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Asked: 2026-05-25T11:21:45+00:00

I noticed there’s an attribute Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.WorkItemAttribute available in visual studio testing (I’m using VS

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I noticed there’s an attribute Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UnitTesting.WorkItemAttribute available in visual studio testing (I’m using VS 2010 Premium and work items with TFS 2010.)

Marking a test method with a work item number sounds handy, but does it actually do anything? I can’t tell if there’s any tool support for it at all. I set one up like this:

[WorkItem(25788)]
[TestMethod]
public void TestSomethingSpecificToABug()
{
    ...

But no magic – I thought maybe the context menu on the test in the Test Results window might offer to open the work item, or Team Explorer might have a feature to search for tests. The MSDN documentation is no help either. What is this attribute good for?

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  1. Editorial Team

    According to “Software Testing with Visual Studio® 2010” by Jeff Levinson (Addison-Wesley Professional, February 2011, ISBN-10: 0-321-73448-3):

    This also means that one existing property should not be used anymore:
    Associated Work Items. This value is not reported to the data
    warehouse and therefore cannot be used for reporting. If you currently
    use this property, consider associating your test with an actual Test
    Case work item type.

    So the answer is, don’t use this with TFS 2010.

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