Richard Fennell : VSTS, Testing

New video on unit testing in VS2012 and TFS

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:23:34 GMT

A video has just be uploaded that I did on the new unit testing features in Visual Studio and TFS 2012. This is quick 10 minute introduction to some of the material I will be covering at DDDNorth next weekend . Hope you find it useful...(read more)

TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller – Part 2

But it works on my PC! — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:33:24 GMT

I posted last week on the problems I had had getting the test agents and controller in a TFS2012 Standard environment talking to each other and a workaround. Well after a good few email with various people at Microsoft and other consultants at Black Marble...(read more)

More on using the VS11 fake library to fake out SharePoint

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 05 May 2012 14:35:08 GMT

I recently posted on how you could use the new fakes tools in VS11 to fake out SharePoint for testing purposes. I received comments on how I could make my Shim logic easier to read so though I would revisit the post. This led me down a bit of a complex...(read more)

Unit testing in VS11Beta and getting your tests to run on the new TFSPreview build service

But it works on my PC! — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 20:23:00 GMT

One of my favourite new features in VS11 is that the unit testing is pluggable. You don’t have to use MSTest, you can use any test framework that an adaptor is available for (at the release of the beta this meant the list of framworks on Peter Provost...(read more)

More thoughts on Typemock Isolator, Microsoft Fakes and Sharepoint

But it works on my PC! — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 10:01:53 GMT

I posted yesterday on using Typemock and Microsoft Fakes with SharePoint . After a bit more thought I realised the key thing in using Typemock I found easier was the construction of my SPListItem dataset. Typemock allowed me to fake SPListItems and put...(read more)

Now that VS11 has a fake library do I still need Typemock Isolator to fake out SharePoint?

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:16:39 GMT

I have done posts in the past about how you can use Typemock Isolator to fake out SharePoint to speed design and testing . The reason you need special tooling, beyond standard mocking frameworks like Rhino or MOQ, is that SharePoint has many sealed...(read more)

Moving Environments between TPCs when using TFS Lab Management

But it works on my PC! — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:09:40 GMT

Background One area I think can be found confusing in TFS Lab Management is that all environments are associated with specific Team Projects (TP) within Team Project Collections (TPC). This is not what you might first expect if you think of Lab Management...(read more)

Debugging CodedUi Tests when launching test as a different user

But it works on my PC! — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:17:57 GMT

If you are working with CodedUI tests in Visual Studio you sometimes get unexpected results, such as the wrong field be selected in replays. When trying to work out what has happened the logging features are really useful. These are probably already switched...(read more)