Now, I am no @ZainNab, the guru of “Tips and Tricks”, but I occasionally run across features that have been staring me in the face for YEARS and yet somehow went completely unappreciated, sometimes unnoticed. And then one day it hits me and OMG my life is easier, and I want to tell everyone. Sure, it’s a bit embarrassing to admit sometimes given that I worked at Microsoft for 5.5 years focusing on the Visual Studio tools, but who hasn’t done that? Not you? Really? I am skeptical… There are after all, a bajillion commands to try and remember. For real, if you don’t believe me, look at the entire book that Sara Ford and Zain wrote about it. It’s worth every penny and Amazon has a great deal on it, pick up a copy! 
So, back to my point. I was sitting in MTM, looking at a fairly daunting list of PBI based test suites, thinking “now which PBI’s were the ones where I had test cases to run again?” I started thinking about writing a query, but that only helps is YOU are assigned to the test case, it doesn’t really help with test RUN assignment. Then it all came flooding back. Wait, there’s this FILTER button to sort that out. And conveniently it’s right there in front of my face ::face palm:: I felt a little better when no one else admitted to noticing it was there either. Maybe they were just being nice to me. Either way, in case you didn’t notice it, check it out. Before:
After, I have MUCH fewer test suites that I have to look at:
That’s my Microsoft Test Manager tip o’ the day! I won’t be posting them every day like Zain has been doing on his blog around Visual Studio 2010 for the past couple of years, of course I also don’t mainline 5 hour energy like he does I will do them whenever I can. Hope this was helpful! Feel free to post any tips of your own or shoot me a note if you have other questions or comments.