You can tell the VS team has an appreciation for Test Studio
because they’ve went with our color scheme for the VS 2012’s artwork:
As you may already know Visual Studio 2012 is here. And the
answer to the question you’re probably asking yourself is:
“Yes, Telerik’s Test Studio fully
integrates with Visual Studio 2012”
That’s right – VS 2012 is now officially part of the Test
Studio-integrated family (alongside VS 2008 and VS 2010). Hooray!
Testing-wise the major change in Visual Studio 2012 is that Test
View is gone. Instead we have the Test Explorer. We recommend that you checkout
this
article. It will give you a good idea of how the Test Explorer is different
from its predecessor Test View and some of the cool new things it can do. It
took some tweaking in our code but Test Studio’s own test format (.tstest) is
now fully discoverable in VS 2012:
The concept of Test Lists is also absent. A degree of
backwards compatibility is maintained – you can still use your previously
created Test Lists. However, you are not allowed to put together brand new Test
Lists in VS 2012. Instead you will have to rely on the newly-introduced concept
of Test Categories. Test Categories seems akin to
having tags for your tests and executing them in groups based on those tags. We
can see some obvious advantages – you can, for instance, take a look at the
test and checkout which categories it belongs to.
Let us know what you think! The VS 2012 integration is
obviously still brand new and any feedback on what you, our customers, might
need and want will be highly appreciated.
About the author
Stoil Stoychev
Stoil Stoychev has been helping customers solve their complex testing challenges leveraging his in-depth knowledge of Telerik Test Studio. He has traveled the globe fine-tuning his technical expertise and helping our valued clients succeed. In his spare time he enjoys motorcycles, live music and various sports.