Wely Lau

Last Tuesday, It’s a great pleasure to have a chance to share my experience with my classmates / master students in NTU who are taking the Software Testing and Performance Analysis Course. Thanks to Professor Schubert Foo for inviting me as guest speaker to share some practical and industrial experience which is associated with Software Testing and Performance Analysis matter. In a nutshell, Software Testing and Performance Analysis course covers about software test process and principle, test technique, computer-aided and automation testing tools, best practices, and case studies.

It’s an interesting course that combines theoretical and conceptual perspective as well as industrial practical experience. Because it’s pretty important to get some idea of practical software testing product, Professor Foo suggested me to share my experience when using VSTS, and I happily agreed.

Talking about computer-aided and automation testing tools, of course my favorite one is VSTS. While VSTS itself is actually a huge topic to talk, I try to trim and fit it with the course specifically on software testing and performance analysis.

As the result of the discussion with Professor Foo, on the the first part (which has been done on last Tuesday), I talked about VSTS Development Edition, how it could improve the software “code quality”. Since a lot of the students were not familiar with VSTS, so that I described VSTS briefly with a few screenshot slides. Subsequently, the core material took place which I did the demonstration about:

• Code Analysis: how it ensures developer to write a consistent, standard, and best practice code
• Code Metric: how it gives us a snapshot of our software health through five different metrics
• Profiling: how it helps developer to do performance investigation
• Unit Testing and Code Coverage: how it verifies the code produces something that it supposes to be

Most of the demo, I used Visual Studio 2008. However, I also highlighted the difference between VS 2008 and VS 2010 in term of Profiling which significantly create big impact in helping developer. For more detail, feel free to download my presentation slide here.

The followings are some of the photos taken by my buddy, Anthony. Thanks, Bro!

I think Professor Foo have done the recording as well. I’ll try to find it and put it at this blog if possible.

On the second part (next Tuesday, 9 March 2010), I’ll talk about VSTS Tester Edition, including Web Test, Load Test, Stress Test, etc.

Hope these helps  

Wely Lau

Microsoft MVP, Visual C#

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