Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 added a light weight browser-based test management to the already set of rich test features in ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 added a light weight browser-based test management to the already set of rich test features in the Visual Studio family.  These test features provide easy viewing and editing of test cases, and give manual testers a way of testing (both Windows and non-Windows) environments without installing anything. This enables end users to execute tests on their own computers.  

To make it easier to edit test cases there is a viewing option to open these test cases on the right or bottom of your browser when the test case is selected. Plan level filtering enables the development team members to set a filter criteria to determine which test cases are displayed.  The selection criteria includes outcome and tester. 

Web based test case management also enables development team members to easily remove non-applicable test cases a from a test plan via a simple right click. 

Enabling manual testers to run tests in their environment without needing to install anything in the environment is a core scenario for the new web based test management features in Visual Studio Update 2.  Since it is web based you can run these tests on practically any computer and test practically anything.  

Web based test case management was introduced with the January CTP; the ability to pause test case execution and resume it later (even days/weeks, after reboots and even on a different machine!) was added in the February Visual Studio Update 2 CTP.  If you edit a test case while paused the test case will remember and resume the version that was initially paused - not resume the updated definition.  

Web based test case management works without install anything on the machine being tested; in Visual Studio Update 2, the ability to save attachments of helpful diagnostic information (such as screen shots) from the machine being tested that will help with the fixing of discovered issues. 

Windows 8 applications can easily be tested by snapping the new Windows 8 Internet Explorer in the desktop and using the remaining space to test a Windows 8 Step Application (without needing to install the remote debugging tools.) Of course this remaining space could be used to test any application that could run or emulated from Windows or a browser.