I'm reading Osherove's "The Art of Unit Testing," and though I've not yet seen him say anything about performance testing, two thoughts still cross my mind:

• Performance tests generally can't be unit tests, because performance tests generally need to run for long periods of time.
• Performance tests generally can't be unit tests, because performance issues too often manifest at an integration or system level (or at least the logic of a single unit test needed to re-create the performance of the integration environment would be too involved to be a unit test).

Particularly for the first reason stated above, I doubt it makes sense for performance tests to be handled by a unit testing framework (such as NUnit).

My question is: do my findings / leanings correspond with the thoughts of the community?

I have written bunch of Selenium tests using C# over .Net/Windows 10 laptop. I want to run these tests on safari browser in the same Windows 10 laptop. I am wondering how do i do that since Safari for windows is no longer available from Apple

Is it possible to

Find a Docker container which can run Safari browser ?
Install a virtual machine of some sort that will run iOS and therefore will have a Safari browser. Then I setup a Selenium Grid hub on that VM and hit the grid from windows maching using C#/Selenium scripts. But I am not sure how to do this
Please advise. Some hints will be useful.

It’s easy to create a test case chart:

Test case owners are tracked by the Assigned to field. Use a stacked bar chart or a pivot table chart. Choose Assigned to for rows and status for the columns.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/test/track-test-status?view=azure-devops

For this issue , I am afraid it is currently not supported in azure devops. Compared with manual testing, integrating automatic testing in the pipeline is more in line with the CI/CD concept. Adding a manual test is more of a requirement. In addition, the default timeout for the pipeline is 60min. If the wait time for the manual test times out, it may cause a failure.

So we can't directly incorporate manual tests in pipelines. The workaround provided by Nima is an indirect way.

If you really need this feature,you could submit a feature request to Develop Community site.

What is the best QA test automation tool that can use to automate UI related QA tests ?
We use ASP.net MVC 3.0 and Jenkins for CI server.