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February 2013 - Page 2 of 3 - Azure DevOps Blog

ALM Rangers ship the ALM Readiness treasure map

February 12, 2013 Feb 12, 2013 02/12/13
Willy-P. Schaub
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. (image) 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&...

Add bugs to the task board or backlog pages

February 12, 2013 Feb 12, 2013 02/12/13
Kathryn Elliott
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...

Light weight browser based test management and execution

February 12, 2013 Feb 12, 2013 02/12/13
Charles Sterling
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...

February CTP for Visual Studio Update 2

February 11, 2013 Feb 11, 2013 02/11/13
Charles Sterling
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 ...

DevOps virtual machine with Team Foundation Server 2012 and System Center 2012 now available

February 7, 2013 Feb 7, 2013 02/7/13
Charles Sterling
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 / ...

Debugging Unhandled Exceptions in a SharePoint App with Visual Studio using IntelliTrace

February 5, 2013 Feb 5, 2013 02/5/13
Tim Varcak (MSFT)
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 “...