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ravishan — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:19:52 GMT

"Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Test Case Migrator Plus tool allows test related artifacts, present in Excel and MHT/Word formats, to be imported into Team Foundation Server. It works with both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012.

The tool contains 2 workflows, the Excel based workflow and the MHT/doc workflow, each of which is described below:

Excel based workflow:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel into Team Foundation Server – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates work items belonging to Requirement/User story and Bug work item types present in Microsoft Excel into Team Foundation Server – This is a ONE way migration only.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one Excel file in a single run.

MHT/Doc based workflow:

Migrates Visual Studio 2005/2008 manual test templates present in MHT/doc formats into Team Foundation Server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool iterating over multiple MHT/Doc files within a folder in a single run.

Capabilities common to both Excel and MHT/doc workflows:

Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across AGILE, CMMI and SCRUM based projects is shipped along with the tool.

These capabilities allow you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc) present in Visual Studio 2010 / Visual Studio 2012 post migration.

Pre-Requisites

For Visual Studio 2010:

Before you can run the “Binaries for VS2010 - Test Case Migrator Plus V1.2 RTM” tool, both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM/SP1 bits
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition RTM (Web Install) (OR)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition RTM (Web Install) (OR)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional RTM (Web Install) AND Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer (ISO) Explorer (ISO)
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

For Visual Studio 2012:
Before you can run the “Binaries for VS2012 - Test Case Migrator Plus V1.2 RTM” tool, both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

Installation

If you have Visual Studio 2010 client bits installed, then:
Download the “Binaries for VS2010 - TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT) V1.2 RTM.zip" and extract it to a folder and start the TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

If you have Visual Studio 2012 client bits installed, then:
Download the “Binaries for VS2012 - TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT) V1.2 RTM.zip" and extract it to a folder and start the TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

If you have both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012 client bits installed on your machine, then either of the above will work.

Note: Both the VS2012 or the VS2010 version of the tool allows you to connect to a hosted Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Server 2010 or Team Foundation Server 2012.

Usage

Refer to the TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT)-Readme document in the downloads section for a step by step description of how to use the "Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) tool - both in UI mode and command line mode. Refer to the LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme for an in-depth look at how the links are migrated with this tool.

What's new for the V1.2 RTM version

This release (V1.2 RTM) includes:

Support for connecting to Hosted Team Foundation Server Preview.
Support for connecting to Team Foundation Server 11 Beta.
Fix to issue with read-only attribute being set for LinksMapping-ReportFile which may have led to problems when saving the report file.
Fix to issue with “related links” not being set properly in certain conditions.
Fixes to ensure that tool works fine when the Excel file contained rich text data.
- Note: Data is still imported in plain text only.

What's new for the V1.1 RTM version

The V1.1 RTM release includes fixes for 2 reported issues:

Issue#1: The tool crashes when used against a Scrum project template
This version includes the fix that enables you to work with Projects created with the Scrum Template. Without this fix, trying to use the tool against a project created using a Scrum template would either crash the tool or give various errors.
The core problem with the Scrum template was that the “Bug” work item was present in both “Requirements” category and “Bugs” category, whereas the tool was expecting it to be present only in the “Bugs” category. This has now been corrected.

Issue#2: Test Steps/Expected Results imported via tool do not show up in Microsoft Test Runner (MTR) during manual testing
The tool incorrectly imports the Test steps with Expected Results. Any test step with Expected result should be marked as a Validate step, however this was not set appropriately by the tool. As a result, when the test case is executed manually in MTR, the expected result does not show up inline with the test step.
Fix is that the ‘TestStepType’ field for such a test step should be set as TestStepType.ValidateStep
Thanks to kfkyle for submitting this fix

What's new for the RC2 version

With RC2, the following functionality was added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:17:42 GMT

"Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel into Team Foundation Server – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates work items belonging to Requirement/User story and Bug work item types present in Microsoft Excel into Team Foundation Server – This is a ONE way migration only.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one Excel file in a single run.

