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Is there any way of exporting Test Cases and Shared Steps from one project to another in TFS 2012 using database queries?
I have tried TFS Integration tool, but it did not work as I expected, so I was wondering if there is any way of doing this by connecting to SQL Server and exporting all items directly from and to the databases.
You shouldn’t work directly in the database, because it is not supported by Microsoft and you could harm it a lot.
I used the TFS Integration Platform tools a lot for migrating TFS2010 projects, but never used it for TFS2012. My experience with that were good and it shouldn’t be a problem to migrate all Test Cases and Shared Steps into another TeamProject. If you have the same Work Item Type Definitions in both projects, you don’t need to create field mappings.
Another option would be to use Excel as “Export” and “Import” cache, but you might loose some information, because not everything could be shown in Excel, e.g. Steps of a TestCase, the history, Work Item Links.
If you are skilled in programming using TFS API, you could write your own small migrator, but this could be a lot of effort.
All in all the TFS Integration Platform should be the easiest and best way, so what have been your expectations that have not been fulfilled?