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    <title>Microsoft Testing topics</title>
    <link>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/bd-p/MicrosoftTesting</link>
    <description>Microsoft Testing topics</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 17:11:24 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>MicrosoftTesting</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2026-08-24T17:11:24Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Which VS Code test explorer for .NET C# ?</title>
      <link>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/which-vs-code-test-explorer-for-net-c/m-p/3608014#M15</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi everyone.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I'm developing a project using .NET 6 C# in Visual Studio Code. I would like to have a test explorer in my VS Code UI. I know that Microsoft offers the "Test Runner for Java" extension for VS Code, which adds a test explorer to the VS Code UI. However, I cannot find an extension that adds a test explorer for C#. I had a look at the extension "Test Explorer UI" from Holger Benl, but it is deprecated.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Could someone please recommend an extension that has a test explorer for C#. Thanks in advance!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2022 09:12:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/which-vs-code-test-explorer-for-net-c/m-p/3608014#M15</guid>
      <dc:creator>mneiferbag</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-08-24T09:12:37Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Testar produtos</title>
      <link>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/testar-produtos/m-p/3256032#M10</link>
      <description>Testar produtos</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2022 03:54:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/testar-produtos/m-p/3256032#M10</guid>
      <dc:creator>Gabrelbis</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-03-14T03:54:03Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Role of Testers (QAs) in Modern Delivery Models? Your thoughts on It?</title>
      <link>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/role-of-testers-qas-in-modern-delivery-models-your-thoughts-on/m-p/2004650#M5</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;What can be the Role of Testers (QAs) in Modern Delivery Models?&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="6"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;What does book Says for Scrum?&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;1.1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Role of Tester in Scrum&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;img /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;There is no active role of Tester in the Scrum&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;Process. Usually, testing is carried out by a developer with Unit Test. While product owner is also frequently involved in the testing process during each sprint.&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Some Scrum projects do have dedicated test teams depending on the nature &amp;amp; complexity of the project&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The next question is, what tester do in a scrum? Following note will answer&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;1.2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Testing Activities in Scrum&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Testers do following activities during the various stages of Scrum-&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;1.2.1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sprint Planning&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;In sprint planning, a tester should pick a user-story from the product backlog that should be tested.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she should decide how many hours (Effort Estimation) it should take&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;to finish&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;testing for each of selected user stories.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she must know what sprint goals are.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, contribute to the prioritizing process&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;1.2.2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sprint&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Support developers in unit testing&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Test user-story when completed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Test execution is performed&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;in a lab where both tester and developer work hand in hand. Defect are logged in Defect Management tool which are tracked daily. Defects can be conferred and analyzed during the scrum meeting. Defects are retested as soon as it is&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;resolved&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;and deployed for testing&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she attends all daily standup meeting to speak up&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/ she can bring any backlog item that cannot be completed in the current sprint and put to the next sprint&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Tester is responsible for developing automation scripts. He schedules automation testing with Continuous Integration (CI) system. Automation receives the importance due to short delivery timelines. Test Automation can be accomplished by utilizing various open source or paid tools available in the market. This proves effective in ensuring that everything that needs to be tested was covered. Sufficient Test coverage can be achieved with a close communication with the team.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Review CI automation results and send Reports to the stakeholders&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Executing non-functional testing for approved user stories&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Coordinate with customer and product owner to define acceptance criteria for Acceptance Tests&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;At the end of the sprint, the tester also does acceptance testing (UAT) in some case and confirms testing completeness for the current sprint&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;1.2.3&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Sprint Retrospective&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he will figure out what went wrong and what went right in the current sprint&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he identifies lesson learned and best practices&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;FONT size="6"&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;What can we do for Modern Delivery?&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;/FONT&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;2.1&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Role of Tester in Modern Delivery&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Considering the many advantages of having a separate testing team, we must be having testers/QA in the team for modern delivery process.