MHT/Doc based workflow:

Migrates Visual Studio 2005/2008 manual test templates present in MHT/doc formats into Team Foundation Server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool iterating over multiple MHT/Doc files within a folder in a single run.

Capabilities common to both Excel and MHT/doc workflows:

Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across AGILE, CMMI and SCRUM based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM/SP1 bits
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition RTM (Web Install) (OR)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition RTM (Web Install) (OR)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional RTM (Web Install) AND Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer (ISO) Explorer (ISO)
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

Installation

Usage

What's new for the V1.2 RTM version

This release (V1.2 RTM) includes:

Support for connecting to Hosted Team Foundation Server.
Support for connecting to Team Foundation Server 2012.
Fix to issue with read-only attribute being set for LinksMapping-ReportFile which may have led to problems when saving the report file.
Fix to issue with “related links” not being set properly in certain conditions.
Fixes to ensure that tool works fine when the Excel file contained rich text data.
- Note: Data is still imported in plain text only.

What's new for the V1.1 RTM version

What's new for the RC2 version

With RC2, the following functionality was added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:34:46 GMT

"Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Test Case Migrator Plus tool allows test related artifacts, present in Excel and MHT/Word formats, to be imported into Team Foundation Server. It works with both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 (Beta).

The tool contains 2 workflows, the Excel based workflow and the MHT/doc workflow, each of which is described below:

Excel based workflow:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel into Team Foundation Server – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates work items belonging to Requirement/User story and Bug work item types present in Microsoft Excel into Team Foundation Server – This is a ONE way migration only.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one Excel file in a single run.

MHT/Doc based workflow:

Migrates Visual Studio 2005/2008 manual test templates present in MHT/doc formats into Team Foundation Server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool iterating over multiple MHT/Doc files within a folder in a single run.

Capabilities common to both Excel and MHT/doc workflows:

Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across AGILE, CMMI and SCRUM based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM/SP1 bits
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition RTM (Web Install) (OR)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition RTM (Web Install) (OR)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional RTM (Web Install) AND Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer (ISO) Explorer (ISO)
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

For Visual Studio 11 (Beta):
Before you can run the “Binaries for VS11Beta - Test Case Migrator Plus V1.2 RTM” tool, both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

Installation

If you have Visual Studio 2010 client bits installed, then:
Download the “Binaries for VS2010 - TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT) V1.2 RTM.zip" and extract it to a folder and start the TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

If you have Visual Studio 11 Beta client bits installed, then:
Download the “Binaries for VS11Beta - TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT) V1.2 RTM.zip" and extract it to a folder and start the TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

If you have both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 Beta client bits installed on your machine, then either of the above will work.

Note: Both the VS11 Beta or the VS2010 version of the tool allows you to connect to a hosted Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Server 2010 or Team Foundation Server 11 Beta.

Usage

What's new for the V1.2 RTM version

This release (V1.2 RTM) includes:

Support for connecting to Hosted Team Foundation Server Preview.
Support for connecting to Team Foundation Server 11 Beta.
Fix to issue with read-only attribute being set for LinksMapping-ReportFile which may have led to problems when saving the report file.
Fix to issue with “related links” not being set properly in certain conditions.
Fixes to ensure that tool works fine when the Excel file contained rich text data.
- Note: Data is still imported in plain text only.

What's new for the V1.1 RTM version

What's new for the RC2 version

With RC2, the following functionality was added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Updated Wiki: Home

ravishan — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 14:34:15 GMT

"Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Test Case Migrator Plus tool allows test related artifacts, present in Excel and MHT/Word formats, to be imported into Team Foundation Server. It works with both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 (Beta).

