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Visual Studio Team
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Choosing a new UIMap when you create a Coded UI Test from existing test recording
It will be a better feature to choose a different UIMap when you create a coded UI test from an existing recording or Test and Lab manager. Currently, you have to edit the UIMap to move some code in another UIMap and it's not very funny !
53 votesAdded to Product backlog and under consideration for vNext planning.
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Add ability to order test suites
When test plan is defined it would be nice to have ability to order test suites in it as you can order test case in test suite (ability to edit SequenceNumber from table tbl_SuiteEntry for suites)
51 votesThis is currently in the feature team’s backlog.
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Add component based test functionality similar to HP BPT to VST/MTM.
From my experience so far with VSTS/MTM the design of the tool requires either programming savvy testers or a programmer embedded in the test team to automate tests. With multiple product teams, I currently have a more cost effective module using HP BPT. In each of my teams, non-technical product SMEs can easily learn to create reusable component based BPT (Business Processing Tests) scripts. One small team of automation engineers (4) using HP QTP then automates tests for many test teams who then run those tests. With existing SME based product test teams, it would be difficult to justify adding…
45 votesWe have a backlog item to add more features to Coded UI Test Editor with the goal of significantly minimizing the Code required for creating/maintaining Coded UI Test.
In addition, we are proposing a graphical editor to manage the recorded methods.
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Multi-monitor support for MTM Video Recording
Currently it is very unpredictable which monitor will be recorded when using the video recording feature. It is very easy to record sensitive information such as the testers personal email.
By default it should only record the monitor that test runner is on but this should be configurable incase testers use a different monitor for the Application Under Test
Ideally it should be more obvious which monitor is being recorded. A slight red glow around the monitor in question when recording would be nice.
42 votesWe are considering how we can solve this problem as Expression Encoder 4.0 (used by MTM for video recording) does not support multi-monitor recording.
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Enable UI Map Hierarchy editing in Coded UI Test Editor
The Coded UI Test Editor introduce in Visual Studio Feature Pack 2 (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg269474.aspx) has great potential. Many times when recording control, the heirarchy created to represent nested control sometimes gets constructed incorrectly. For example, I may have nested UI structure like A->B->C->D and wish to interact with D. Many times the constructed UI Map will be lobotomized and only contain B->C->D or C->D when creating an interaction with D. What is odd about this is that Microsoft's UI Spy tool contained in the Windows SDK always gets the proper hierarchy. My suggestion is two-fold. Employ the UI Map…
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Show parent work item when listing work items in MTM
When Assinging a build to a plan (Track - Assing build or recommend tests)
You get a list of associated work item (if the team is associating WI to changesets)It would usefull to see the parent work item in the list as often we are more interested in the associated ser story or PBI.
37 votesThis is currently in the feature team’s backlog
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Visual Studio 2012 coded UI test *must* support Chrome, Safari and FF4!
Seriously, how can you not support web technology on iPad and the fastest growing browser out there? Supporting Chrome and Safari is a requirement for many companies in the web development business and not having that with VS2012 is a massive drawback.
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Support for the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome on the MTM and Coded UI
The feature pack 2 and the support for the Firefox was a great advance, however the Firefox has been updated and the adoption of Chrome is increasing and all the time that I show MTM for my customers, the first question is "Do you support Chrome and Firefox?".
It's unnecessary say that, sometimes it is a blocker.
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Make a new test attribute to mark a test to run in parallel
Define a new test attribute or extend the TestMethod/TestClass with a property to indicate the the particular test method or all the test methods in the test class can run in parallel we the other, because the are completely thread safe; in this way is possible to use all core to run more efficiently the tests.
31 votesI have added an item in the product backlog to enable this.
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Monitoring UNIX in load tests
Add support for monitoring UNIX server resources in load tests. Perhaps pull counters from NMON similar to how perfmon is accessed in Windows
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Allow Boost Test Cases to be grouped into a Test Suite and reflect the same in the Test Explorer Window
In Native Unit Tests, a TEST_METHOD can be grouped under a TEST_CLASS and the same is reflected in the Test Explorer.
In a similar fashion, I would like to group BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE under BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE and same be reflected in the Test Explorer.
