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Include Pex and Moles with all Visual Studio editions
Include Pex and Moles with all editions of Visual Studio including Professional edition rather than being restricted to developers with Premium or Ultimate editions of Visual Studio. This will allow all Visual Studio developers to leverage the capabilities of the Moles mocking library and the additional feedback for Unit Testing available with Pex.
856 votes -
Test Explorer is severely limited
I have to assume the people who developed the VS2012/2013 test explorer view never actually had to use it in production. The test explorer view is horribly limited in comparison to the one in VS2010.
1. Running tests does not open the Test Explorer window until after all the tests completed running. There's literally no indication that anything is happening. VS2010 immediately opened the window to show you that the tests were running.
2. Where are the columns? Most importantly: the error message column. if I'm dealing with multiple test failures, I almost always just need to see the error…
712 votes -
Make IntelliTest available to Visual Studio Professional
In Visual Studio 2015 IntelliTest are a fantastic idea!
Restricting it to Visual Studio Ultimate is not a good news. Please make it available to more users.639 votes -
Enable IntelliTest to generate tests for VB.NET projects
Please extend IntelliTest to enable generating tests for VB.NET projects.
479 votes -
support Spec Explorer in Visual Studio 2013
Spec Explorer 2010, a model-based testing tool extension is supported in Visual Studio 2010/2012, this suggestion is to make it work with Visual Studio 2013.
440 votes -
Starting then running all unit tests in a solution can take a very long time.
We have over 200 projects, 2900+ unit tests. It takes over a minute some times to get to the point where it can start listing all the unit tests in the test window, and start executing. We have latest gen Core I7, 8GB 64 bit windows, and it is still a pain. Maybe this area needs 're-imagining', as I can understand the complexities of managing this large number of projects/tests, but it is not working well for us.
439 votesThank you for the feedback. We will look at how best to address this.
Pratap Lakshman
Visual Studio Team -
Allow Test Explorer To export test results
When running tests in Test Explorer, there doesn't appear to be a way to export these results. This would be useful in order to share failed test results with fellow team members. Ability to export to trx would be wonderful. I know this can be accomplished via commandline, but running from commandline is a rather clunky solution, especially if you want to re-run failed test.
400 votes -
Replace Action Recordings in MTM with Xamarin Test Recorder
Action Recordings (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd286647(v=vs.110).aspx) are nearly useless and are very fragile. Instead Xamarin Test Recorder https://www.xamarin.com/test-cloud/recorder should be integrated into MTM (Microsoft Test Manager) and extended to work with WPF/Win Form/ Desktop applications that require automated testing.
366 votes -
Make the VS Test Explorer Open source
This entry tracks the interest in seeing the VS Test Explorer open sourced.
317 votes -
Coded UI test html log should record assertion
Include assertion checks in the HTML log file created by QTAgent this is essential for testers as many times they are asked to show proof specially in medical companies(at list that what my personal experience says)
272 votesHello,
I have asked the product team to consider this in their next updates.
Thanks,
Chuck -
Code coverage support for Windows Phone projects
Please enable code coverage support for Windows Phone projects.
259 votes -
Add option to control automatic test discovery after builds
I am working on solution that contains 13 000+ unit tests split between several (10+) projects. I am trying to use TDD, but after each build there is a long time window while Test Explorer tries to discover ALL the tests in my solution.
I need an option to disable/enable the automatic test discovery and a new command to trigger it manually whenever I need to refresh the test list. This will save me literally hours each day.257 votesAs explained in this blog post (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2015/10/08/how-we-use-user-voice-to-make-a-better-product.aspx), we had updated the status of this suggestion to “Under Review” to let you know we are tracking it on our backlog. To better indicate which one we are actively working on or which ones are on our 6-month plan, we introduced the states “Started” and “Planned”. The goal is to give an update on in progress suggestions at least every 3 months. This suggestion is still on our backlog, but they are not part of the 6-month plan.
Ewald Hofman
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Support Microsoft Fakes on .NET Core
Microsoft Fakes is powerful function for testing. Please provide support to use Microsoft Fakes Stub/Shim context in .NET Core test project.
239 votes -
Code Coverage support for Windows Store Applications (Windows 8 Apps)
Please enable code coverage support for Windows Store Applications (Windows 8 Apps).
231 votes -
Coded UI support in multi desktop feature of Windows 10
Hi,
I have installed latest Windows 10 and Visual Studio 2013 Update 5.
Initiated a Run CodedUI test in Windows 10 -> Desktop 1, opened Desktop 2 to do some other work and hoping that CodedUI test will run in Desktop 1.
But my assumption was wrong.
Visual Studio is Running on Desktop 1.
Execution of opening Web browser and Navigating took place in Desktop 2.
Where I thought still both Desktop 1 and Desktop 2 are active sessions, hence CodedUI execution would be take place in Desktop 1.
Is it a bug or behavior is correct.
As a end…
228 votes -
Support Spec Explorer in Visual Studio 2015
Spec Explorer is a masterpiece for testing requirements:
It is closest to the best general known way of defining requirements ( thanks to abstract state machines) in a language you master using a very rich object-object oriented architecture!
Please make it work with Visual Studio 2015.214 votes -
Enable IntelliTest for 64 bit projects
Enable IntelliTest for 64 bit projects
188 votes -
The Processor Architecture for Tests should use the current Platform type
1. Pick a Platform and Configuration from the drop-downs
2. Go to Test Explorer and run testsAll tests FAIL!
The tests use the 'Default Processor Architecture' which can be configured under the TEST menu. If that doesn't match the Platform type I'm working with, tests fail to run.
Whenever I change the Platform, I need to remember to also change the Default Processor Architecture.
I suggest that when I pick a platform, the Default Processor Architecture also changes to match.
185 votes -
In codedUI test assertion, capability to compare image also.
Instead of checking if some control has a specific property or not, I want to compare image of the control (e.g. for a button, It would like to verify that It's shape, font color, font size, BGColor and text hasn't changed, I can verify all of this simply by comparing the current image and the one at time of recording)
177 votes -
It would be great if you add a feature for COdedui framework to generate single UITestActionLog.html file for all the test methods too.
It would be great if you add a feature for COdedui framework to generate single UITestActionLog.html file for all the test methods apart from individual Html Files.
176 votes
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