May 27th, 2015 by inflectra
The client was initially unable to obtain a key for the trial (due to usability/navigation issues). At the end, the client managed to get a key to progress the installation of the software, which was completed.
The client of the application was unsure whether the product was either ‘Testing Centre’ or ‘Test Lab’. Apparently, the product is ‘Visual Studio Test Professional’ and the ‘Microsoft Test Manager’ is the application used to interact with TFS. MS Visual Studio Test Professional installs MS Test Manager and Visual Studio Team Explorer. The installation required a machine reboot.
From the front end, the client was unable to determine how to access applications Configuration Manager, from where the ‘Test’ parameters can be configured, including the addition of custom fields. The client consulted with an in-house subject matter expert who uses the defect module of the application. This user investigated the matter and was unable to help.
Using Google, the client tried to find some help online, the search results for: ‘how to configure visual studio test professional’, did not return specific information.
https://www.google.com.au/#q=how+to+configure+visual+studio+test+professional
Also, other search strings didn’t return useful results.
Similarly, the client was not sure how/if data can be exported from VS Test Pro To Excel, as well as the setup of automated notifications.
A Google search indicated that there are free tools that can be used to export test cases to excel for the purpose of getting testers to run the test cases in Excel then synch the results in VS Test Pro. However, there is no direct answer on how to export basic Excel spreadsheets from VS Test Pro. Also, there is no straight forward information available on how to setup notifications for Test Pro.
From brief exploratory testing of the VS Test Pro, although the VS is well established and strong on the development side, its ‘manual testing’ add-on did not yet mature to the same level, and/or just inflexible and not very intuitive, without readily available support material.
After all this work, the client had two options:
The client decided on Option 2 and used SpiraTeam.
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