Tim's Brown Bag Lunch

I borrowed the term “Brown Bag Lunch” from a former colleague of mine (Dirk Vangeison). The idea of the brown bag lunch is every month or so have a team member volunteer to host a 1 hour presentation over lunch (of course the attendees would bring their own lunch). Topics for a brown bag lunch might be design patterns, new technologies, SDLC, trouble shooting techniques, or new tools. It is a great way to transfer knowledge and really good way to develop presentation skills.

Saturday, September 19, 2009

Microsoft Test and Lab Manager. Test planning and execution.

I was the presenter at the Minnesota VSTS Users Group this week. The topics I discussed included; test planning and execution with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager, test impact analysis, coded UI testing, and historical debugger. You can get a PDF version of my slide deck here. I had a couple presentation gremlins when I was introducing the historical debugger so I added a couple new slides explaining the configuration necessary to get the behavior I was describing during the presentation.

The slides themselves will do little more than wet your appetite so I’ll do a series of posts and add some narration describing what we are seeing and how it fits into the QA process.

Part 1, Getting organized.

Part 2, Test planning

Part 3, Executing manual tests

Part 4, the test run.

Part 5, Test impact analysis.

I’ll cover the Coded UI test and Historical debugger elsewhere.