VSTS : Testing with Visual Studio .NET 2005 Team System UK Classes & Lessons (Microsoft .NET)

About this class

Visual Studio.NET 2005 is the latest version of the flagship rapid development environment from Microsoft.NET applications and web services can be deployed to, and used by, many platforms from desktop to mobile. A key feature of .NET is support for multiple programming languages, particularly C# (C Sharp) and VB.NET.

The C# course will contain a substantial amount of Hands-On work. Delegates will be introduced to topics during theory sessions and these will be followed by lab exercises relating to the topic. Delegates will work on exercises using C# language within the Visual Studio.NET development environment. Exercises will reflect commercial scenarios.

Who will the lesson benefit?

Developers and project managers who need to gain practical experience in using the Testing elements of Visual Studio .NET Team Suite.

What delegates will learn

This is a hands-on course for developers/Project Managers. Visual Studio .NET Team Suite provides an Integrated Development Environment for developing Application from Architecture through to Testing. This course focuses on the Testing capabilities within this environment. Exercises will be used throughout to illustrate these capabilities. The course will first focus on the need for testing and the various approaches and benefits of providing testing at various stages of a projects lifetime.

What prerequisites are required

Background in development with a .NET language (e.g. C#)

Contents of this class

Introduction

Why test?
Approaches to testing
What is Xtreme programming
Visual Studio .NET support for Testing

Visual Studio .NET

Test Manager
Test View
Creating Test Projects
Test Configuration
Viewing Results
Publishing Results

Test Projects

Unit Test
Manual Test
Ordered Test
Load Test
Web Test

Writing Tests

VisualStudio.QualityTools
Testing Attributes
Initialising Unit Tests
Assert members
Test and Exceptions
Tests and Reflection

Test Effectiveness

Code Coverage
Coverage Statistics