As we continue to innovate on the operating system platform with Windows 8, we also enhanced the toolset available in Visual Studio to increase your productivity in testing your Windows 8 apps. Ensuring a top notch quality of your app in this new modern OS environment through thoughtful design and testing will help increase the success of your app. In a previous blog post on
Testing Metro style apps in Windows 8, we highlighted some of the key areas you need to take into account for building a high quality Windows 8 app. In this post, we explore a few capabilities in Visual Studio 2012 that will make the testing and verification of your app easier.
[h=2]How does my app look on Windows 8 devices?[/h] While the success of any app hinges on the value it offers to its customers, an app that follows
Windows 8 design guideline to provide a polished look and feel will delight the end users. To reduce your reliance on physical devices to verify the app’s user experience, Visual Studio 2012 provides a
simulator so you don’t have to connect to a tablet device all the time during development. The simulator also reduces your need to have physical devices of every form factor at your disposal for testing. Your testing benefits in these areas where the simulator enables quick and convenient verification of your apps’ look and feel with just a few mouse clicks:
