Pro Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2012, Second Edition

CHAPTER 21

Manual Testing

Great quality does not happen by itself. We need to build quality into the process to get great results. The pillars of ALM (traceability, visibility, and automation of processes) should be part of the testing effort to give us predictable quality in our projects.

In this chapter we look at how Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) can be used to manage the testing process. But before we dive into the details of working with MTM, let’s take a look at what we mean by a testing process. In Figure 21-1 we have an example of a common model for testing.

Figure 21-1.  A manual testing process

First we start with planning, this ...