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May 2013 - Azure DevOps Blog

Blog Updates

May 30, 2013 May 30, 2013 05/30/13
Anisha Pindoria
You may have noticed some updates to the blog today. We’ve made a few changes to better accommodate how readers are using the blog. Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the ALM team blog, both in terms of readership as well as the volume of content being posted. While we’re happy to have this increase in ...

Final ALM Certification Jumpstarts May 28th and May 29th

May 21, 2013 May 21, 2013 05/21/13
Anisha Pindoria
Earlier this month Anthony Borton, Lead ALM Consultant at Enhance ALM, and Steven Borg, Co-founder and Strategist at Northwest Cadence, delivered a very successful Jumpstart for Microsoft Virtual Academy. This FREE day-long online session helped prepare attendees prepare for exam 70-498:  Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio ...

Announcing the ability to Test Windows Phone 8 applications with Experitest SeeTest

May 17, 2013 May 17, 2013 05/17/13
Charles Sterling
For testing Heterogeneous and mobile environments we have relied on world class partners. SeeTest from Experitest now enables Microsoft developers test mobile applications inc WIndowsPhone8, iOS, Android and Blackberry. Experitest is a recognized leader in mobile testing and touts several powerful benefits with the latest release of SeeTest...

Enabling seamless integration with Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Professional and HP ALM with Opshub v5.3

May 16, 2013 May 16, 2013 05/16/13
Charles Sterling
*Today I am happy to announce that in addition to the bi-direction synchronization between the HP ALM - TFS systems, OpsHub’s newest release v5.3 has added integration with test case management and tracking features. * **Easy 3 step configuration **      OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM) provides for easy configuration, mapping and ...

Known Issue and Workaround for TFS 2012 Update 3 RC1

May 15, 2013 May 15, 2013 05/15/13
AndreaMS
UPDATE - This issue has been fixed in TFS 2012 Update 3 RC2, which is available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2835600 This post is to report a known issue with alerts in Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 3 RC1.  There is a partial workaround, which should be applied to the configuration database BEFORE upgrade to RC1 if ...

Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 now available

May 7, 2013 May 7, 2013 05/7/13
Anisha Pindoria
The Visual Studio Updates are a new 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.  To download this latest update please ...

Cloning test plans using Microsoft Test Manager

May 3, 2013 May 3, 2013 05/3/13
Nitin Gurram
In Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced the capability to clone test plans in Microsoft Test Manager. This feature lets you clone test plan artifacts within a given team project, by creating copies of all the test cases, shared steps and requirements, recreating the same suite structure and applying the same test settings, environments, ...