The Test Center and Lab Center have a few new additions in Test Manager 2012. Test Center is very useful in managing Test Plans, Test Suites, configurations, and test cases; running the tests; and creating and maintaining shared steps. Any Test Plan can be cloned as it is and then customized without modifying the original plan. Analyzing the Test Runs and verifying the test by re-running it can be very useful for the testers as there is no dependency and it can be done within the Testing Center itself. Queries are an added advantage to get the status and progress from Test Manager itself.

The Lab Center is very useful in creating and configuring multiple environments using the Physical and Virtual Machines and deploying the environments for testing purposes. All these tools work without the support of Visual Studio but do require a connection to the TFS. This helps the testers to have independent test tool to carry out all test activities.

With this chapter the book comes to an end. Overall, the chapters in this book started explaining the basics of testing, including multiple new features added to Visual Studio 2012 from its previous version. A couple of new features such as Coded UI test and exploratory testing are very good additions to Visual Studio 2012 and are also explained well in this book. The Test Manager is the standalone testing tool which is used for managing the Test Plan, Test Suites, and Test Cases, and Test Executions as well. Integrating Visual Studio 2012 with TFS and maintaining the configuration has also been explained, along with publishing the Test Results. Overall this book has covered the end-to-end testing of applications and managing the Test Results as well.