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Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 released–new set of Testing capabilities

| Wednesday, November 17, 2010
I am very happy to announce that we have just released Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2 – which extends the Visual Studio 2010 product with a great set of capabilities – this time in the area of Testing. As you know, we have adopted a concept of feature pack releases which enhance and complement the capabilities we released with the Visual Studio 2010 product earlier in the year. These feature packs are available to MSDN subscribers only, and can now be downloaded from the MSDN accounts.

The first feature pack we had released was focused on code visualization and modeling feature. Feature Pack 2 is focused on enhancing the testing capabilities! The feature packs are cumulative – so, Feature Pack 2 will also include the modeling capabilities from Feature Pack 1. The Feature pack setup will ask you to install a pre-requisite QFE that contains the product changes necessary for the new capabilities.

There are three capabilities included in this release:

  • Testing Silverlight Applications
  • Recorded test playback on Firefox
  • A Coded UI Test editor

Testing Silverlight Applications

Testing of Silverlight 4 applications has now become much easier with Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2. From Microsoft Test Manager, you can now capture action recording of your manual tests of Silverlight 4  applications and fast forward it in future iterations of the test case.  When a developer is creating a Silverlight 4 application, he needs to ensure that it is test-ready. He can do this by adding a conditional reference to the Silverlight UI Automation Helper assembly. The new Silverlight 4 Test Package then establishes a connection between the Silverlight application hosted in Internet Explorer and the Visual Studio UI Test Framework. This connection is used to identify properties of Silverlight Controls.  Using this infrastructure, Microsoft Test Manager can now capture intent aware action recording on Silverlight applications.

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