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Testers should be responsible for following items:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Review Functional Design&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Writing Test Cases&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Support developers in unit testing&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Testing the Features in Dev Instances&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Creating Test Automation Script&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Exploratory Testing in SIT&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Supporting UAT testers in UAT&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;2.2&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Testing Activities in Modern Delivery&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Testers should do following activities during the various stages of Modern Delivery-&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;2.2.1&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Sprint Planning&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL class="lia-list-style-type-disc"&gt;&lt;LI&gt;In sprint planning, a tester should help in picking a user-story from the product backlog for development, Design Review &amp;amp; Test case creation.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she should decide how many hours (Effort Estimation) it should take&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;to finish&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;testing for each of selected user stories for &lt;STRONG&gt;development&lt;/STRONG&gt;.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she should decide how many hours (Effort Estimation) it should take&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;to finish&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;Functional &lt;STRONG&gt;Design Review and Test Case creation&lt;/STRONG&gt; for each of selected user stories for Test Case Creation.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she should decide how many hours (Effort Estimation) it should take&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;support UAT &lt;/STRONG&gt;team.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she must know what sprint goals are.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, contribute to the prioritizing process.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;2.2.2 Sprint&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Review Design and Write Test Cases for User Stories selected for creating Test Cases.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Create Query Clarification Work Item for any design related query.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Support developers in unit testing.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Test user-story in Dev instance when completed.&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;Manual&lt;/STRONG&gt; &lt;STRONG&gt;Test execution will be performed&lt;/STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;in an instance where both tester and developer will work hand in hand.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Tester will be responsible for developing automation scripts.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Perform exploratory testing for all the work items deployed to &lt;STRONG&gt;SIT instance.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Defects will be logged in Defect Management tool which will be tracked daily. Defects will be conferred and analyzed during the Triage call. Defects will be retested as soon as it is&amp;nbsp;resolved&amp;nbsp;and deployed for testing.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Send Test Reports to the stakeholders.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she attends all daily standup meeting to speak up.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/ she can bring any backlog item that cannot be completed in the current sprint and put to the next sprint.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Support for UAT team.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Executing non-functional testing for approved user stories.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;2.2.3&amp;nbsp; Sprint Retrospective&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she will figure out what went wrong and what went right in the current sprint&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;As a tester, he/she identifies lesson learned and best practices&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2020 05:19:26 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/role-of-testers-qas-in-modern-delivery-models-your-thoughts-on/m-p/2004650#M5</guid>
      <dc:creator>amars4u</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-12-20T05:19:26Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Emails Received from Thunderbird on Exchange 2013 CU23 get their attachments corrupted</title>
      <link>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/emails-received-from-thunderbird-on-exchange-2013-cu23-get-their/m-p/1732097#M4</link>
      <description>&lt;P class=""&gt;We are facing an issue with emails received from specific people using Thunderbird mail client and sending attachments in languages other than English.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;The email is received ok . Content is fine and readable but the attachments are received corrupted with the following type :&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;"part_of_original_filename Filename2= Filename3=' and the size is a lot smaller for example original doc file 58kb attachment received 200bytes&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any seen this issue before and has any idea on how to resolve it ?&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:34:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/emails-received-from-thunderbird-on-exchange-2013-cu23-get-their/m-p/1732097#M4</guid>
      <dc:creator>Schristoudias</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-09-30T20:34:57Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Becoming An Official Tester</title>
      <link>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/becoming-an-official-tester/m-p/1176290#M3</link>
      <description>Other than TestFlight, is there an official way to register formally with MSFT with either current or future beta testing?&lt;BR /&gt;Thanks</description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2020 16:56:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/becoming-an-official-tester/m-p/1176290#M3</guid>
      <dc:creator>Substandard</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2020-02-16T16:56:45Z</dc:date>
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      <title>How to use FindFirst() method if I already know the name of the element</title>
      <link>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/how-to-use-findfirst-method-if-i-already-know-the-name-of-the/m-p/783969#M2</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;I am using IUIAutomation interface of COM to write an Automation Client Application to automate a VFP (Visual FoxPro) app.&amp;nbsp; My question is, since I already know the name of a UI element, if and how I can directly use FindFirst() method of IUIAutomationElement interface to identify the UI element, rather than going through the Automation Tree, such as starting from the root element which is desktop.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Look forward to your help!&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 14:57:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-testing/how-to-use-findfirst-method-if-i-already-know-the-name-of-the/m-p/783969#M2</guid>
      <dc:creator>zwang</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2019-08-01T14:57:37Z</dc:date>
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