My colleagues in the Chicagoland area are hosting a series of events on the testing tools that are now a part of Visual Studio featuring Ram Cherla, a Principal Program Manager in the Visual Studio Test Tools Business, a growing part of the Developer Division at Microsoft. Ram is very passionate about building a well-integrated set of tools and technologies that enable developers build, test and ship quality software.
Ram will be visiting Chicago and Milwaukee to provide a deeper dive into the innovative new capabilities being introduced in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, Visual Studio Test Elements and Test and Lab Management products. The events he will be headlining will feature presentations appropriate for developers, architects, and quality assurance analysts. People who attend the events will have the opportunity to see the upcoming testing products included in Visual Studio 2010 as well as interact directly with the Redmond team responsible for designing, building and delivering the new testing products. The sessions will cover a broad range of topics, including Software Quality Assurance (SQA), historical debugging, the new manual test runner, test impact analysis and test lab management.
The events feature a full day of sessions, starting at 8:30am local time and wrapping up around 4:30pm local (or Zulu for you military-types). The agenda will cover an overall walkthrough of the new features, a brief discussion on the product transition (I'm working on a blog post for that), as well as a deep dive into the new QA features – Coded UI Testing, Manual Test Runner, Lab Management and more – followed by a discussion on migration and integration options for other QA tools on the market. The team will close with a raffle for books and a new Zune HD.
There are three events in this short series.
If you live in the Chicagoland area or in Milwaukee, and you are responsible for producing quality software (yes, I'm looking at you Mr. Developer Guy; this isn't just for the guys and gals in QA, you know!), you should check out one of these events.