Visual Studio Team System - Testing General FAQ

Question

I am excited to announce the availability of the following FAQ paper which lists some of the questions frequently asked by the VSTS - Testing forum members. This paper has covered many parts of testing tools from unit test to UI test to code coverage, etc. Although it’s far from complete, but this is the first attempt our forum support team has been trying to make to help development community members find the answers to their questions much easier and fast, and it’s always the top priority for our team to make the MSDN forum a good place for developers to ask questions, talk about technologies etc. With time goes on, this thread will be enhanced with more FAQs and content, so you really welcome and appreciate any feedback or suggestion on how to improve it.

 

For FAQ about Web test and Load test, see here.

 

Contents

 

1.      How do I use Visual Studio 2008 to do automated UI test?

2.      How do I debug a unit test from a command line with mstest.exe?

3.      Why does the same code work well outside a unit test but fail in it?

4.      How do I perform unit tests with database files like excel, csv file?

5.      How do I execute a specific test in a test project dll from the Command-Line?

6.      What is the execution order of several unit tests in one run?

7.      Why does the code coverage result window show "code coverage not enabled for this test run" after you run tests?

8.      How do I collect code coverage data from Web tests in Visual Studio 2008?

9.      How do I collect code coverage data from manual tests?

10.  How do I resolve the issue when a test fails with the error message ‘Test run exceeded the specified timeout of 1800 seconds’?

11.  How do I debug while running a test in asp.net solution?

12.  How do I add Excel Spreadsheet as data source to a data-driven unit test?

13.  How do I create a customized manual test template?

14.  How do I implement sync point for unit test whiling running load test?

15.  What are the differences between method marked with [ClassInitialize()], [TestInitialize()], [ClassCleanup()] and [TestCleanup()] in unit test?

 

Answer 1

Do you have anything that covers execution of database unit tests (from VS2010 DB Tools) using mstest.exe in a Continuous integration (CI) environment?

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Answer 2

Can you publish FAQ for the VSTS2010 testing tool

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Sarveshk

Answer 3

Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 is really powerful tool for load testing

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Himanshu Mehta