Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012 Jump Start

1. Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012Jump Start Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM

2. Meet Steven Borg | ‏@stevenborg • Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence • Specialize in helping organizations adopt lean-agile • Prefer TFS 2012 as my end-to-end ALM tool of choice • Background • Microsoft ALM MVP since 2005 • Written Kanban and Scrum courseware • Implemented Kanban and Scrum world-wide • Many years as a Microsoft Certified Trainer

3. Meet Anthony Borton | ‏@anthonyborton • ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM • Specialize in helping organizations adopt TFS • Full TFS 2010 & 2012 courses at www.alm-training.com • Background • MCT (since ’96), MCP (since ’93) • Completed 58 Microsoft exams (incl. 001) • Australia’s first Professional Scrum Developer trainer

4. Course Topics • Introduction • Exam overview • Create and configure test plans • Manage test cases • Manage test execution • Wrap up

5. Setting Expectations • Target Audience • Software Testers (and Developers) • IT Professionals studying to take the 70-497 exam • Suggested Prerequisites/Supporting Material • Familiarity with managing tests, creating bugs, and controlling test coverage, and a strong understanding modern testing practices and implementing testing practices using Microsoft technologies • Free Book: Testing for Continuous Delivery with Visual Studio 2012 • http://tinyurl.com/TestingCD

6. Join the MVA Community! • Microsoft Virtual Academy • Free online learning tailored for IT Pros and Developers • Over 1M registered users • Up-to-date, relevant training on variety of Microsoft products • “Earn while you learn!” • Get 50 MVA Points for this event! • Visit http://aka.ms/MVA-Voucher • Enter this code: ALM497 (expires 6/28/2013)

8. 01 | Exam Overview Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence

9. Module Overview • Certification Overview • 70-497 Exam Summary • Skills being measured

10. Certification Overview

11. Path to MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management Exam70-496 Administering Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 + Exam70-497 Software Testing with Visual Studio 2012 = + Exam70-498 Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management More information http://examcr.am/XFRXnR

12. Exam 70-497 Summary

13. Exam details Exam Details Page http://examcr.am/XI4CGL Exam Code 70-497 Primary Audience IT Professionals, Testers Pass mark 700 Questions 48 Release Date September 25th, 2012

14. Audience Profile • Candidates for this exam are software testers. They manage the process of running tests, creating and monitoring bugs, and managing and mitigating issues that a software organization has in controlling test coverage for project requirements. • The qualified candidate typically has: • a strong understanding of the software testing role. • a strong understanding of modern testing practices. • the ability to implement testing practices by using Microsoft technologies.

15. Skills Being Measured

16. Breakdown of key topic areas