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There is a new and better way for planning and managing manual test passes/runs with TFS (Team Foundation Server) 2010. The first most important change is that, there is no more a need to maintain thousands of .mht files in test projects for manual tests like in version 2008. You also don’t have to maintain your manual tests in via Test list editor (.vsmdi). Now, all the manual test cases reside in TFS database and are maintained there. A manual test case is just like any other workitem. The Test Edition or Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate comes with a new tool called Microsoft Test Manager 2010. Lets see some of the basic test planning features.

Visual Studio Team System 2008 offer variety of tests that you can create depending on the application and your testing needs. I recently came across a scenario where I want to test basic functionality of our home grown proxy server. The testing focus was to make sure that the server behaves as expected on the GET and POST requests send to it. I quickly figured out that I am going to need some tool with with I am able to record/capture HTTP request going to and coming from the server. OpenSTA was an obvious choice, as I knew I can do that in OpenSTA, but when you have a powerful tool like VSTS, you may want to think twice. Also, as all the other tests for the project were in VSTS umbrella, it made more sence to include these server tests to the same suite. VSTS offers a kind of test with which you can record/capture the HTTP/S traffic to your webserver or website or for that matter any such server that is communicating on HTTP protocol.

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