Test Run: Configuration Testing With Virtual Server, Part 1

Because Virtual Server is built upon a set of COM modules, you can automate the creation and testing of virtual machines. Here we use Windows PowerShell to run the tests.

Dr. James McCaffrey and Paul Despe

MSDN Magazine December 2008

Efficient testing can require many different machine and server configurations but the effort needed to manage these test environments can take a toll. Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 simplifies the provisioning and management of testing environments. This article demonstrates how the extensive Virtual Server COM API can be used to create an automated application testing environment to make your testing chores a whole lot easier.

Ben Waldron

MSDN Magazine August 2004

Fault injection testing is the process of deliberately inserting an error into an application to determine whether it deals with the error properly. We'll explain how you can introduce faults into .NET applications at run time using the Managed Code Fault Injection APIs of the TestApi library

James McCaffrey

MSDN Magazine August 2010

Silverlight greatly simplifies the process of building rich Web applications, and we'll walk through an example of using Messages as a quick method of interactively testing simple Silverlight apps.

James McCaffrey

MSDN Magazine March 2010

There are many ways to test WCF services, but the socket-based approach is flexible and very useful for security and performance testing. We show you show you how to test a WCF service using a network socket based approach.

James McCaffrey

MSDN Magazine February 2010

In this month's column, James McCaffrey explains exactly what pairwise testing is and provides you with complete C# source code for a production quality pairwise testing tool named QICT.

James McCaffrey

MSDN Magazine December 2009

This column presents an approach to Antirandom (AR) testing the author calls partial AR string testing, which can be used to test a wide range of software systems.

James McCaffrey

MSDN Magazine October 2009

This month we show you how to use F# to perform HTTP request-response testing for ASP.NET Web applications.

James McCaffrey

MSDN Magazine July 2009

This month we demonstrate how easy it is to use IronPython to test .NET-based libraries.

James McCaffrey

MSDN Magazine June 2009