain extend to our usecases and right now it offers no public API which we can build upon.

                      132 votes
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                      • support parameters for radio buttons and checkboxes in MTM

                        I can use parameters while creating action recording and playback for text fields and drop down elements. This does not work for check boxes or radio buttons (For example, if I create a parameter with value "Yes" and use that for a check box, the binding does not work)

                        120 votes
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                        • 110 votes
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                          • Allow Test Case Work Items to be created for Native C++ Unit tests

                            I want the ability to associate native C++ Unit tests to Work Items of type Test Case so that I can import these test cases into Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and run these tests from MTM. We already have a large number of C# unit tests and we have done a large amount of automation around MTM. We do not want to solve this automation problem again for native C++ Unit tests.

                            110 votes
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                            • Groupping UnitTests by Namespace missing in VS2012

                              In Test Explorer groupping Tests by Namespace is not possible like in older versions of Visual Studio.

                              107 votes
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                              • support Spec Explorer in Visual Studio 2012

                                I use Spec Explorer 2010, a model-based testing tool extension to Visual Studio 2010, to generate automated test cases. It has become an important part of our testing strategy. But the current version only works with Visual Studio 2010.

                                Please develop a Spec Explorer extension for Visual Studio 2012, so that we can continue to use Spec Explorer to generate test cases as our developers move to Visual Studio 2012.

                                92 votes
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                                • Provide more visibility for a test case's result status

                                  Currently in MTM, you have to switch back and forth between the Test and Plan tabs because you can't see the test run status (i.e. Active, Passed, Failed, etc.) at the same time as you can assign testers to test cases. This makes re-balancing the workload across a large set of test cases very painful. (Also, the interface for assigning multiple test cases to a tester (or testers) is cumbersome.)

                                  It's difficult to report on test case result status within a suite - you can only easily report status using the pie chart for the entire test plan.

                                  Allow the…

                                  86 votes
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                                  • 85 votes
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                                    • Provide customization for test plan, test results

                                      I would like to customize a test plan and add new fields to it. I should be able to customize test result values - like adding Not Applicable to passed/ failed/ blocked. I should be able to customize the test failure reason on a failing test case

                                      65 votes
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                                      • Recover trx files for Unit Test

                                        I found in VS 11 Beta or VS 2012 RC, when I did some unit test, there is no trx file that stores test results any longer in the TestResults folder, so in this case, I have no way to check my previous test results, this is very inconvenience, especial when I want to save all my unit test results in somewhere, why did you remove this feature in the new version?

                                        64 votes
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                                        • Add option to stop QTAgent by the Test Agent if for example 5 minutes no test is run

                                          If some test for some reason doesn't cleanup its playback(Playback.CleanUp()) the Test Agent which run the test becomes unusable until its restarted or QTAgent is killed. In Visual Studio 2010 there is an option "Keep test execution engine running between runs" it will be very useful if its possible to set this on the Test Agents or Test Controllers.

                                          63 votes
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