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January 2012 - Azure DevOps Blog

Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback

January 31, 2012 Jan 31, 2012 01/31/12
Tapas Sahoo [MSFT]
In this blog post I’ll go through some approaches you can make use of in your Coded UI Test project to achieve better playback performance. Meanwhile, do check an earlier post here that covers some common scenarios.  As I see, there are lot of APIs and settings available that the Coded UI Test user can leverage to hand-code a more ...

Queensland ALM UserGroup Meeting Feb 3rd in Brisbane

January 31, 2012 Jan 31, 2012 01/31/12
Charles Sterling
Anthony Borton looks like he is hosting another great User group this month with Andrew Harcourt and Software Project Rescue: A Fairy TaleFriday, February 3, 2012 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM (GMT+1000)Brisbane, QueenslandMicrosoft Office - South Stradbroke Island Room Level 28 400 George Street Brisbane, Queensland 4000 Australia ...

Team Foundation Service Preview – Configure a master backlog and sub-teams

January 27, 2012 Jan 27, 2012 01/27/12
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 One backlog to rule them all…One common practice we’ve seen our customers use is to have a master backlog, which “feeds” several teams. The master backlog is prioritized and maintained, and when it comes time to plan for the next sprint, all the teams gather together and “sign up” for backlog items to...

Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey

January 19, 2012 Jan 19, 2012 01/19/12
Shubhra Maji MSFT
Have you used Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools - Coded UI Test or Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) in your project(s)? If so, we would like to hear your experience with these features. Let us know what you think by taking the Coded UI / Microsoft Test Manager Survey.Thanks!Shubhra Maji – Visual Studio Test Tools Program Manager...

What are Your Top Tasks When Using Microsoft Developer Technologies?

January 16, 2012 Jan 16, 2012 01/16/12
Esther Fan
If you're a current or potential Microsoft customer, please take this short, anonymous survey (10 to 15 minutes) to rank the importance of tasks that you perform when you use Microsoft developer technologies. Your feedback will help us create MSDN documentation that meets your needs. To provide feedback, go to the survey page. Thanks...

FAQ: Why are my tests not included in the test run?

January 16, 2012 Jan 16, 2012 01/16/12
Gautam Goenka [MSFT]
As an alternative to Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), users can use tcm.exe command line to run and manage their test cases.  The command line way is particularly useful in running tests in non-interactive way (say via scripts). FAQ: While using “tcm.exe run” command to run all the test cases in a test plansuite is - A: By default...

Microsoft Test Manager stuck in “waiting for test controller” state

January 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012 01/1/12
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This is guest post by Deepak Mittal, who is Senior Support Engineer in this space.Problem description:Microsoft Test Manager is stuck in "waiting for test controller" status after completion of test execution.Resolution: MTM tracing: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/gautamg/archive/2011/01/20/how-to-enable-tracing-for-mtm.aspx...

How To: Associate automation programmatically

January 1, 2012 Jan 1, 2012 01/1/12
Gautam Goenka [MSFT]
In my previous post, I mentioned about tcm testcase /import scenario.  The tcm testcase /import associates the test case artifact with automation (which is unit test or other test type). Another FAQ related to this scenario is - Q: How can I programmatically associate automation (because I want to do some customization of my own)? A: ...