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August 2013 - Azure DevOps Blog

Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1 “lands”

August 27, 2013 Aug 27, 2013 08/27/13
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The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1. Looking for unit test code generation? The Visual Studio Unit Test Generator helps to increase developer productivity by decreasing the setup work involved in creating new unit tests. It takes away the routine test creation tasks allowing a ...

TFS Internal Usage Statistics – 1st Half CY 2013

August 20, 2013 Aug 20, 2013 08/20/13
Erin Dormier
Summary The following analysis includes the Microsoft IT internal offering for TFS and includes trends throughout the first half of 2013 (January – June 2013).  This only includes the TFS servers hosted by the IT offering.  Overall, we are continuing to have consistent growth in IT servers.  There have been efforts to clean up old ...

Coded UI Test Gesture support in Visual Studio 2013

August 16, 2013 Aug 16, 2013 08/16/13
Abhitej_MSFT
As part of Coded UI Test’s support for windows store apps introduced in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 as detailed in this blog , there is now playback support for touch gestures on Windows Store Apps. These gestures are only a simulation and hence one would not need to have a touch monitor to use these API’s. Currently these API&...

Releasing a Planning Poker Application and multi sprint burn down chart

August 14, 2013 Aug 14, 2013 08/14/13
Charles Sterling
The ALM MVPs were busy today as they released two different tools designed to help agile teams work better.   Sprint Burndown+ The first tool is a visual studio gallery extension called Sprint Burndown+. This extension enables development teams to view all their #sprints on a single timeline. Sprint Burndown plus not only shows all ...

ALM Readiness Treasure Map – Release 2 available in the Windows Store

August 3, 2013 Aug 3, 2013 08/3/13
Anisha Pindoria
The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the second release of the ALM Readiness Treasure Map Windows Store App, which was certified and released on August 1st and is now featured in the Windows Store.  It provides a master catalogue (treasure map) of the available ALM Readiness content to guide you through the process of ...

Visual Studio Unit Test Generator is feature complete – v1 Release Candidate lands!

August 2, 2013 Aug 2, 2013 08/2/13
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The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Release Candidate for the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator. Overview Once you’ve moved to Visual Studio 2012, what’s a developer to do without the Create Unit Tests feature? Based on the high demand on User Voice for this feature to be restored, the Visual Studio ALM ...

Visual Studio 2013 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine with Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts

August 2, 2013 Aug 2, 2013 08/2/13
Charles Sterling
While i hate simply echoing other blog posts…This one was too important to not cover. The ALM Virtual Machine (which most people refer to as the “Keller VM”) is probably the single most important Microsoft ALM training tool – used both by internal and external trainers.  Today Brian Keller(on his way to his honeymoon!!) just ...