First drop of "TMap for VS2010" available on Codeplex
A structured test management process template for VS2010…
Still a lot to do to get it at the quality level we want, but this is a preview and as I call it… for discussion purpose only.
The planning is to get it somewhere next week at a level we can call it beta and ready for us within projects [we want to get RTM when VS2010 gets the RTM state].
The best way to get started, to get familiar with TMap and the process template for VS2010 is to take a look at the documentation. The documentation behind the template contains an almost completely filled wiki, how to execute a high quality test management approach with VS2010. Also the main reason it was that quiet on this blog lately, I created more then hundred pages of content in the documentation section of the CodePlex site. [which also can be downloaded for onsite guidance]
The actually process template is connected with this wiki and specific work items and work streams redirect to the specific topic.
Feel free to leave any comment you want, but don’t forget its work in progress there are still numbers of holes in the template, the guidance, the reports and so on…
location: TMap.CodePlex.com
VSTS 2010 TMap Process Template 1,2 and 3
As probably everybody already know, Microsoft is going to deliver a toolset for the tester with Visual Studio Team System 2010. If you didn’t know this, you can start by reading several previous posts on this blog, on Rob’s blog or on Bing. It’s not only going to support development testing or system testing but the whole stack of the testing practice including acceptance testing [manual testing].
This support for all the different test tasks by VSTS 2010, combined with the power of TFS 2010 to guide processes and Sogeti’s method for structured software testing ‘TMap’ is a major win to the application lifecycle. To get this structured software testing method ‘TMap’ into TFS2010 we made a process template.
Now it’s a bit useless to deliver a process template only for the testing practice, although there are situations where it can be used. But, mostly the conditions are that testing practices are executed during the software development lifecycle. This is a big challenge when offering a method for structured software testing, needs to fit the software development lifecycle.
This challenge is also in place with the Secure Development Lifecycle Process template. The SDL team made template for secure software development, what is really great, but actually every software development process should be secure. So secure processes should be merged with existing templates as Brian Harry writes in his post “The Microsoft SDL Process Template and the Future”
I think everyone understands that we don’t just want “one template for secure software development”
The same counts for testing. There is one big problem in this situation… process templates don’t merge very well. So, what we did to deliver TMap to VSTS2010 is creating more several templates.
First a standalone template. I know it’s useless in most situations, but for example when a customer want to manually test the application disconnected from the development team another situation where you can use a standalone template is in our test lines and StaaS offering, both situations where we are testing [manually] the application disconnected from the development environment, but with a TFS connection.
The second template delivery we made is a combined one. TMap processes combined with the In-the-box MSF/ CMM templates. Now I know nobody uses these templates without editing them. But, by providing a combined version people / companies who do a small edit on the existing [in-the-box ] templates can use these.
The last delivery is a bit more challenging and we didn’t finalize this one yet. We are delivering the XML so you can manually merge the TMap processes with your own template.
- Standalone TMap process Template.
- Combined TMap processes with the MSF Agile and CMM process templates.
- TMap processes merged with any existing templates.
Which one would you like to use?
[next post, what's in it…]
Rosario Video - Generate TestCases from ActivityDiagram
Played today with CommunityClips from Microsoft Office Labs...
I made a video from some work [in progress] with Rosario Team Architect and Team Test.
Actually, it was just meant to be for internal use only, but why not share it... [I'm so 2.0 
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These posts have some more additional information:
and these on Rob Kuijt's blog:
and this one: TMap Testing Use Cases
It wasn't that easy as I thought it would be to make these kind of video's. Anyway I have to practice more on that skill, still not that bad for the first time. Feel free to give any kind of comment.
In Soapbox it looks the same.
I have to do something about the quality. somebody any tips?
UPDATE: Added the WMV for better viewing...