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Thanks – Deon Herbert
Visual Studio Team
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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!
987 votesALM Rangers have started the project: Better Unit Testing with Test Code Generation to address this UserVoice idea.
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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
584 votesThis is i the feature team’s backlog.
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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 votesWe have a backlog item to add more features to manage UI Maps & maintain Coded UI Test in the Coded UI Test Editor.
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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.
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245 votes
Cross Browser support has been added to Coded UI Test with the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1.
For more details, visit http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2012/10/30/introducing-cross-browser-testing-with-coded-ui-tests.aspxPlease comment on whether you find the feature useful. We will close the topic based on your feedback
Shubhra Maji MSFT
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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
199 votesThis is the feature team’s backlog
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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) { … }184 votesI have added an item in the product backlog for this.
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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 votesThis is currently in the feature team’s backlog
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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…
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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.
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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)
119 votesThis is already in the feature team’s backlog.
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110 votes
This is currently in the feature team’s backlog.
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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.
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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.
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84 votes
This is currently in the feature team’s backlog.
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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…
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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.
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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 votesThis is currently in the feature team’s backlog
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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?
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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 votesI have added this item to the producy backlog.
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