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Creating test plan in Microsoft Test Manager 2010

This is Syed Aslam Basha here from Information security and risk management team.

In this blog I will show “Creating test plan in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) 2010.

 

  • Launch MTM from Start –> All Programs –>Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 – > Microsoft Test Manager 2010
  • Click on Add server
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  • Enter the team foundation server name or URL and click on add
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  • Select a node and expand, select the team project and click on connect now
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  • If you have already created a plan select a test plan or click on add button to create a test plan
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  • Enter the plan name and click on add
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  • Select the test plan and click on select plan
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  • It shows the plan with default configuration settings as
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  • Click on the organize tab
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  • Select test plan manager
  • The screen shows the test plans created.
  • You can create new test plan by clicking on new button.
  • You can open the existing test plan by selecting the test plan and clicking on open button.
  • You can delete the test plan by selecting the test plan and clicking on delete button.
  • Select the test plan and click on open
  • The test plan with default settings is shown. You can add/update name, description, state, start and end date, area path and iteration path. I will be covering run settings in the next blog post.
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- Syed Aslam Basha ( syedab@microsoft.com )

Microsoft Information Security Tools (IST) Team

Test Lead

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Comments

  • Anonymous
    November 04, 2011
    hey, i am facing an issue, my boss assign me a task to create a test plan in test manager 2010, but when i am going to create test plan its showing me a prompted message that "You don't have appropriate rights to manage test plan", can you please help me out that hw can i get permission to create a test plan. Thanks: M.Bilal Aslam

  • Anonymous
    November 07, 2011
    Hi Bilal, You should have permissions to create test plan contact your TFS administrator for permissions. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252587%28VS.100%29.aspx Syed