Tag: QA Testing

  • How Do You Add New Test Suites in Azure DevOps Test Plans?

    How Do You Add New Test Suites in Azure DevOps Test Plans?

    In Azure DevOps Test Plans (aka. Azure DevOps’s QA testing tools), Test Suites help you to keep your tests organized. But if you’re looking at your tests, it’s 0% obvious how to add a new Test Suite. Heck! You can’t even tell by looking that Test Suites even exist in the tool. So how do…

  • The Test & Feedback Extension for Azure DevOps: Supercharged QA Testing

    The Test & Feedback Extension for Azure DevOps: Supercharged QA Testing

    The post introduces the Test & Feedback extension for Azure DevOps Test Plans, highlighting its underutilization in quality assurance (QA) testing processes. The browser add-on helps streamline QA work by supporting task creation, detailed bug reporting, and exploratory testing. The extension is compatible with Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems and available for Chrome, Edge,…

  • QA Testing with Azure DevOps: What are Test Cases, Test Plans, and Test Suites?

    QA Testing with Azure DevOps: What are Test Cases, Test Plans, and Test Suites?

    Azure DevOps facilitates Quality Assurance (QA) testing with its Test Plans hub, allowing testers to organize their work with Test Cases, Test Plans, and Test Suites. Test Plans act as containers for testing efforts, while Test Suites, which can be Requirement-based, Query-based, or Static, organize Test Cases. This helps in maintaining an orderly approach to…

  • New Pluralsight Course: DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio and TFS 2017

    New Pluralsight Course: DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio and TFS 2017

    My latest Pluralsight course just went live last night.  It’s been a long time coming and a ton of work.  I hope you all like it. DevOps Skills for Developers with Visual Studio & TFS 2017 There’s a huge divide between software that’s developed and software that’s delivered. DevOps helps you bridge that divide. It’s…

  • How to Change a Test Configuration in the TFS Test Hub

    How to Change a Test Configuration in the TFS Test Hub

    If you’re using Team Foundation Server’s Test Hub for your QA testing effort, you’ve probably seen this annoyance.  All of your test cases say “Windows 8” in the Configuration column.  Windows 8?!? What is this? 2014?!  You’ll hit your next level of frustration about 20 seconds later when you find out that there’s no way…

  • Microsoft Test Manager is pretty much done. What’s missing and what do we do now?

    Microsoft Test Manager is pretty much done. What’s missing and what do we do now?

    Ok.  Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) isn’t going away but you might have noticed that it’s kind of been put out to pasture.  There were some good features – some core features – in MTM that were kind of helpful.  So what do you we do now?  If you’re on Team Foundation Server 2015 (TFS2015) what’s…

  • TFS Test Hub: What Does It All Mean?

    TFS Test Hub: What Does It All Mean?

    Ok.  So if you want to do QA testing — “manual testing” in Microsoftspeak — with Team Foundation Server (TFS) or Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), you’re going to spend a lot of time in the Test Hub.  The vast majority of QA/manual testing features have moved to the web interface as of TFS2015 and the Test Hub…