The tool contains 2 workflows, the Excel based workflow and the MHT/doc workflow, each of which is described below:

Excel based workflow:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel into Team Foundation Server – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates work items belonging to Requirement/User story and Bug work item types present in Microsoft Excel into Team Foundation Server – This is a ONE way migration only.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one Excel file in a single run.

MHT/Doc based workflow:

Migrates Visual Studio 2005/2008 manual test templates present in MHT/doc formats into Team Foundation Server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool iterating over multiple MHT/Doc files within a folder in a single run.

Capabilities common to both Excel and MHT/doc workflows:

Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across AGILE, CMMI and SCRUM based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM/SP1 bits
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Edition RTM (Web Install) (OR)
- Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition RTM (Web Install) (OR)
- Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional RTM (Web Install) AND Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Team Explorer (ISO) Explorer (ISO)
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

Installation

If you have Visual Studio 2010 client bits installed, then:
Download the “Binaries for VS2010 - TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT) V1.2 RTM.zip" and extract it to a folder and start the TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

If you have Visual Studio 11 Beta client bits installed, then:
Download the “Binaries for VS11Beta - TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT) V1.2 RTM.zip" and extract it to a folder and start the TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

If you have both Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 11 Beta client bits installed on your machine, then either of the above will work.

Note: Both the VS11 Beta or the VS2010 version of the tool allows you to connect to a hosted Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Server 2010 or Team Foundation Server 11 Beta.

Usage

What's new for the V1.2 RTM version

This release (V1.2 RTM) includes:

Support for connecting to Hosted Team Foundation Server Preview.
Support for connecting to Team Foundation Server 11 Beta.
Fix to issue with read-only attribute being set for LinksMapping-ReportFile which may have led to problems when saving the report file.
Fix to issue with “related links” not being set properly in certain conditions.
Fixes to ensure that tool works fine when the Excel file contained rich text data.
- Note: Data is still imported in plain text only.

What's new for the V1.1 RTM version

What's new for the RC2 version

With RC2, the following functionality was added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:51:02 GMT

"Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator (Beta and RC1), it was possible to:

migrate test cases (along with test steps) present in Microsoft Excel to VS2010 TCM server AND
migrate VS 2005/2008 test templates present in MHT/doc formats to VS2010 TCM server.

These capabilities allowed you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc) present in VS 2010 release post migration.

With the RC2 release of this tool, we added to the Excel capabilities, the ability to migrate not just the Test case work item, but also Requirements and Bugs work items – hence the change in name of the executable to “TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe”. The mht/doc based workflow remains the same – i.e. it only supports migration of work item type present in the VS2005/2008 manual test templates.

Some of the salient features associated with RC2 version of tool (for excel based workflow) were as follows:

Migrates work items belonging to Test case, Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.

Salient features associated with prior versions of the tool include:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word).
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator Plus” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM bits

Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for the RTM version

This release (V1.1 RTM) includes fixes for 2 reported issues:

Issue#1: The tool crashes when used against a Scrum project template
This version includes the fix that enables you to work with Projects created with the Scrum Template. Without this fix, trying to use the tool against a project created using a Scrum template would either crash the tool or give various errors.
The core problem with the Scrum template was that the “Bug” work item was present in both “Requirements” category and “Bugs” category, whereas the tool was expecting it to be present only in the “Bugs” category. This has now been corrected.

Issue#2: Test Steps/Expected Results imported via tool do not show up in Microsoft Test Runner (MTR) during manual testing
The tool incorrectly imports the Test steps with Expected Results. Any test step with Expected result should be marked as a Validate step, however this was not set appropriately by the tool. As a result, when the test case is executed manually in MTR, the expected result does not show up inline with the test step.
Fix is that the ‘TestStepType’ field for such a test step should be set as TestStepType.ValidateStep
Thanks to kfkyle for submitting this fix

What's new for the RC2 version

With RC2, the following functionality was added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Installation

Download the “TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT) V1.1 RTM Binaries.zip" and extract it to a folder and start the TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

Usage

Updated Wiki: Home

ravishan — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 08:50:11 GMT

"Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator (Beta and RC1), it was possible to:

migrate test cases (along with test steps) present in Microsoft Excel to VS2010 TCM server AND
migrate VS 2005/2008 test templates present in MHT/doc formats to VS2010 TCM server.

