The Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 suite contains several features that support the needs of developers, testers, managers, and architects to simplify the development process. Visual Studio provides different editions of the products such as Professional, Premium, and Ultimate with different sets of tools. Visual Studio 2010 is tightly integrated with Team Foundation Server 2010, which is the central repository system that provides version control, process guidance and templates, automated build, automated test, bug tracking, work item tracking, reporting, and supporting of the Lab Center and Test Center.

This book helps developers to get familiarized with the Visual Studio tools and techniques to create automated unit tests, using automated user interface testing, code analysis, and profiling to find out the performance and quality of the code. Testers benefit from learning more about the usage of Test Center and Lab Center, which are very new tools in Visual Studio 2010. This books also covers different types of testing such as Web Performance Test, Load Test, Executing the Manual Test cases, and recording the user actions, rerunning the tests using the recording, Test case execution, and capturing the defects and integrating the requirements, test cases, test results, and defects together is also covered in detail. Testers also get a high level overview on using Lab Center for creating virtual environments for testing multiple users and multiple location scenarios.

Visual Studio provides user interface tools such as Test List Editor, Test View, Test Results, Test Configuration user interfaces, Test Center, and Lab Center to easily manage and maintain multiple test cases, and Test Results in integration with Team Foundation Server. This book provides detailed information on all of the tools used for testing the application during the development and testing phase of the project life cycle.