Appendix C. Testing Guide

Test Guide: A Compilation from the Developer Division at Microsoft

The reference to this appendix can be found in Chapter 12, “Build Verification Tests and Smoke Tests.” This testing guide was created by the Developer Division (devdiv) at Microsoft and is intended for people who are interested in building good test plans. Some of the test conditions mentioned might be good for Smoke or BVTs, while others are just good test ideas regardless of what your code does. I hope you can find some good tips or ideas in it.

The guide is broken down into the different resource types that a program might depend on.

File Tests: Does Your Code Rely on Files?

If your code relies on files (which the majority of code written does), you should ...

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