Migrates work items belonging to Test case, Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.

Salient features associated with prior versions of the tool include:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word).
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator Plus” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM bits

Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for the RTM version

What's new for the RC2 version

With RC2, the following functionality was added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Home

ravishan — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:58:42 GMT

"Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator (Beta and RC1), it was possible to:

migrate test cases (along with test steps) present in Microsoft Excel to VS2010 TCM server AND
migrate VS 2005/2008 test templates present in MHT/doc formats to VS2010 TCM server.

These capabilities allowed you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc) present in VS 2010 release post migration.

With the RC2 release of this tool, we are adding to the Excel capabilities, the ability to migrate not just the Test case work item, but also Requirements and Bugs work items – hence the change in name of the executable to “TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe”. The mht/doc based workflow remains the same – i.e. it only supports migration of work item type present in the VS2005/2008 manual test templates.

Some of the salient features associated with this version of tool (for excel based workflow) are as follows:

Migrates work items belonging to Test case, Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.

Salient features associated with prior versions of the tool include:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word).
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator Plus” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM bits

Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version (RC2)

With this new drop in RC2, the following functionality has been added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Installation

Download the “TestCaseMigratorPlus(Excel-MHT) V1.0 RC2 Binaries.zip” and extract it to a folder and start the TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

Usage

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Wed, 12 May 2010 13:54:18 GMT

"Test Case Migrator Plus" (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator (Beta and RC1), it was possible to:

migrate test cases (along with test steps) present in Microsoft Excel to VS2010 TCM server AND
migrate VS 2005/2008 test templates present in MHT/doc formats to VS2010 TCM server.

These capabilities allowed you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc) present in VS 2010 release post migration.

With the RC2 release of this tool, we are adding to the Excel capabilities, the ability to migrate not just the Test case work item, but also Requirements and Bugs work items – hence the change in name of the executable to “TestCaseMigratorPlus.exe”. The mht/doc based workflow remains the same – i.e. it only supports migration of work item type present in the VS2005/2008 manual test templates.

Some of the salient features associated with this version of tool (for excel based workflow) are as follows:

Migrates work items belonging to Test case, Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.

Salient features associated with prior versions of the tool include:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word).
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator Plus” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM bits

Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version (RC2)

With this new drop in RC2, the following functionality has been added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:41:22 GMT

Work Item Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator (Beta and RC1), it was possible to:

migrate test cases (along with test steps) present in Microsoft Excel to VS2010 TCM server AND
migrate VS 2005/2008 test templates present in MHT/doc formats to VS2010 TCM server.

These capabilities allowed you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc) present in VS 2010 release post migration.

With the RC2 release of this tool, we are adding to the Excel capabilities, the ability to migrate not just the Test case work item, but also Requirements and Bugs work items – hence the change in name of the executable to “WorkItemMigrator.exe”. The mht/doc based workflow remains the same – i.e. it only supports migration of work item type present in the VS2005/2008 manual test templates.

Some of the salient features associated with this version of tool (for excel based workflow) are as follows:

Migrates work items belonging to Test case, Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.

Salient features associated with prior versions of the tool include:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word).
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Work Item Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM bits

Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version (RC2)

With this new drop in RC2, the following functionality has been added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Installation

Download the “WorkItemMigrator(Excel-MHT) V1.0 RC2 Binaries.zip” and extract it to a folder and start the WorkItemMigrator.exe application. Along with the binaries package, the other files that might be useful include the Readme document, the Linking internals document and the samples package (one for Excel & other for MHT). The sample packages contain corresponding setting file that you can use to jump start the migration process.

