There are lots of new testing features added to Visual Studio 2012 particularly the coded UI testing, manual testing using the Test Manager Standalone tool. The manual testing is very well structured with lot of options and is handled separately using the MTM tool. The MTM tool contains Testing Center and Lab Center, which helps us to maintain the test cases, test configurations, and testing environments required to simulate actual user load to test the application performance. This chapter provides the high-level information on the tools and techniques available and the new techniques added to Visual Studio 2012. Each of these testing techniques is explained in detail in the coming chapters with detailed examples.

The next chapter explains the details of maintaining the test cases by creating Test Plan, Test Suites, and then the test cases themselves. Action recording and creating test cases for manual tests is also covered in detail in the next chapter.