(this is a follow-up post to this one: http://sudiptopaul.blogspot.com/2011/12/using-aspnet-page-state-and-theme-to.html ) Traditionally Test Management and Test Automation tools have been remotely related to each other. Microsoft’s Test Manager changes this - Manual Testers contribute effectively by creating action recordings for each test Common portions of test steps can now be grouped into what is called as Shared Steps – again manual tester can create independent action recordings for these Test Manager enables these action recordings to serve as active inputs to test automation – separate class is created for each test case, and a reusable function for each shared step This is very elegant as it saves the test automation engineer an amount of time required to refactor common portions of longish test path recordings The Manual Tester gets to contribute in the Keyword definition phase – an important thing to do, because they are the subject matter experts! Here’s a