Microsoft Test Manager – Test Plan Configurations

If you need to test against different test configurations you are going to love Microsoft Test Manager.

Test Configurations are different setups that any application requires testing against. Example: Microsoft Test Manager would have been tested against different operating systems like XP, Vista, or Windows7. A web application may require testing against different browsers like IE7, IE8, Fire Fox, Chrome or Safari.

The ability to set up test configurations is only limited to your needs. One of the best features is the ability of Microsoft Test Manager to simulate a duplication of test cases for test configurations assigned to a test plan for test runs only.

It does require management to some extend however;

  • it does save your team time in creating duplicate test cases or excel spreadsheets of what configurations will or have been tested.
  • it is only really one instance of the test case so an changes affect all instances in the test run.
  • the test plan documents what configurations will been tested and by which test cases.

There is significant savings to the test team for this feature to be one of the top.

Test Plan – test case shows once only.

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Test tab >Run Tests – test case is shown for each test configuration set up in our test plan.

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Over the next few blogs I will tell you more about Test Configurations and how they affect test cases and test runs.

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