Usage

Refer to the WorkItemMigrator(Excel-MHT)-Readme document in the downloads section for a step by step description of how to use the Work Item Migrator (Excel/MHT) tool - both in UI mode and command line mode. Refer to the LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme for an in-depth look at how the links are migrated with this tool.

Updated Wiki: Home

ravishan — Fri, 07 May 2010 15:23:12 GMT

Work Item Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator (Beta and RC1), it was possible to:

migrate test cases (along with test steps) present in Microsoft Excel to VS2010 TCM server AND
migrate VS 2005/2008 test templates present in MHT/doc formats to VS2010 TCM server.

These capabilities allowed you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc) present in VS 2010 release post migration.

With the RC2 release of this tool, we are adding to the Excel capabilities, the ability to migrate not just the Test case work item, but also Requirements and Bugs work items – hence the change in name of the executable to “WorkItemMigrator.exe”. The mht/doc based workflow remains the same – i.e. it only supports migration of work item type present in the VS2005/2008 manual test templates.

Some of the salient features associated with this version of tool (for excel based workflow) are as follows:

Migrates work items belonging to Test case, Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.

Salient features associated with prior versions of the tool include:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word).
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Work Item Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM bits

Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version (RC2)

With this new drop in RC2, the following functionality has been added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:32:31 GMT

Work Item Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator (Beta and RC1), it was possible to:

migrate test cases (along with test steps) present in Microsoft Excel to VS2010 TCM server AND
migrate VS 2005/2008 test templates present in MHT/doc formats to VS2010 TCM server.

These capabilities allowed you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc) present in VS 2010 release post migration.

With the RC2 release of this tool, we are adding to the Excel capabilities, the ability to migrate not just the Test case work item, but also Requirements and Bugs work items – hence the change in name of the executable to “WorkItemMigrator.exe”. The mht/doc based workflow remains the same – i.e. it only supports migration of work item type present in the VS2005/2008 manual test templates.

Some of the salient features associated with this version of tool (for excel based workflow) are as follows:

Migrates work items belonging to Test case, Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.

Salient features associated with prior versions of the tool include:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word).
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Work Item Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM bits

Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version (RC2)

With this new drop in RC2, the following functionality has been added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Home

ravishan — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:31:28 GMT

Work Item Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With the prior releases of Test Case Migrator (Beta and RC1), it was possible to:

migrate test cases (along with test steps) present in Microsoft Excel to VS2010 TCM server AND
migrate VS 2005/2008 test templates present in MHT/doc formats to VS2010 TCM server.

These capabilities allowed you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc) present in VS 2010 release post migration.

With the RC2 release of this tool, we are adding to the Excel capabilities, the ability to migrate not just the Test case work item, but also Requirements and Bugs work items – hence the change in name of the executable to “WorkItemMigrator.exe”. The mht/doc based workflow remains the same – i.e. it only supports migration of work item type present in the VS2005/2008 manual test templates.

Some of the salient features associated with this version of tool (for excel based workflow) are as follows:

Migrates work items belonging to Test case, Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Supports multi-pass migration process - i.e., each work item type has to be migrated in a different invocation/session of the tool.
Maintains links between work item types (Parent/Child, Related, Tested By, Tests etc) across multiple passes.
Provides ability to create Test suites for a test case work item type.

Salient features associated with prior versions of the tool include:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only.
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only.
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word).
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode.
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later.
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool.

