After the release of Visual studio 2010, Microsoft Test Manager gained a lot of popularity and we heard a whole lot of feedback about the tool, both good and bad. We consolidated it and decided to fix the top items causing dissatisfaction to the MTM users, the top 3 being performance issues in MTM, multiline support for test steps and test data reduction. Below are the details of these and other improvements we did in Microsoft Test Manager in the Visual Studio 11 Beta release.
Significant performance gains in MTM
Improving the performance was a major ask from the Test Manager users and we have done a lot of investigations and work to make it better. The performance of scenarios (for both LAN and WAN connections) like connecting to a plan, displaying the tests inside a suite, starting testing inside test runner, saving bugs in test runner, listing of runs on the analyze runs activity, creation of lab environments has improved to a great extent.
Multi line support in test steps
This feature lets you add multiple line in the same test step with the use of ALT+ENTER key combinations, just like Excel. This can be particularly useful to consolidate all the related actions in a single line and proves very handy along with the rich text feature for test steps, described below. This was also part of an update released in September 2011.
Test Data reduction
