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Please join Microsoft and Northwest Cadence for this free half-day session designed to introduce you to the quality tools of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010.
Session Overview

Learn how Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) coupled with ALM tooling will help organizations build quality into their lifecycle. Many of the great features of Visual Studio Team System 2010 will help you break down organizational walls between your developers and testers. Get better software with Visual Studio Team System 2010. Period. Come see how!
This event is geared towards both non-technical and technical testers, developers, project managers, QA managers, and others interested in improving the quality of your code.
Session Topics

• Understanding the Visual Studio Team System Quality Tools
  Tour the quality tools available in VSTS 2010, including Test Case Management, Bug Tracking, Test Cases and the new Microsoft Test and Lab Manager interface. See how VSTS 2010 can provide traceability from requirements to code, test runs, bugs, tested environments and code.
• Running Test Cases & Filing Bugs
  We will show you how to use the Test Runner to run manual tests against a particular test environment, take screenshots, and file a series of bugs. All this while automatically recording a video of your test being completed? We will show you how!
• Fixing the Bug (Developer)
  Learn how Historical Debugging is a new feature of VSTS 2010 that you will not want to miss! Learn how to simply reproduce filed bugs using Historical Debugging, enabling you to break down the biggest wall separating developers and testers.
• Automating a Regression Test
  Find out how to turn a manual test into an automated regression test. You can even schedule it to run during an automated build!
• Creating a New Test Plan
  Join us as we create a new test plan, showing you how to set up Data Collectors for the computers in your environment, define the various test environment combinations, and map relationships between test cases and requirements.
• Rounding Out Your Knowledge
  Understand the more advanced features of VSTS 2010 including Lab Manager, Test Controllers and Agents, and the numerous quality reports that can guide an effective development process.

Location:
Microsoft Corporation
333 South Grand Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90071

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