Wrox - Professional Software Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System

The goals of this book are to:
+ Introduce you to the Visual Studio Team System big picture.
+ Walk you through the overall user interface of the VSTEST and VSTESD development and testing tools.
+ Dive deep into each of the test types available to test engineers and software developers.
+ Help you understand how to effectively put the code analysis and dynamic analysis tools to use.
+ Pull together the pieces to see how they integrate into a team setting.

My co-authors, editors, and I wrote this book because many of us were either on the Microsoft team that helped create these testing tools or are in the industry putting those tools to use effectively day in and day out. We want to share with you what has worked for us and how these tools are intended to be used so that you can be effective as a software developer or test engineer on your team as quickly as possible.

Who This Book Is For

VSTS blurs the line between software test engineers and developers, and as a result we have two main audiences who will find this book essential in their use of the test and analysis tools. Software developers will be interested in the unit testing, code analysis, and profiling tools to help them better understand how to write quality code. Test engineers will want to use the unit tests written by the developers and possibly write some of their own unit tests, as well as create web, load, and manual tests to help create a complete approach to testing their product. Both testers and developers will want to make use of the code coverage results from running their tests and the user interface for creating, organizing, and maintaining those tests; as well as leveraging the libraries they create for such things as having those tests run against each new build before it is determined worth installing for testing purposes. Both audiences will also want to understand the integration points of where the tools plug in to other aspects of VSTS.

The assumption is that you already have a working knowledge of Visual Studio. This is an easier assumption to make for the audience comprised of software developers since many of them are already using Visual Studio. This is not so easy for those who are focused on the tool from a software tester’s role if they haven’t already been writing source code, because this is the first time testing tools have been integrated into Visual Studio from the ground up. Regardless, there is not sufficient space for us to go into great depth regarding Visual Studio itself. We instead focus mainly on the testing and analysis tools found specifically in the VSTEST and VSTESD editions of VSTS.