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Planning and Tracking – Flat TOC

Sometimes 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 - it does represent the most often viewed topics and those which can take you deeper...

5 hour IntelliTrace Course is now available online

Marcel 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.&#...

Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter

I 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 *******************************republishing below*********************************     New unit testing ...

Team Foundation Service: Process template changes

With 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. - For Scrum...

TestArchitect by LogiGear offers module-based keyword test authoring for Visual Studio 2012

In 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. By eliminating coding, keyword ...

10+ Free ALM Webcasts on TFS 2012, Load Testing from the Cloud, Managing Labs, Branching, Kanban and MORE!

Imaginet has more ALM MVPs working for them than any single company on the planet…So when they do community activities they do them BIG. Here is their current list of free ALM Webcasts….   (image) Upgrading to TFS 2012: What You Need to Know! Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 brings a number of new features into the integrated ALM ...

How do I get my Visual Studio 2012 feature video links back?

One of the projects I worked on for Visual Studio 2012 was the feature Videos that show up both in the Ultimate and Premium start pages AND and in the features themselves. As you may have noticed the video links in the features give you the option to “Don’t show this again” at which point the the links and text disappear –forever. (...