We are pleased to announce that we have released the version of the Windows Store reference application that delivers the ALM Readiness treasure map to your Surface and other Windows 8 devices. Both the paper based map and the Windows Store application allow you to explore the ALM guidance delivered by the ALM Rangers, DPE, PFE, p&p and othe...
Some teams like to track bugs as tasks and other teams track them as backlog items, such as user stories or requirements. If you’re using a Scrum project, bugs are already in your backlog. However, if your team project was created using the Agile, CMMI, or other process template, bugs don't appear on the task board or the backlog pages. Thi...
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Visual Studio Update 2 added a light weight browser based test management to the already set of rich test features in the Visual Studio family. The goal of these test features are to enable development teams an easy way of viewing and editing test cases, give manual testers a way of testing (both Windows and non-Windows) environments without needi...
Visual Studio Updates are a mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also offer an easy way to deploy bug fixes. In Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 we are focusing on Mo...
Hands down one of the best training tools Microsoft has for Application Lifecycle Tools is Brian Keller’s virtual machines. Today Brian released another of these virtual machines -this one focused on the integration between System Center 2012 Operations Manager and Team Foundation Server 2012. In addition to the hands-on-lab / demo scri...
// <!-- Create, Connect, and Publish using Visual Studio with Git --> By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik (MS) In the few days since we announced Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service support for Git, it's been exciting to see so much interest, along with a lot of great feedback and questions. We will take your feedback to help us guid...
Following on from our last blog post on IntelliTrace enhancements for SharePoint, in this blog post we’ll talk about how the new analysis section for SharePoint can help you find the source of issues faster. The New Analysis Section IntelliTrace is very good at providing a lot of data to you for debugging, but there is such a thing as “too much” ...
Unfortunately we don’t have a level above MVP is for recognizing community contributions; if we did Tarun would clearly have achieved that award too. Thanks for the post Tarun! ************************************ Microsoft has just switched the flag ON and released a whole bunch of new features in CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 rele...
