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  1. 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.

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      There 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

    • Add third interface for Coded UI

      At the moment Coded UI runs off of the MSAA & UIA interfaces. These interfaces are extremely difficult to implement and are causing a lot of grief as well as driving users to other tools. Can we have a third interface that's easier to implement and interface.

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      • Coded UI can discover the color/backgroundColor of the controls in WPF

        We can´t valite business rules involving a color change in the UI. Ex, if the balance is negative, the color of textbox where you see the balance is red.

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        • Allow to disable the query "Run tests from the last successful build?"

          The Tools / Options dialog contains the following settings for running the application:

          On Run, when build or deployment errors occur:
          "Launch old version", "Do not launch", "Prompt to launch".

          If I hit Ctrl-R A to run all tests and the build results in errors, then the following dialog appears:

          "There were build errors. Would you like to continue and run tests from the last successful build?"

          This is a hassle, in particular when implementing in TDD-style.
          It would be very convenient to have the same choice for tests as for application launch:

          On Test, when build or deployment errors…

          24 votes
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          • Provide fine-grained permissions on test plan

            Any Project Contributor can access any test plan in the project. I would like permissions to be configurable at the level of a test plan.

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            • allow queries for data driven unit tests

              Currently, one of the strong points of Visual Studio test is its ability to create data driven tests from a data source. Although declaring multiple options is also nice (NUnit-style, as mentioned multiple times already here), I suggest to extend the data driven tests, and refactor them for easier and more robust handling.

              Currently, the data driven test only suppports three data adapters: CSV, XML, and the data base drivers. Each have very specific needs (i.e. the xml file needs a very specific structure to allow selecting the table. Inline xml nodes are almost impossible to read, xml schemas need…

              23 votes
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              • Edit test steps within Visual Studio or TFS Web Access

                Allow folks who use studio or the TFS web UI to create or edit test case steps without having to launch Test Manager.

                22 votes
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                • support running coded ui tests as 64-bit process

                  Coded UI tests should be able to run as 64-bit process.

                  21 votes
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                  • Add the ability sort test cases inside a Specification based suite

                    Unlike Static test suites, you cannot currently specify an order for test cases created under a specification based suite. Would be useful!

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                    • Provide Microsoft Fakes with all Visual Studio editions

                      Include Microsoft Fakes with all editions of Visual Studio including Professional edition rather than being restricted to developers with Ultimate or premium editions of Visual Studio. This will allow all Visual Studio developers to leverage the capabilities of the Fakes mocking library since mocking/stubbing is a necessary part of every developer's Unit Testing toolbelt.

                      I don't think it is acceptable to restrict and prevent developers from adopting good software practices. Today we preach TDD is or should be mandatory for good quality code, in VS2010 we get Pex and Moles delivered into the hands of many programmers and with VS2012,…

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                      • Allow connecting to Test Controller using different user credentials

                        It should be possible to connect to a MS Test Controller with different user credentials than the one logged in using Visual Studio (2010).
                        Mapping net shares we can use any user credentials.
                        In Visual Studio when we connect to a MS Test Controller automatically the logged in user is used.
                        It should be possible to use a different user for connecting to the Controller.

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                        • Provide aggregation of test run data in Analyze Test Runs

                          When analyzing test runs it only displays the pass fail rates of items selected during that exact same test run but there are times I would like to see several test runs combined, such as in one day's worth or over multiple continuous integration builds, to see the total "run" test results. This particulalry a pain when users select only 1 item to execute at a time and have to jump to other items then back so I can only get a bunch of singular test case execution runs that I cannot view the oeverall progress.

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                          • Allow to copy multiple test suites from another test plan

                            Test Manager has ability to copy a test suite from anather test plan but when you want to copy multiple test suites from another plan; mtm doesnt let you to select multiple suites.
                            You have to copy test suites one by one to another plan.
                            It can be better to select multiple suites on the "Copy Suites From Another Plan" window or please change the window name to "Copy A Suite From Another Plan"; cause it is a bug otherwise

                            19 votes
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                            • Provide the functionality of cut and paste objects in the UIMap

                              In CodedUI Test, while creating a UIMap, the GUI tool does not allow copying/cutting and pasting objects in the tree from one node to another. In order to do this, one has to open the UI Map in XML editor. It would be logical to provide such a functionality (It already exists in the object repository for tival tools like HP Quick Test Professional). It allows organizing the UIMap better (since UIMap object recording tends to create unnecesary parent replications for each new object added)

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                              • Support Coded UI Testing for Windows Store applications

                                I am a QA at a company with a Windows 8 Modern UI app in development. We have a comprehensive CI automation suite across desktop and mobile sites and applications, and are looking for something to automate our Modern UI app.

                                Usually we would use Coded UI Test in VS 2012 Ultimate, but it appears that this is not supported.

                                Can you please support Coded UI Test for Windows Store applications? I cannot see us releasing this application to the Store until we have the security of automation behind us.

                                18 votes
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                                • Record action from current iteration when ‘Overwrite the existing action recording’ is selected

                                  I was trying to execute my test case by recording my steps. My test case has different set of parameters for every iteration. After all the steps marked as ‘Passed’ I clicked on ‘End iteration and move to next’ it asked me an option to ‘Overwrite the existing action recording’. I checked on the check box and clicked on ‘Start Test’

                                  Bug
                                  When I go back to ‘View Results’ and see vedio recording it records the steps from my first iteration.

                                  Desired Change
                                  It should capture actions from current iteration.

                                  18 votes
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                                  • I wish to have code coverage for database projects

                                    The dotnet-projects already have code coverage, but the database projects not. I wish to improve the quality of my database unit test by code coverage.

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                                    • Users should be able to undo changes made to test cases in the MTM Testing Center - Plan section.

                                      Users should be able to undo changes made to test cases in the MTM Testing Center - Plan section. Currently, we need to close test case without saving and write everything all over again - Can you provide that functionality

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                                      • Make the "order" field in MTM actually mean somthing when running automated tests

                                        If you have a test plan in MTM and you begin to automate tests within that plan you don't have the option of running those automated tests in the order in which they were originally defined. The "order" field doesn't apply when in reality it should make the tests into an "ordered" test.

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                                        • You should be able to turn off "Mozilla Firefox is currently not supported" message

                                          If you use Firefox during a test run, you will get the following message:
                                          "Mozilla Firefox is currently not supported. Go to http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=157214 for information on available add-in for possible support."

                                          Firefox doesn't get tested on the system, it's just used. So there should be a way to turn off that message.

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