Sometime back I setup a client to use the Conchango Scrum template. I had to customize it for them and during that process I found that there is a TestCase workitem that was never implemented. I decided to load it into a test project to see what it offered. I was suprised to see that, while not complete, it did offer the ability to capture a nice amount of testing metrics. What else I liked about it is that it allows you to add test steps for doing manual tests. Now this is cool because the current manual test harness in TFS does not capture quite enough metrics. The other thing I like about it is that you can manage all the test cases for any Team Project in workitems. Basically add the workitems into TFS(or Excel if you know all the fields you want) then export them out into Excel and save off the workbook. Now say that for every iteration of the project, you want to run through the testcases, all you have to do is publish them back to TFS and they will be ready to go.
Grant it this workitem type needs to be customized, but it is a great start to managing testcases via workitems.
You can download them Scrum process template from http://www.conchango.com
-paul
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