informit.com have featured an extract from a new Visual Studio Software testing book.

The book is titled Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010: Planning Your Testing and published by Addison-Wesley Professional

To begin, you need a plan. The plan does not need to be 500 pages of documentation or a massive Gantt chart. This chapter covers how to create a Test Plan with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) and the various options that the Test Plan provides to you. More important, this chapter covers what to test and how to get involved as a tester early in the development process. In addition, Microsoft provides a little-used Test Plan Word template that can help answer some questions about the testing process up front.

Another key item covered here is how to plan and test for multiple iterations. Can you reuse your Test Cases, and does it make sense to do that? Many items come into play when planning the testing for an entire release versus a single iteration. By the end of this chapter, you will know how to use the Plan tab of MTM, create new plans, and create a framework for testers to work in for a given period of time.

COMUnit is a unit testing framework based on the architecture of JUnit, the de facto open source standard for creating unit tests. COMUnit is a Visual Basic port of the JUnit framework that is designed to facilitate developing unit tests for Microsoft COM components and Visual Basic applications.