Overview of MTM
These days IT companies are adopting agile mode of development in which they deliver features incrementally. Due to this incremental changes managing test cases becomes a challenge for testers, Microsoft test manager(MTM) comes as a very helpful tool in this kind of scenario.
What is Microsoft test manager(MTM)
Microsoft Test Manager allow testers to work with test plans, author and organize manual test cases, execute test cases, and post results back to Team Foundation Server. MTM comes with Visual studio ultimate, visual studio test professional and Visual studio premium.
Using Microsoft Test Manager you can run manual tests and automated tests from a test plan. When you run any of these tests from your test plan, you can save your test results into the team project for your Team Foundation Server. You can view the progress of your automated tests and manual tests from your test plan.
How to create a new test plan
1. Open MTM (From Start -> All programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 -> Microsoft test manager 2010)
2. Connect to TFS server.
3. After connecting to TFS server, click on Add link
4. Enter Plan name say "TestPlan1"
5. Click on newly created plan and then click on Select plan link at the bottom. It will take you to MTM Testing Center window. Click on New link to create a new test case under TestPlan1.
6. After clicking on New link you will see the below screen where you can enter test details as per your requirement. Then click on Save and Close link at the top right corner.
Done, you have authored your first test case by using MTM. In next post we will see how to run the test cases in MTM.
These days IT companies are adopting agile mode of development in which they deliver features incrementally. Due to this incremental changes managing test cases becomes a challenge for testers, Microsoft test manager(MTM) comes as a very helpful tool in this kind of scenario.
What is Microsoft test manager(MTM)
Microsoft Test Manager allow testers to work with test plans, author and organize manual test cases, execute test cases, and post results back to Team Foundation Server. MTM comes with Visual studio ultimate, visual studio test professional and Visual studio premium.
Using Microsoft Test Manager you can run manual tests and automated tests from a test plan. When you run any of these tests from your test plan, you can save your test results into the team project for your Team Foundation Server. You can view the progress of your automated tests and manual tests from your test plan.
How to create a new test plan
1. Open MTM (From Start -> All programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 -> Microsoft test manager 2010)
2. Connect to TFS server.
3. After connecting to TFS server, click on Add link
4. Enter Plan name say "TestPlan1"
5. Click on newly created plan and then click on Select plan link at the bottom. It will take you to MTM Testing Center window. Click on New link to create a new test case under TestPlan1.
6. After clicking on New link you will see the below screen where you can enter test details as per your requirement. Then click on Save and Close link at the top right corner.
Done, you have authored your first test case by using MTM. In next post we will see how to run the test cases in MTM.
