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Verification step of Standard Environment creation fails with team foundation server Lab Management can give error “Microsoft Test Manager can not install agent on the machine because another environment is being created using the same machine”

September 5, 2013 Sep 5, 2013 09/5/13
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This issue occurs when you try to create a lab environment using a machine and another environment creation is in progress using the same machine. (image)   Cause : While environment creation is happening "TestAgentInstaller" service gets created, which does automatic agent install and configure, once these operations are done it gets ...

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 ...

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&...

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.  (image) (image) (image) It provides a master catalogue (treasure map) of the available ALM Readiness content to guide you...

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 ...

Load Testing Siebel Applications using Visual Studio

July 24, 2013 Jul 24, 2013 07/24/13
Charles Sterling
One of our premier test partners  Testhouse (Shivaram Patil and Roshin Jacob) has been working with Hosam Kamel(Microsoft regional technology solution professional and ALM Ranger) for performance testing one of our mutual enterprise customers.  The project was focused on using Visual Studio to do a performance and load testing for Seibel ...

Get started with some basic TFBuild scripts

July 23, 2013 Jul 23, 2013 07/23/13
Andy Lewis
You want to run some of your business logic during your TFBuild process. Maybe before, or maybe after Team Foundation Build (TFBuild) compiles or tests your code. For example, before you compile, you want to set the version of your assembly files. Or after you compile, you want to control the build outputs that get dropped to your staging ...