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Work Item Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RTM bits

Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version (RC2)

With this new drop in RC2, the following functionality has been added to the Excel based workflow:

Migrate not just Test case, but also Requirement/User story and Bug work item types.
Migrate links (using “Links mapping” dialog (Excel flow)) between different work item types across different invocations/sessions of the tool. Refer to “LinksMapping(Excel)-Internals-Readme.doc” for additional details.
Default link types supported include:
- “Parent/Child” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Requirement::Requirement
- “Related” links between Test Case::Test Case
- “Related” links between Bug::Bug
- “Related” links between Requirement::Bug
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Requirement::Test Case
- “Tested By/Tests” links between Bug::Test Case
Create Test plans/test suites as part of migration process for a Test case work item type.
Create Area/Iteration Paths at runtime based on folder hierarchy specified in excel file for all supported work item types.
Analyze the migration process across different runs using “Consolidated Excel Pivot reports” (Excel flow) in addition to the session based output excel file.
Updated and polished UI for the tool – now this is consistent with VS2010 theme.
Improved and early inline error handling.

No changes have been made to the mht/doc based workflow other than UI polish.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Home

ravishan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:33:29 GMT

Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

With Visual Studio 2010, you get the end-to-end support for dealing with Test artifacts (test cases, test steps etc) when they are stored in Test Case Management (TCM)/Team Foundation Server (TFS). This allows you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc).

However, most of the test user base currently uses Microsoft Excel to track these test artifacts. There are also instances, mainly VS2005/VS2008, where the manual test case templates were used to generate the test cases in MHT/word formats. For folks who want to move this test data, from either Excel or from VS2005/2008 (MHT/word), into TCM server and then would want to use TCM server/Microsoft Test Manager client going forward, there is no easy alternative currently available.
The Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) tool provides you the ability to move the Test case information (including test steps) from both Excel and VS2005/VS2008 test templates (MHT/doc) formats into TCM server.

Some of the salient features associated with this tool are as follows:

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word)
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version (RC1)

With this new drop, the following functionality has been added/updated:

Support for VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files has been added to this version. With this support, users can now migrate the manual tests, created using the VS2005/VS2008 templates, into VS2010. This functionality is targeted using the RC bits of Visual Studio 2010.
Excel based migration continues to be supported. The tool has been updated to work with the RC bits for Visual Studio 2010. The only change for Excel as a data source type is that now you have to specify the “Output log folder” instead of “Output log file” in the “Miscellaneous” dialog. The term “column mapping” has now been replaced with “field mapping” to support both Excel and VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files.

Installation

Download the TestCaseMigrator.zip and extract it to install it. Along with the core bits, the zip also contains the sample files (excel/mht) along with the respective default setting/mapping file (excel/mht) that works across both Agile & CMMI project templates that ship out-of-the-box.

Usage

Refer to the TestCaseMigrator(Excel-MHT)-Readme document in the downloads section for a step by step description of how to use the Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) tool - both in UI mode and command line mode.

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:32:33 GMT

Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word)
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version (RC1)

With this new drop, the following functionality has been added/updated:

Support for VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files has been added to this version. With this support, users can now migrate the manual tests, created using the VS2005/VS2008 templates, into VS2010. This functionality is targeted using the RC bits of Visual Studio 2010.
Excel based migration continues to be supported. The tool has been updated to work with the RC bits for Visual Studio 2010. The only change for Excel as a data source type is that now you have to specify the “Output log folder” instead of “Output log file” in the “Miscellaneous” dialog. The term “column mapping” has now been replaced with “field mapping” to support both Excel and VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:32:02 GMT

Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word)
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version v1.0(RC1)

With this new drop, the following functionality has been added/updated:

Support for VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files has been added to this version. With this support, users can now migrate the manual tests, created using the VS2005/VS2008 templates, into VS2010. This functionality is targeted using the RC bits of Visual Studio 2010.
Excel based migration continues to be supported. The tool has been updated to work with the RC bits for Visual Studio 2010. The only change for Excel as a data source type is that now you have to specify the “Output log folder” instead of “Output log file” in the “Miscellaneous” dialog. The term “column mapping” has now been replaced with “field mapping” to support both Excel and VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Documentation

ravishan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:30:52 GMT

Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word)
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version

With this new drop, the following functionality has been added/updated:

