Is it possible to associate automatd cases in Specflow and Selenium to Microsoft Test Manager?

Question

I have some test scenarios and cases written in Specflow/Selenium in Visual Studio, usin MsTest. I just want to associate them to Microsoft Test Manager, so a test case written there is associated to an automated test.

Is that possible? How?

More Data: test were created by using Scenario Outline with some lines of examples.

Answer 1

You can associate testcases to a workitem in TFS/MTM, but we found it to cumbersome to do: It is a manual action in MTM that references the TestMethod by name. But because the TestMethod is generated by specflow by combining the title of the Scenario Outline and the first column of your Examples table, it is difficult to maintain:

• Whenever a Scenario Outline title is changed, or the term in the first column of the examples table is changed, you have to re-couple the TestMethods to the workitems
• When you add new Examples or Scenarios to your feature, you have to remember to link them to the workitem, one-by-one
• To find the correct TestMethod in the dll is nearly undoable when you approach the thousandish scenarios.

What we did was using the WorkItem attribute in the Feature to connect (parts of) the feature to a workitem like @Workitem:42 . This is a little unnoticed feature in SpecFlow:

MsTest: Support for MSTest's [Owner] and [WorkItem] attributes with tags like @owner:foo @workitem:123 (Issue 162, Pull 161)

and it creates a WorkItemAttribute attached to the method that is connected to that tagged Scenario (Outline) or Feature .
Then, we imported all testcases into MTM with the Test Case Management tool and ran a custom made tool (making use of the TeamFoundation namespace and the TestManagement and WorkItemTracking Client) that connected each imported testcase to the correct workitem . Whenever a test did run we could see the results in MTM, but also from the perspective of the connected workitem.