Can TFS 2012 compile a VS 2010 solution file? (not connecting to a TFS 2010 Agent)
Thanks!
Yes you can compile, Build Agent execute exactly with same mode, you have news just about executiong of unit tests on your integration (If you have unit tests), on 2012 we use Test Runner layer and not Ms Test, you can have different behavior about this subject (These news don't affect compiling process)
nice link : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/buckh/archive/2013/03/30/team-foundation-server-2012-update-2-supports-2010-build-agents-and-controllers.aspx
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Management is looking into automated testing. Our QA Lead would like to know what if any automated test tools are shipped with Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise and Team Foundation Server 2012.
From what I am reading, MS offers a Suite of Tools as a separate Product called Test Studio. From what I can gather, there is nothing in Visual Studio itself or TFS itself to perform automated tests. Is this correct?
Won't they need Test Studio for this? Or HP if they want to look at other vendors...
Manage your team’s code, build and test your apps, and plan and track your team’s work these can be achieved with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server on your own server.
However, for test in TFS. TFS itself won't shipped with Test Automation tools. TFS use Microsoft Test Manager, a separate Team Foundation client, lets you manage and execute test cases and create and manage physical or virtual environments. It installs with select Visual Studio editions.
Testing tools with VS
Visual Studio will include many powerful testing Tools and Services such as Load testing ,Continuous testing in DevOps,Manual testing,Exploratory testing,User acceptance testing,Unit testing and IDE... More details please refer Testing Tools and Services
If you want to quickly get started, here is also a help link Get started with developer testing tools
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If you need an overall Test solution, suggest you to use Visual Studio Test Professional
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I am using Microsoft Test Manager 2010, and we are upgrading to TFS 2015.
Question: is it full compatible because we have project, tc, and other items already working.
I see that only need to install GDR : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2736182 for VS 2010.
But is this only thing what we need to do ? There is no actualy answer on :
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/TFS/administer/requirements#ClientcompatibilityVisualStudio
Will I have the supported platforms and configurations from Microsoft Test Manager 2010 for connecting, making builds for automated tests etc...
Thank you in advance.
Yes MTM 2010 will work with TFS 2015. Obviously you won't be able to use the new testing features though, such as exploratory tests in the 2010 client.
I have build scripts which work with 2010.
Will these work with 2013 build controller?
TFS 2010 Build Controller and Build Agents work with TFS 2013. If you're concerned about compatibility, you can just leave your build servers running the 2010 Build components.
The XAML Build templates are platform specific and will only work with their version of TFS.
If you have MS Build scripts or use another make platform scripts then you should be able to call them from any platform.
You can always as Dylan sugests continue to use your 2010 controllers.
I'm leaning toward using MSTest as unit testing framework for a new project but I'm concerned with cutting off developers (maybe even myself in the future and/or in some specific environment) using Express editions of Visual Studio.
I know MSTest wasn't available in VS2008 Express but with Microsoft pushing unit testing in recent years I guess they could've added it to VS2010 Express. However I couldn't find any info on this in the list of Express features and I don't want to download and install express just to verify this.
So, is MSTest supported in Visual Studio 2010 Express?
It does not appear in Microsoft's list of features of Visual Studio Express 2010, and it would appear (according to this blog post) that it is not supported. Since express editions do not allow add-ins, you cannot even use something like TestDriven.net to run tests from within Visual Studio Express editions.
If you were to use NUnit for testing, you may get more mileage. That blog post shows a way of running/debugging NUnit tests using a bootstrapper, but an easier way is to set NUnit as the start action (in Project Properties -> Start External Program), and then passing the name of your dll as an argument. This will start and run NUnit when you run/debug your project, allowing you launch your tests from within Visual Studio, and also debug them if needed.
I'd like to write some basic tests for our web and Winforms applications.
I already own Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate. Do I also need TFS in order to use the new CodedUI tests?
No you don't need to have TFS in order to use Coded UI tests. You can create your tests in Visual Studio and run them direct from there, or via mstest. The main benefit TFS will add is the ability to execute tests across multiple physical and virtual tests machines via Test Manager. You will also get central collation of test results in the TFS repository.
No, you don't need TFS. Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate is quite enough to record and launch codedUI tests.