Effective Team Management with VSTS and TFS by Chaminda Chandrasekara & Sanjaya Yapa

Author:Chaminda Chandrasekara & Sanjaya Yapa
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Apress, Berkeley, CA

Testing the Work

Testing plays an important role in software development and you may want to use Test Driven Development (TDD) as well. Regardless of which process you use, testing is a key aspect of software development and should be done thoroughly to ensure your team delivers a quality project/product.

Your team can use unit tests to start development testing, aided by VSTS/TFS, which will provide code coverage. Your team can then integrate the unit tests with continuous integration builds (we discuss this later in the chapter) to automate the process as well as to help publish code coverage results the team can view ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/tasks/test/publish-code-coverage-results ). The extension in Visual Studio Marketplace comes with a dashboard widget for code coverage with a build ( https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=shanebdavis.code-coverage-dashboard-widgets ). We discuss dashboards later in this chapter.

It is possible to create test plans and test suites to organize the test cases your team develops related to backlog items. Your team can create static test suites, requirement-based test suites, and query-based test suites to organize the test plans. You can find a lot of useful information on this at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/manual-test/reference-qa . Your team can track test status as explained here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/manual-test/getting-started/track-test-status . When a test plan is executed, you can view the outcome graphically in the Test Runs tab of VSTS/TFS, as shown in Figure 3-8.

Figure 3-8Test outcome

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