Testing and Traceability

The queries and user interface that associate work items with a test are the same throughout Visual Studio Team System. This integration between testing and work items helps your team express the relationships between the actual work that they do and the work items that express the planned work in the project. Because many work items must be handled by more than one person, like the tester who found a bug and the developer who must fix it, these queries also help the members of your team to work together seamlessly. If a test satisfies the conditions of more than one work item, this relationship can also be expressed.

A test associated with several work items