The Feature Is Back- Visual Studio 2013 Can Run Selected Tests in Test List Editor

On August 29, 2013, I wrote a post mentioning VSTS 2012 IDE update 3 doesn’t really support Coded Web Performance Tests at a time.

After I installed Visual Studio 2013 RTM, I upgraded my Visual Studio 2010 Test Project including VSMDI file. I would like to see if Visual Studio 2013 fixes the issue above.

From the screenshot, I could see Test List Editor is deprecated. This is expected because it has been deprecated since Visual Studio 2012.

Can I run Selected Tests in one of my Test Lists? The answer is yes.

Here are the simple steps:

Select Pending Test lists -> 7 tests are selected.

Go to TEST- Run -> Selected Tests

This feature can only build the solution file because I see “Build succeeds”.

Go to LOAD TEST-> Run -> Selected Tests

It will automatically run 7 tests at a time. This is really what I want.

I am very happy to say that this feature is finally back and it fixes the bad design issue I mention above.  

See Also

VSTS 2012 IDE update 3 can’t run multiple Coded Wed Performance Tests at a time [only MSTEST Matters]

IE10 is not required for Visual Studio 2013 RTM 

IE10 is not required for Visual Studio 2013 RTM

Many people were complaining about one system requirement of Visual Studio 2013 RC and Visual Studio 2013 Preview: IE 10. I was complaining about it too because many companies still use IE9 or IE8. 

Today I downloaded it and when doing the install, I felt surprised to see the following screenshot. 

It means I can still install Visual Studio 2013 RTM without IE10. But some features might not work as expected. This time Visual Studio Team is listening to people’s voice.  I really appreciate their smart decision.

Just followed the instruction and the install was finished.

Fix the issue: Blank cells in Excel 2010 via Copy with Headers in SQL Server 2008 R2

In this Sprint, we have the important feature: Users uploads the Excel Spreadsheet in our Silverlight Application, 283 values will be saved in the new table in SQL Server 2008 R2 and the values will show up immediately in the Silverlight UI page.

Validating 283 values is really time-consuming. One basic test scenario is that I put the incremental values (1-283) in each cell first and then validate the values are showing up correctly in DB after the upload of spreadsheet.

Each field in the UI has the long business name so I use column aliases in the SQL script.

For example

Select

YR1_SALES_INV_RATIO as ' Market Year 1 Sales to Investment Ratio'     ,

From TableName

In order to validate the values correctly, I use Copy with Headers and paste the data to Excel spreadsheet. Here are the steps:

·         Select the data in SQL Server 2008 R2 and use Copy with Headers

·         Paste to the Excel Spreadsheet 2010

·         Transpose the data

One interesting issue happens after trying to compare the values.  Many header cells after the transpose are blank in Excel Spreadsheet.

I know I can use “Shift cells up” to remove the blank cells, but this is not the best solution because I need to remove them manually every time after doing copy/paste/transpose.

After looking into this interesting issue for a while, I finally find “column Aliases” are too long and Copy with Headers function can’t handle it well in Excel Spreadsheet, which causes the blank cells.  

After simplifying column aliases and try the steps above, the blank cells are going away.