Example Code:
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE( test_suite1 )
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( test_case1 ){ BOOST_ERROR( "some error 1" ); }
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_CASE( test_case2 ){ BOOST_ERROR( "some error 2" ); }
BOOST_AUTO_TEST_SUITE_END()
In the above example, two Test Cases belong to a common Test Suite.
Hence i would like these two test cases be grouped under this Test Suite and reflected in the Test Explorer Window.31 votes -
Provide feedback when unit tests are running
When unit tests are being run, very little feedback is given in Test Explorer. It is very hard to know that something is going on.
The test icon changes only after each test is executed. If the icon of the test reflected its "pending" state, it would be helpful.28 votes -
Coded UI - Have a "continue on error" for asserts
Currenlty if a assert fails, the test stops
(Since the CodedUI is built on top the unit test framework)But in a Coded UI test you may have multiple assert in a page and currently you have code a Try Catch block.
In web performance test the continue on error does exist.(the feature pack 2 as misleading Continue on Error but that is only associated to playback)
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How can I query test results in TFS? Test Manager seems poorly integrated.
As a product owner I want to review PBIs and related Test Cases, including test results, in TFS so that I know what to review for product readiness. I do not appear to be able to perform this simple function if we use Test Manager.
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Provide named filters for sets of unit tests in the Unit Test Explorer, Test Manager, and Tfs
There needs to be a way of specifying to only run the unit tests that have some specified properties and sharing that criteria with the team and build server. This is not a “list” of tests. This is a query that returns a set of tests.
This could then be used by developer to tester to only run the set of tests they are interested in. That maybe based on namespace, test names, test categories, priority, attributes etc.
This would enable a number of scenarios. There is a start to this for TFS builds but it is limited to use…
28 votesThe product team is has started work to address this scenario.
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28 votes
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Lab Management support for VM running on non Hyper-V infrastructure
currently only VM running on Hyper-V are directly supported.
All other virtualization solution requires treating the VM like physical machine and therefore it is not easily possible to test a multiple machine setup. Especially ESX based virtualization is very common.
27 votesThis is a commonly asked feature. We will make some more headway in supporting non-Hyper-V platforms. However, the first class experience will continue to be offered on SCVMM and Hyper-V platform, at least for the next release.
Vijay Machiraju, Principal Program Manager, Visual Studio Test and Lab Management
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In Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012, we have improved on a concept of Standard Environments which will really help with non-SCVMM environments. It will allow you to use them in the Build, Deploy, Test workflow without any additional changes. Lab Management will even reach out to each of the machines in your environment and install the Visual Studio Agents automatically. I would love for everyone to give Standard Environments a try and then let us know if this meets what you would like or what else you would like us to do more. Thanks… -
Improve Test Runner in Microsoft Test Manager
Here are my suggestions for improving Test Manager:-
*The Active Step currently being tested, should always remain in the middle of the dialog and the steps should vertically scroll automatically so that the current step remains in the middle
*When the test runner reaches a shared step, then it should go by default to the first step in that shared step. Currently it skips the shared step out when using CTRL-WINDOWS-Q to move on a step
*Whilst it is useful to see the physical Parameter Name when testing the test at the "Design" stage, it is not required when running…
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Reduce the time it takes to deploy virtual environments
Could a delta of the VHD (virtual hard disk) be created when deploying the virtual machine in the Lab Management tool instead of creating a full copy of the VHD? This would do two things: 1) greatly speed up the time that it takes to deploy the virtual environments 2) reduce the amount of SAN storage that is needed to support Lab Management.
26 votesThere are two ways in which this can be done – (a) Use differencing disks for VHDs or (b) Use SAN’s capabilities to do rapid cloning of LUNs. The first one is too complex to manage across a large number of hosts. Furthermore SCVMM (possibly next version as well) does not support this. The second option is where we think this idea might see light. As we make more progress, we will know whether this is feasible, and what infrastructure requirements this would impose. Thanks for the suggestion.
Vijay Machiraju – Principal Program Manager, Visual Studio Test and Lab Management
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Add spell check functionality to MTM so that test case writers have the ability to spell check test case steps etc.
Add spell check functionality to MTM so that test case writers have the ability to spell check test case steps etc.
25 votes
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