1. Virtualisation of the Test Environment
Richard Fennell Engineering Director, Black Marble
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2. Agenda The development cycle Virtualisation with Lab Management
Load Testing with Load Test Agent

3. Lab Management

4. What is our development cycle?
Developer writes code
Compile locally
Run unit tests locally
Check-in
Central Automated CI Build inc. running of unit tests
Automated Deploy to Test
Automated Integration tests
UAT/Human Test
Log Bugs/Change Requests

5. How does Visual Studio 2010 Help?

6. Team Foundation Server (TFS)
Lab Management
System Center Management Stack
Test Case management
Operations Manager
Virtualization Platform
Build management
Work Item Tracking
Hyper-V
Virtual Machine Manager
Source Control

7. How to Install TFS Lab Management
Install GDR patch to enable Lab Management (or Service pack 1)
Install a SCVMM Server
Install SCVMM Admin Console on TFS server
On SCVMM Server configure hosts and shares

9. How to Install TFS Lab Management
Install GDR patch to enable Lab Management (or Service pack 1)
Install a SCVMM Server
Install SCVMM Admin Console on TFS server
On SCVMM Server configure hosts and shares
Tell TFS the SCVMM server address

11. How to Install TFS Lab Management
Install GDR patch to enable Lab Management (or Service pack 1)
Install a SCVMM Server
Install SCVMM Admin Console on TFS server
On SCVMM Server configure hosts and shares
Tell TFS the SCVMM server address
On each TPC configure lab settings

13. How to Install TFS Lab Management
Install GDR patch to enable Lab Management (or Service pack 1)
Install a SCVMM Server
Install SCVMM Admin Console on TFS server
On SCVMM Server configure hosts and shares
Tell TFS the SCVMM server address
On each TPC configure lab settings
And now the work starts……..

14. Lab Management Concepts
Environment
VMs
Templates
Snapshots
Controllers and Agents

15. Team Project Collection
What controls what?
TFS
Team Project Collection
Test Controller
Environment
Build Controller
Each VM in Environment
Developer
Test Agent
Build
Agent
Build
Agent
Lab Agent
Environment Capability
Lab Agent Required?
Test Agent Required?
Build Agent Required?
Testing √ X
Deployment workflow
Network Isolation
Build Agent

16. Lab Management Concepts
Environment
VMs
Templates
Snapshots
Controllers and Agents
Network Isolation

17. Look at blog post http://msmvps
Look at blog post for a discussion on this

18. Lab Management Concepts
Environment
VMs
Templates
Snapshots
Controllers and Agents
Network Isolation
Host and Guest Connections

19. Process of End to End Testing
Ordinary Build Performed
Start Lab Build
Build Report Stored
Deploy the software
Lab Build Requested
Request the Lab
Run automated Tests
Triage Issues
Run Manual Tests

20. Demo
Lab Management

36. Load Testing

37. Load Testing
Microsoft has provided load testing since Visual Studio 2005
Enables stress testing of application, building on the test you have already written
Since May 2011, the Load Test Agent has become free as part of the Load Testing Feature Pack (you do need VS 2010 Ultimate too)

38. Load Test Architecture
A Local PC
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Test Controller
(Manages Test Agents)
Test Agent
(Runs Tests)

39. Load Test Architecture
A Developers PC
Test Controller PC
Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
Test Controller
(Manages Test Agents)
Another PC
Another PC
Test Agent
(Runs Tests)
Test Agent
(Runs Tests)
Another PC
Test Agent
(Runs Tests)

40. Demo
LoAD Testing

42. Summary Delivering quality software is not just about programming
Automated builds bring repeatable quality to a project
Lab Management can extend this into both automated and manual testing with a fully integrated solution
Load testing is now available to all, building on the test you have already written

43. Resources
Visual Studio
VHD Test Drive - Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management
Visual Studio Lab Management team blog
Techdays 2010 UK Video “Putting some Testing into your TFS Build Process”

44. Questions

45. Engineering Director, Black Marble Ltd.
Richard Fennell
Engineering Director, Black Marble Ltd.
@RichardFennell