Using MTM on machines that are not connected

Question

Some of the tests we run are intentionally run on non-connected machines.  What kind of support is there for (for example) running Test Manager on a laptop while the test is running on another machine?  This would allow us to get timing information an annotate results.

We also do some embedded development and we would like to be able to use the same tools (MTM) to manage manual tests for that environment.  How feasible is this?

Thanks,

-Mat

Answer 1

Hi Mat,

Thank you for your post.

Run test via MTM on which machine relate to what kind of test you want to run, and the deployment of TFS machines and test environment.

Use MTM, you need to connect to a TFS, test controller will register with a test collection, test agent will connect to a test contrller. So, TFS, test controller, test agent, client machine are all include in the deployment, not sure what do you mean by "not connected", but one import thing is test may not run when cannot connect with necessary resources. The key problem of this issue is how you design the TFS, test mahcine, client machine deployment.

If you use MTM run/manage MANUAL test, the machine you open MTM is the machine that manual test run on.

If you use MTM run automated machine, MTM is UI that you manage all steps to run auto test, the test will run on the test agent in test environment. For detail information, you can refer to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd553270(v=vs.100)

You can read following test to get more information about how MTM run test, you can refer it to deploy the environment. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms182409(v=vs.100)

Regards,

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Lily Wu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 2

Thanks, Lily.

I didn't totally follow the reply. I understand that MTM has powerful functions for managing test machines that are part of the network.  My question is: is it workable at all for manual tests that run on devices or on dedicated machines that don't have MTM installed.  Your answer seems to indicate "no".

Answer 3

Hi Mat,

To run a manual test in a machine via MTM, you need MTM installed on the machine.

Regards,

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Lily Wu [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 4

If you want to do manual testing on a Win8 device, see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2011/09/21/manual-testing-tools-for-windows-8-metro-style-applications.aspx

You could run tests in a lab environment also http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee518930.aspx