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 Easily capture data-driven test iterations on your first pass using Microsoft Test Runner. Click to enlarge. |
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Top Ten Benefits
Collaborate Effectively across Teams
Work more closely with your development team. Project artifacts are stored in a central repository that facilitates in-context collaboration by reducing waste in hand-off time between tasks. With development and test processes streamlined through integrated tools, you can focus on delivering value over transitioning information between roles.
Rich, Actionable Bugs for Developers
Automatically capture extensible and rich diagnostic information like IntelliTrace logs, indexed videos and screenshots for each new bug. When used with Visual Studio Lab Management 2010, environment snapshots can be attached to bugs enabling developers to connect to the test environment. Now you can effectively reduce the effort consumed in the endless game of “bug Ping-Pong”, making the “no-repro” discussion a thing of the past.
Automate Your Repetitive Tasks
Easily capture data-driven test iterations on your first pass using Microsoft Test Runner. Use Fast Forward for Manual Testing to quickly navigate to the right places within your test cases to continue verification steps in subsequent passes. Accelerate your testing cycle further by utilizing share steps throughout your test plan.
More Test Coverage with Exploratory Testing
Focus your time and energy on discovering complex bugs through exploratory testing. Test Professional 2010 allows you to file exploratory bugs equally rich to those discovered through controlled test plans. Create test cases directly from exploratory bugs with action logs automatically filled in.
Built-In Test Prioritization Tools
With a built-in capability to collect Test Impact data, you can access a list of recommended tests due to code changes and know which bugs are addressed in a given build. Now you can drive the right decision about when to pick up a new build, greatly reducing wasted time and effort.
Take Control of Your Work Items
Work in a task-driven manner using Microsoft Test Manager 2010 to maintain your plan-test-track workflow. You can even use Microsoft Excel or a browser to view lists of test cases. Flexible architecture allows customizing and workflow control of bugs, user stories, tasks and requirements to map to your desired processes with options like default values, string pattern matching, dependent pick lists, and rules.
Full Visibility into Your Test Progress
Utilize Microsoft BI tooling like Excel, Reporting Services and SharePoint for rich, detailed and interactive progress and status reports. Powerful reporting and dashboards provide insight and visibility into overall project health and historical trending. Plus, real-time quality metrics and leading indicators like Bug Find/Fix Rate, Code Coverage and Test Pass Rate provide early warnings of potential problems so you can proactively address them.
Virtual Lab Management Made Simple
Integrated with Lab Management 2010, Test Professional 2010 helps significantly reduce the cost of setting up, configuring, provisioning and maintaining complex multi-machine test environments. Easily and rapidly provision virtual environments at a known clean state. Lab Management 2010 lets you have more test cycles per machine while ensuring predictable build-deploy-test workflows.
End-to-End Traceability
User stories and requirements can be easily accessed through Team Explorer, which lets you trace them from birth through implementation to testing and onto release. Team Explorer also serves as your single launch point for cross-subject area reporting, allowing you to view links from test cases to user stories or requirements.
MSDN Subscription Included
MSDN Subscriptions are a convenient way to cost-effectively develop applications on the Microsoft platform with a simple licensing model and broad high quality information resources.
Visual Studio 2010 Feature Comparison
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Debugging & Diagnostic | ||||
IntelliTrace (Historical Debugger) |  | |||
Static Code Analysis | | | ||
Code Metrics | | | ||
Profiling | | | ||
Testing | ||||
Unit Testing | | | | |
Code Coverage | | | ||
Test Impact Analysis | | | ||
Coded UI Test | | | ||
Web Performance Testing | | |||
Load Testing1 | | |||
Microsoft Test Manager 2010 | | | ||
Test Case Management2 | | | ||
Manual Test Execution | | | ||
Fast-Forward for Manual Testing | | | ||
Lab Management Configuration3 | | | ||
Database Development | ||||
Database Deployment | | | ||
Database Change Management2 | | | ||
Database Unit Testing | | | ||
Database Test Data Generation | | | ||
Development Platform Support | ||||
Windows Development | | | | |
Web Development | | | | |
Office and SharePoint Development | | | | |
Cloud Development | | | | |
Customizable Development Experience | | | | |
Architecture and Modeling | ||||
Architecture Explorer | | |||
UML 2.0 Compliant Diagrams (Activity, Use Case, Sequence, Class, Component) | | |||
Layer Diagram and Dependency Validation | | |||
Read-only diagrams (UML, Layer, DGML Graphs) | | |||
Lab Management | ||||
Virtual environment setup & tear down3 | | | ||
Provision environment from template3 | | | ||
Checkpoint environment3 | | | ||
Team Foundation Server | ||||
Version Control2 | | | | |
Work Item Tracking2 | | | | |
Build Automation2 | | | | |
Team Portal2 | | | | |
Reporting & Business Intelligence2 | | | | |
Agile Planning Workbook2 | | | | |
Test Case Management2 | | | | |
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 | | | | |
MSDN Subscription - Software for Production Use | ||||
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 | | | | |
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 CAL | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Microsoft Expression Studio 3 | | | ||
Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate, Communicator 2007, Project 2007 Standard, Visio 2007 Professional, SharePoint Designer 2007 | | | ||
MSDN Subscription - Software for Development and Test Use4 | ||||
Windows Azure™ |
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Windows (client and server operating systems) | | | | |
Microsoft SQL Server | | | | |
Toolkits, Software Development Kits, Driver Development Kits | | | | |
Microsoft SharePoint | | | ||
Microsoft Dynamics | | | ||
All other Servers | | | ||
Windows Embedded operating systems | | | ||
MSDN Subscription benefits | ||||
Team Explorer Everywhere (tools for cross-platform development) | | |||
Technical support incidents | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
Priority support in MSDN Forums | | | | |
Microsoft e-learning collections | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
MSDN Magazine | | | | |
MSDN Flash newsletter | | | | |
MSDN Online Concierge | | | | |
† Azure benefit includes 250 compute hrs/mo, 7.5 GB storage, 3 GB SQL Server database capacity, 1M .NET messages/month
†† Azure benefit includes 100 compute hrs/mo, 5 GB storage, 2 GB SQL Server database capacity, 500k .NET messages/month
††† Azure benefit includes 50 compute hrs/mo, 3 GB/mo storage, 1GB SQL Server database capacity, 300k .NET messages/month
1. May require one or more Microsoft Visual Studio Load Test Virtual User Pack 2010
2. Requires Team Foundation Server and a Team Foundation Server CAL
3. Requires Microsoft Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010
4. Per-user license allows unlimited installations and use for designing, developing, testing, and demonstrating applications.
UML is a registered trademark of Object Management Group, Inc.
Windows is either a registered trademark or trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Make a sustainable impact to software quality with Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 , the integrated testing toolset that delivers a complete plan-test-track workflow.