Integrating existing testing systems with Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio

This post details how to integrate existing test tools with Microsoft Test Manager and Team Foundation Server. It outlines a four-step pattern: filing bugs from an IDE into TFS, creating test cases in TFS programmatically using the Test Management Service API, creating a Visual Studio test type that wraps an existing test execution engine (demonstrated by shelling out to an executable), and associating these automated tests with test cases in TFS using TCM or programmatically. It provides code snippets for creating test cases and executing external processes from within a Visual Studio test.