{"id":2299,"date":"2018-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/deep-dive-into-azure-test-plans"},"modified":"2023-05-11T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T22:37:35","slug":"deep-dive-into-azure-test-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/deep-dive-into-azure-test-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Deep dive into Azure Test Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Azure Test Plans, a service launched with Azure DevOps<\/a> earlier this month, provides a browser-based test management solution for exploratory, planned manual, and user acceptance testing. Azure Test Plans also provides a browser extension for exploratory testing and gathering feedback from stakeholders.<\/p>\n

Manual and exploratory testing continue to be important techniques for evaluating quality of a product\/service, alongside the DevOps emphasis on automated testing. In modern software development processes, everybody in the team contributes to or owns quality – including developers, testers, managers, product owners, user experience advocates, and more. Azure Test Plans addresses all these needs. Let\u2019s take a closer look.<\/p>\n

Note: For automated testing as part of your CI\/CD workflow, consider leveraging Azure Pipelines<\/a>. It provides mechanisms for continuous build, test, and deployment to any platform and cloud.<\/p>\n

Testing is integral to DevOps and Agile teams<\/h2>\n

A common practice is to base tests on user stories, features, or scenarios that are managed on a Kanban board as in Azure Boards<\/a>. With Azure Test Plans, a team can leverage manual testing right from within their Kanban board. This provides end-to-end traceability<\/strong> because tests and defects are automatically linked to the requirements and builds being tested, which also helps you track the quality of the requirements.<\/p>\n

Add, view, and interact with test cases directly from the cards on the Kanban board, and progressively monitor status directly from the card. Developers and testers can use this capability to maximize quality within their teams.<\/p>\n

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Quality is a team sport through exploratory testing<\/h2>\n

Exploratory testing is an approach to software testing that is described as simultaneous learning, test design and test execution. It complements planned testing by being completely unscripted yet being driven by themes\/tours. Quality becomes a shared responsibility as exploratory testing can be leveraged by all team members including developers, testers, managers, product owners, user experience advocates, and more. Watch a short video<\/a> of how this works.<\/p>\n

The Test & Feedback<\/a> extension enables exploratory testing techniques in Azure Test Plans. It allows you to spend more time finding issues, and less time filing them. Using the extension is simple:<\/p>\n