Getting Started with Microsoft Test Manager
Microsoft Test Manager is the part of the TFS ecosystem that helps you test your application. Test Cases are organised in to Test Suites which are all contained in a Test Plan. There's a wealth of automated capability for taking some of the drudgery out of manual testing and all manner of features for analysing and managing test results. That's only about 5% of what it does so be sure to check out these resources to learn about the full breadth of what MTM can do:
- Microsoft Test Manager Homepage
- Microsoft Test Manager Forum on MSDN
- Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Jump Start
- Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (requires Pluralsight subscription)
- Microsoft Test Manager 2013 (requires Pluralsight subscription)
- Testing your application using Microsoft Test Manager
- Test Release Management Guidance
- Guidance for Creating Test Plans and Test Suites
- Software Testing with Microsoft Test Manager 2012 and Lab Management 2012
- Climbing the Agile Testing Ladder featuring Visual Studio 2013, TFS 2013, Microsoft Test Manager 2013, and Lab Management 2013
One thing to be aware of is that Team Web Access (the browser component of TFS) has a growing number of test features available directly in the browser. In some sitations that may be all you need See here for just one article that has more details.
Cheers -- Graham
