Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2026

Drive quality and collaboration throughout the development process.

Publicado por Microsoft

Versão: 2026

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On December 31, 2021 Microsoft discontinued their 2-Year Open Business licensing plans for Visual Studio/MSDN for new licenses and renewals. After 30-Dec-2021, New Visual Studio licenses are 3 Year Open Licenses. For renewals of existing 2 year subscription licenses, Microsoft is allowing customers that haven’t expired to renew their subscriptions to the 3-year Open Value license plan, as they...

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On December 31, 2021 Microsoft discontinued their 2-Year Open Business licensing plans for Visual Studio/MSDN for new licenses and renewals. After 30-Dec-2021, New Visual Studio licenses are 3 Year Open Licenses. For renewals of existing 2 year subscription licenses, Microsoft is allowing customers that haven’t expired to renew their subscriptions to the 3-year Open Value license plan, as they near expiration.

Microsoft Visual Studio Subscriptions are available in the following editions:

Sobre o Microsoft Visual Studio Test Professional 2026

Drive quality and collaboration throughout the development process.

The Visual Studio 2026 Test Professional with MSDN Subscription is Microsoft’s dedicated quality-assurance and test-planning edition, designed for testers, QA teams, and organizations needing robust test management rather than full development tools. Unlike a conventional IDE-centric edition, this subscription focuses on manual and automated test planning, execution, bug-tracking, environment provisioning and integration with DevOps pipelines. Subscribers also gain access to a broad library of Microsoft software (ideal for test labs), monthly Azure dev/test credits, professional support, and training resources. This makes it a strong fit for teams verifying software across environments, automating test pipelines, or managing test workflows at scale — all while staying aligned with the broader Microsoft ecosystem.

The core of Test Professional is a comprehensive test-management suite. You get tools for creating and organizing test cases, defining test plans and test runs, capturing pass/fail results, rich commenting, bug reporting, and linking tests to work items in issue-tracking systems. This simplifies manual testing workflows and ensures clear traceability between tests and defects.

Integration with cloud and DevOps infrastructure is built-in: subscribers receive monthly Azure dev/test individual credits (e.g., to spin up virtual machines or test servers), and can leverage cloud-based resources for testing rather than local hardware.

Additionally, the subscription provides access to a substantial library of Microsoft software downloads, enabling creation of diverse test environments (e.g., different Windows versions, database servers, and server-side products) for compatibility testing, QA, and environment replication.

The MSDN Subscription brings extras: training resources and partner-provided content (such as courses from providers like Cloud Academy or Pluralsight), discounted or included access to dev/test versions of Microsoft server software, and a limited number of technical support incidents for assistance.

Importantly, Test Professional is not a full IDE license, it doesn’t include compiler, debugging or build-tools, it’s focused entirely on testing, QA workflows, test-lab provisioning, and test-management.