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You no longer have to rely solely on experience and code reviews to find code problems; FxCop can find many problems for you. It even lets you create and enforce custom rules that apply specifically to your organization's code.

Ranorex is a Windows GUI test and automation library for C++, Python and for all .NET languages. Applications and websites can be automated using Python script or a .NET program. All new Visual Studio 2005 controls are supported and can be automated.

Learn to use Visual Studio Team Edition's built-in unit test generation and code coverage analysis capabilities to ensure all your code gets tested.

This test tool helps developers of Windows Mobile applications test various security policies for Windows Mobile devices.

It is designed as a desktop application that ships with a preset list of "security configurations". A security configuration can be thought of as a template, which contains a collection of individual policies and settings. For example, a security configuration could define policies such as whether unsigned applications are allowed to execute, whether RAPI is disabled etc. Using this tool, the developer can provision a Windows Mobile device with different configurations, and then test the application's behavior under these configurations. This tool can be used either on an emulator or an unlocked Windows Mobile device.

Effective techniques are revealed to developers and testers on testing Web Services for reliability and robustness. These techniques demonstrate how a user can push the boundary of testing Web Services intelligently, without having access to the source code to a Web Service.

A simple solution to see the inside of your code.

Find out how to incorporate Visual Studio Team System into Test-Driven development practices emphasized in Agile development methodologies.

This article adds some handy reporting capabilities to the new load testing tool in Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

This article discusses a new load test tool in Visual Studio 2005 Team System for performance and stress testing your Web sites, Web services, and other server components. Combined with its handy reporting capabilities, the load test tool provides some powerful options for sharing and managing test results.

Stress testing involves running tests under conditions of reduced machine or system resources. To reduce these resources for testing, you can run a tool called a stressor. This month we cover such a tool: EatMem.