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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
September 30, 2012Sep 30, 201209/30/12I have had a couple of people ask me about these new downloads appearing in MSDN downloads simply called something like: CTP of Quarterly Update for Visual Studio 2012 (x86) – (English).
Unfortunately these downloads contained no description other than:
“Statement of Support: This release has not been subject to final verification and validation,
September 30, 2012Sep 30, 201209/30/12Chris Kinsman wrote a great article on where to use PreEmptive Analytics for Team Foundation Server with best practices, implementation considerations etc etc for MSDN Magazine.
The best part i found of this article was the tutorial on getting started. In talking to Chris i mentioned i would love to have a quick and dirty “primer” on the ALM Blog.
September 28, 2012Sep 28, 201209/28/12Sometimes it’s nice to see what’s available all on one page. Here’s a flat TOC of the Planning and Tracking Projects content for VS ALM Team Foundation Server 2012. While this view doesn’t represent all the topics available under the Planning and Tracking node –
September 28, 2012Sep 28, 201209/28/12You can use the following keyboard shortcuts within Team Web Access or Team Explorer.
You can use the ARROW keys to change the focus. Use the ARROW keys to navigate within lists, menus, to expand/collapse hierarchical data, or to scroll the page.
Change focus
Key/mouse action
Move the focus up or down within a list
UP ARROW or DOWN ARROW
Move the focus left or right,
September 28, 2012Sep 28, 201209/28/12Marcel de Vries was one of the first people outside of Microsoft to receive Intellitrace builds, involved with almost as much of the planning as the feature PM (Larry Guger) and managed to find and file the first external bug on Intellitrace – so it is no wonder that it was Marcel PluralSight went to write their 5 hour Intellitrace course.
September 26, 2012Sep 26, 201209/26/12I have recently had a couple of requests on how to run a subset of your tests; indicating that people haven’t see the blog post by Vikram Agrawal [MSFT] titled: Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter
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September 24, 2012Sep 24, 201209/24/12I’ve had a few people ask: “What if I estimate my tasks in something other than hours, like ideal days or story points?”
The truth of the matter is, the “Remaining Work” field on the Task work item is just a dumb integer.
September 19, 2012Sep 19, 201209/19/12With this latest Team Foundation Service update, we have updated the process template versions for all the templates. Agile and CMMI are at 6.1. Scrum is at 2.1. This reflects a few minor improvements we’ve made:
– For Agile, the User Story’s state model has been updated to allow you to transition from any state to any other state.
September 17, 2012Sep 17, 201209/17/12In collaboration with my team here at Microsoft, LogiGear developed a keyword-driven automation platform exclusively as a Visual Studio extension for efficient large-scale test automation.
TestArchitect for Visual Studio uses module-based keyword test authoring to automate coded UI tests in Visual Studio 2012.
September 14, 2012Sep 14, 201209/14/12This release supports Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012.
Included in this release:
Best Practices Analyzer
Process Template Editor
Team Explorer Enhancements
Team Foundation Power Tool Command Line (tfpt.exe)
Team Foundation Server Backups
Test Attachment Cleaner
Windows PowerShell Cmdlets
Windows Shell Extensions
Work Item Templates
For a detail description of this release please see:
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Power Tools on codeplex
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b1ef7eb2-e084-4cb8-9bc7-06c3bad9148f