Support for VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files has been added to this version. With this support, users can now migrate the manual tests, created using the VS2005/VS2008 templates, into VS2010. This functionality is targeted using the RC bits of Visual Studio 2010.
Excel based migration continues to be supported. The tool has been updated to work with the RC bits for Visual Studio 2010. The only change for Excel as a data source type is that now you have to specify the “Output log folder” instead of “Output log file” in the “Miscellaneous” dialog. The term “column mapping” has now been replaced with “field mapping” to support both Excel and VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Home

ravishan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:29:29 GMT

Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word)
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version

With this new drop, the following functionality has been added/updated:

Support for VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files has been added to this version. With this support, users can now migrate the manual tests, created using the VS2005/VS2008 templates, into VS2010. This functionality is targeted using the RC bits of Visual Studio 2010.
Excel based migration continues to be supported. The tool has been updated to work with the RC bits for Visual Studio 2010. The only change for Excel as a data source type is that now you have to specify the “Output log folder” instead of “Output log file” in the “Miscellaneous” dialog. The term “column mapping” has now been replaced with “field mapping” to support both Excel and VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Home

ravishan — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:27:23 GMT

Test Case Migrator (Excel/MHT) Tool

Overview

Migrates Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel – This is a ONE way migration only
Migrates VS2005/VS2008 manual test case templates (MHT/word) into TCM/TFS server – This also is ONE way migration only
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time (for Excel) or iterate over multiple files within a folder in a single run (for MHT/word)
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a settings/mappings file to be reused later
Default settings/mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects is shipped along with the tool

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 RC bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

What's new for this version

With this new drop, the following functionality has been added/updated:

Support for VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files has been added to this version. With this support, users can now migrate the manual tests, created using the VS2005/VS2008 templates, into VS2010. This functionality is targeted using the RC bits of Visual Studio 2010. The new flow for “mht” is marked accordingly in the document.
Excel based migration continues to be supported. The tool has been updated to work with the RC bits for Visual Studio 2010. The only change for Excel as a data source type is that now you have to specify the “Output log folder” instead of “Output log file” in the “Miscellaneous” dialog. The term “column mapping” has now been replaced with “field mapping” to support both Excel and VS2005/VS2008 manual test template (mht/word) files.

Installation

Usage

Updated Wiki: Home

hkhan — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 07:26:39 GMT

Test Case Migrator (Excel) Tool

Overview

With Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, you get the End-to-End support for dealing with Test artifacts (test cases, test steps, test results etc) when they are stored in Test Case Management (TCM)/Team Foundation Server (TFS). This allows you to reap all the benefits associated with Test Case Management (requirements traceability, test coverage, requirements coverage, test execution, test result analysis etc).

However, most of the test user base have their test artifacts in Microsoft Excel. For folks who want to move this test data into TCM server and then would want to use TCM Server/Microsoft Test and Lab Manager client going forward, the "Test Case Migrator (Excel)" tool provides you this capability.

Some of the salient features associated with this tool are as follows:

Imports Test case information (along with Test Steps) present in Excel into TCM/TFS server – Note: This is ONE way migration only
Provides a wizard based UI to run the tool one file at a time
Provides a command line support to run the tool in a batch mode
Allows you to save your selections/configurations into a mappings file to be reused later
Default mapping file that works across both Agile based and CMMI based projects are shipped along with the tool

Pre-Requisites

Both the following pre-requisites need to be present on the machine before you can run the “Test Case Migrator” tool. Without these, the tool will not function.

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 bits
Version of Microsoft Office 2003 or beyond

Installation

Unzip the TestCaseMigrator.zip and extract all the files to a local folder. Along with the core bits, the zip file also contains the default mapping file that works across both Agile & CMMI project templates that ship out-of-the-box.

Usage

Refer to the TestCaseMigrator(Excel)-Readme document in the downloads section for a step by step description of how to use the Test Case Migrator (Excel) tool - both in UI mode and command line mode.