Assuring Quality Using Azure Test Plans
Azure DevOps provides a set of cloud-hosted tools that software development teams can use as an end-to-end solution to deliver value in the form of working software. Azure Test Plans enable a team to plan, track, and assess quality throughout the entire development effort. This one day course will demonstrate how an agile team can configure and use Azure Test Plans to effectively assure quality in web and desktop applications. To maximize learning, students will work in teams, in a common Azure DevOps project, on a common case study.
Who should take this class?
This course is appropriate for all members of a software development team, especially those who are actively involved in defining, assuring, and increasing the overall quality of their software product. This course will also provide value for individuals outside the development team (managers, Scrum Masters, coaches, and other stakeholders) who want hands-on exposure to the capabilities of Azure Test Plans.
Benefits
This course provides several learning objectives and benefits
- Experience how Azure DevOps supports software testing
- Configure an Azure DevOps project to support testing
- Understand Azure Test Plans licensing
- Convert acceptance criteria into acceptance tests
- Visualize and manage testing work in Azure DevOps
- Organize tests into test plans, suites, and configurations
- Import and export tests
- Manually testing web and desktop applications
- Experience exploratory testing
Outline
1. Test Case Management
- Defining and maintaining quality
- Acceptance criteria and acceptance testing
- Azure DevOps Services overview
- Azure Boards overview
- Configuring an Azure DevOps project for testing
- Planning and running tests during a sprint
- Charts, reports, and notifications
- Extending Azure Test Plans
- Hands-on
2. Test Planning
- Test case management
- Creating test plans and test suites
- Creating and using configurations
- Creating and managing test cases
- Using parameters and shared steps
- Importing and exporting test artifacts
- Managing test cases with the Grid View
- Hands-on
3. Running Tests
- Azure Test Runner
- Testing a web application
- Testing multiple times with different data
- The Test & Feedback extension
- Capturing screenshots and video
- Reporting a bug during testing
- Using and interpreting the Progress Report
- Viewing and charting a test run
- Exploratory testing overview
- Performing exploratory testing
- Creating a test case while exploring
- Using Azure Test Runner to test a desktop app
- Regression testing
- Hands-on
Required Prerequisites
Having some experience with software testing is recommended.
