Microsoft Silverlight Books

Useful, but poorly written

I just finished reading the Sw testing with VSTS 2008 book and although it gave me a step by step instructions on how to perfrom the testing using VSTS2008, I feel a bit dissapointed. The book seems to follow a very traditional software development process thinking and won't tak e.g. agile development into account. Also the english is quite bad which makes the book a bit boring to read. If your looking for a complete book on how to test using VSTS2008 and you need instructions that walk you through the testing step by step, then this book might suite you.

Juhola Tomi
30 August, 2009

Good enough but need an advanced version

The book is good enough to guide people to start their first Testing with VS Team System. Easy to follow and straightforward. However, more advanced topics should be added or covered in order to satisfy power users especially most testing scenarios do need more manipulations than just clicking on web sites. I have to do lots of trial and error to make my test cases work, but the book is a good reference on the basic.

H. Hauw
06 July, 2009

Software Testing with VSTS 2008 by Subashni S. falls short

Software Testing with VSTS 2008 by Subashni S. & N. Satheesh Kumar falls far short of another book on Software Testing with VSTS 2005 by Wrox Publishing. Software Testing with VSTS 2008 had several "Read Me" files, all of which were empty. Files as provided for download did not work without at all without much tweaking, in fact, more tweaking than was worthwhile. Contacted author and publisher, all to no avail - response I got was: "It worked on my machine."

Professional Software Testing with Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Tools for Software Developers and Test Engineers (Programmer to Programmer) by Tom Arnold, Dominic Hopton, Andy Leonard, and Mike Frost at least would get responses and replies to emails with questions to authors - still a better buy even though written for 2005 rather than 2008.

Steven L. Shippee
11 April, 2009

Quite incomplete, yet quite insulting

This product is not worth its asking price. Use the web to find your answers. I have gone thru the book and it has not helped me much compared to google.

A "Comprehensive and concise guide" should not skip out on the many things it does, yet it does anyway. And it also spends too much time explaining the most obvious things. Code samples are oddly scarce. Never had a book say so much yet say so little.

Zachry D. Baker
02 April, 2009

Great reference for every development team!

Another book review, this time for Packt's "Software Testing with Visual Studio Team System 2008" (http://www.packtpub.com/software-testing-with-visual-studio-team-system-2008/book). The book introduces you to the main types of testing available in Visual Studio Team System 2008 for both desktop and web applications, and then walks you through deploying, running, and interpreting the results of tests.

The book starts with an overview of why you need testing and then lists all available test types in Visual Studio 2008. It also explains the differences between a stand alone Visual Studio 2008 and a Team Foundation Server backed version. Each chapter thereafter covers one of the test types in detail: unit tests, web tests, advanced web tests, load tests, manual tests, ...

Next to these things, more information on how to deploy and run tests on a VSTS build server is provided. And when you work with a VSTS build server, chances are big reporting is enabled. These reports are also covered in detail, showing you how to interpret the data displayed.

I've been working with and giving training on Visual Studio 2008 for quite a while now, including a large part on Visual Studio and testing. To be honest, I think this book really covers all aspects of testing in Visual Studio 2008, making it an ideal reference for any development team working with VSTS.

Maarten Balliauw
02 February, 2009