Visual Studio Team Services – Testing Tools Roadmap

This post outlines the roadmap for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) / Team Foundation Server (TFS) Testing Tools, detailing key shifts in testing due to trends like Agile, DevOps, Cloud, and Mobile. It highlights investments in Dev Inner Loop (Unit Testing), Testing in CI/CD, Manual and Exploratory Testing, Load and Performance Testing, and Integration with 3rd party test services. It details delivered features such as parallel and incremental test execution, MSTest support for ASP.NET 5, JUnit and code coverage support for Java applications, in-context test results in builds and release management, parallel test execution on multiple machines, support for Coded UI and Selenium, and a new exploratory testing experience on the web. Future plans include configurable test widgets, test history across branches/environments, and test impact analysis in CI. Load testing will offer JMeter support and a web experience for author-execute-analyze. The post also emphasizes the shift towards web experiences for manual and exploratory testing, with features like inline tests on Kanban boards and XT-Image action logs coming next.