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TRX merger for Visual Studio Team System 2008

Monday, 18 May 2009 13:08 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Development - C#

People working on test projects that involve test management and execution from Visual Studio Team System 2008 and who do not have a TFS server for reporting will find this a handy utility.

I have already shown how one can generate a simple html report from a .trx - Visual Studio result file in Generating HTML reports from TRX using XSLT. But what if you want your html report to show test results from different testers in your team or you just want to overwrite the existing results with the latest? Without a TFS, this remains a challenge.

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Converting Excel-based tests to VSTS manual tests

Wednesday, 13 May 2009 10:46 Ajay Majgaonkar Software Development - C#

Managing test cases in Excel spredsheets is the most usual practice in test management. We all know the beauty and power that Excel provides. But, with Visual Studio Team System 2008, things are a little different. VSTS as it is called, uses a different file format for managing manual tests and also another major difference is, every manual test is a separate .mht file.

I was faced with this situation of converting all my excel based test cases into VSTS compatible manual test cases. I had around 500+ tests and converting them into VSTS manually would have probably taken more time than to develop them afresh.

I quickly pulled out a new C# project to do this task. It is pretty crude but works! and saved me days of manual work.