How to add test cases in Microsoft Test Manager

Below are the steps to add the test case in MTM as per the requirements.

Introduction:

Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (MTM 2012)is the component of Visual Studio 2012. We need to select to install Microsoft Test Manager 2012 (MTM 2012)while installing Visual Studio 2012. We can perform the complete Test Management with this tool.

To begin with the Test Manager 2012,

• Start menu -> Programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 -> Microsoft Test Manager 2012, As shown in the below screen, enter server details and click on ‘Add’ button.

• Connecting to Team Project

• Click on Expand buttons to view the Team projects for that servers
• Select the required Team Project
• Click on ‘Connect Now’ button
• Adding a Plan to the Team Project

• Click on ‘Add’ button shown in the screen, displays popup window 
• Provide a name (project name)  and click on ‘Add’
• Add the Test Plan and Select the Area Path and Iteration path.
• Click on button ‘Add’
• Adding a New test Plan to the Team Project

Creating a Requirements for the New Project

• Open Visual Studio from your system
• Connect to Team Foundation Server

• Click on New Requirement (User Story)

Perform the below steps

• Enter ‘Title’ which is mandatory field.
• Select Assign to, State, Area and Iteration and other required fields.
• Contains different tabs like Details, Implementation, Test Cases, All Links, Attachments
• Details tab is to enter more information about the user story and to track the history.
• Implementation tab is to link other work items
• Test Cases tab is to link test cases
• Attachments tab is to attach any document etc… and click on button “Save”

Adding User Story to the Test Manager

• Connect to Test Manager and select team project and select plan as mentioned in the above slides.

• Click on ‘Add Requirements’.
• Displays query, provide information and run the query as shown in the next slide.
• Displays all user stories. Select the required and click on ‘Add requirements to plan’

Once added requirements (user story) they will get displayed under the project as shown in the screen shot below

Creating Test Cases

• Now we can create Test Cases to each user story. As shown in the screen shot below
• click on ‘New’ button

• Enter the Title , Area and the Iteration path and select Priority.
• The steps tab will list out the steps for the test case execution.
• Summary tab is For Entering some extra descriptive information about the test case.
• The tested user stories and all links tab Display the user story associated.
• The attachments tab is for attaching Any additional document if required

The new test case will be created and will be displayed as shown in image below