Professional Software Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Tools for Software Developers and Test Engineers (Programmer to Programmer) (Paperback)

~ Tom Arnold (Author), Dominic Hopton (Author), Andy Leonard (Author), Mike Frost (Author)
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Product Description

• Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) features a robust, integrated suite of test tools that work seamlessly in the Visual Studio development environment
• Covering all phases of the development lifecycle, this book shows readers how to implement best practices for software testing using the appropriate components of VSTS
• Readers will learn how to use the tools effectively, directly from those who helped design and develop the software
• Shows how to catch common programming mistakes every time code is compiled, helping to shorten the time to market

From the Back Cover

With the introduction of Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS), Microsoft for the first time offers software developers and test engineers a complete and integrated suite of tools for software testing. This authoritative book shares with you best practices for software testing using VSTS test and development tools and covers all phases of the development lifecycle so that you may learn how to implement these practices.

Written by key members of the team that developed the VSTS test anddevelopment tools, this essential resource offers a no-nonsense introduction to using the tools the way they were meant to be used. The authors walk you through the overall user interface of the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers and Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers. You'll explore each of the available test types and learn how to effectively use the code analysis and dynamic analysis tools to quickly become effective as a software developer or test engineer.

What you will learn from this book

• Load Test your applications, potentially with thousands of simulated users, and leverage new and existing automated tests

• Create Web Tests by recording interactions with web applications and (optionally) render those tests to your favorite .NET language

• Test your database back-end's design and integrity using unit tests

• Incorporate data-driven testing into your automated tests to enhance your testing library

Who this book is for

This book is for software developers and test engineers who want to understand best practices for using VSTS test and development tools. Experience with Visual Studio is recommended.

Wrox Professional guides are planned and written by working programmers to meet the real-world needs of programmers, developers, and IT professionals. Focused and relevant, they address the issues technology professionals face every day. They provide examples, practical solutions, and expert education in new technologies, all designed to help programmers do a better job.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 408 pages
• Publisher: Wrox; Pap/Onl edition (September 11, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470149787
• ISBN-13: 978-0470149782
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #549,079 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great tools!!, September 2, 2007

By	Valerie Winterholler (oregon) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What a fantastic book!! It has helped my software developers and test engineers to better utilize all the tools available to them! The authors are articulate and knowledgeable of the subject. Highly reccomended late night reading!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Software Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System, January 28, 2008

By	Steven L. Shippee (Olympia, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

The previous reviews I read about this book gave great praise. And all that they said is true, the book is well written, clear, concise, and easy to understand - with rich wonderful hands on examples and source code. A wonderful entry into the Microsoft offerings of testing right along with software development.

What makes this an even better buy or value added product is that if there is an issue with why things work (or don't work the way they should) the author(s) will follow up with you in an attempt to clear up any misunderstandings.

Not only is it a very good read, the authors can and do add additional value to the book long after it has been paid for - should there be any questions upon anything contained in the text - something that is very unusual in this realm or domain. I can not say enough about the quality of this book and the quality of the service one gets should they have a need to contact one of the authors - in my case it was Andy Leonard - who kept helping with something that wasn't even his issue - it was one of those undocumented Microsoft "features".

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is for both software developers and testers, September 5, 2007

By	T. Arnold (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Some coders may turn away from this book because it has "testing" in the title. Some test engineers who don't code may also waffle when they see source code examples written in C# included in the book.

This book truly caters to both programmers (developers and technical testers: unit testing, code coverage, dynamic analysis, static analysis / fx cop, profiling, unit testing against a database, data-driven testing, build verification testing) as well as testers without a programming background (recorded web testing, load testing, manual testing, test library management).

Because the line between programmer and tester becomes more difficult to define -- especially with today's software test engineers who are also hard core coders and developers who write their own test suites -- this book provides everything the programmer needs as well as everything the test engineer needs when looking to get started and utilize the incredible set of tools the team at Microsoft added into Visual Studio Team System.

(This book also explores how these tools are integrated into Team Foundation Server (including check-in policies, automated testing of builds, associating bugs and tests, and more) -- so in many cases, this book not only applies to testers and developers, it will also be of interest to technical program / project managers, dev managers and test managers).