Microsoft Test Professional allows testers to capture their testing activities as a video and include that video content as part of a bug report or as validation evidence that a test case passed. However, I noticed that this feature does not “just work” out of the box. It requires some additional installation and configuration.

You should follow these steps to setup Test Professional 2010 for video capture:

Step One: install the required software. You need to install the 32-bit version of the Windows Media Encoder. Of course, you need to download this application first (link to download encoder). The actual link you need to download is highlighted in the image below .

Step Two: If you are running Windows 7 (or Vista) you also need to install the Windows Media Encoder update. You can get this update here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929182. You need to run the update as Administrator (right-click, Run as Administrator).

Step Three: Once Windows Media Encoder and the update is installed, you need to open Test Professional and configure your tests to capture video. To start, select “Organize” from the top of the tool. This will take you to the “Test Plan Manager”. Here you should see your test plans. You need to open the test plan for which you intend to configure video capture. The screen show below shows an example.

Step Four: From the Test Plan, look for Test settings. You should have a drop-down that allows you to set a group of settings that can be applied to one or more test plans. Select the test settings group you wish to edit (or create a new one) and click the “Open” link. An example is shown below:

Step Five: Inside the test settings screen, select “Data and Diagnostics” on the left side of the form. Scroll down to “Video Recorder” and select the check box. The image below shows an example. Note that you can also click the Configure button to indicate if you wish to save videos for passed tests and at what point the video should recycle during a recording.

Step Six: The next step is to do some testing. When you start your tests, however, you need to choose “Start and record”. The image below shows an example of running test cases against a website using a video recording.

Step Seven: You can now just test and the video will be captured based on your settings. This includes a video stored against the test results and available for developers when bugs are logged. For example, the image below shows how you create a new bug while testing.

Notice that when you log the bug, each step in the repro steps includes a link to the section of the related video that relates to that step. The image below shows an example.

Step Eight: You can now view the video. It can be viewed by a developer when the open the bug in Visual Studio. The following image shows the bug and video link.

You can also link to the video in the test results. Open these results from Test Professional and notice the video links. The following image shows an example.

Clicking on any of the video links will launch the actual video content at the relevant point in the video that corresponds to the step or bug. The following image shows the video running.

Hope this helps!