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Application Insights – Metric Explorer – Part 1

November 3, 2014 Nov 3, 2014 11/3/14
Ketan Ghelani [MSFT]
When you drill through many of the charts from the Application Insights overview page, you get to a detailed view that we call Metrics Explorer (ME), which is the focus of this series of blog posts.  In each post of this series, I’ll cover a different set of metrics, explaining what they represent and how to instrument your code to capture ...

Cloud-based Load Testing REST APIs are here

November 2, 2014 Nov 2, 2014 11/2/14
Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]
Many of you are looking at being more agile when it comes to testing, and with increased focus on automation, there are quite a few who wants to integrate Load Testing as a regular test practice. This could be either for those validating performance of their nightly/weekly builds or those that just does not want to wait for big milestone ...

Announcing a simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience for Load Testing

October 28, 2014 Oct 28, 2014 10/28/14
Charles Sterling
A natural extension to the cloud-based load service, this simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience enables practically anyone to create and run a load test. Performance testing is often relegated to specialist performance engineers and treated as one of the niche areas of testing, where the tester needs to a proficient ...

Upcoming Changes in Visual Studio Architecture and Design Tools

October 24, 2014 Oct 24, 2014 10/24/14
Jean-Marc Prieur
Introduction This post explains some of our plans for evolving our architecture and design tools in Visual Studio, including new capabilities and changes to existing capabilities that we will be delivering in the next major release and subsequent updates. Although these plans have already been informed by an analysis of usage data and ...

New Web Access Test features walk through

October 22, 2014 Oct 22, 2014 10/22/14
Charles Sterling
I just finished a Microsoft Virtual Academy on DevOps covering new features in Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server Update 4 with Jeff Levinson and we had a couple of the attendees ask for the Excel File that we used to create the Test Cases and the shared parameters.  I decided to do one better…publish all the steps we went ...

Application Insights SDK (0.11.0-prerelease)

October 21, 2014 Oct 21, 2014 10/21/14
Joshua Weber-MSFT
What is it? Application Insights SDK lets you send telemetry to the Application Insights portal, where you can find out what users are doing with your application. 0.11.0 is the latest SDK release for Application Insights. This SDK includes new functionality and new concepts in addition to a change to the API. For information on the ...

Trigger Release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 3

October 10, 2014 Oct 10, 2014 10/10/14
Anand Gaurav
The following is applicable only for vNext pipelines of Release Management.    To trigger a release from build with Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 Update 2, you needed to install RM client on TFS build agent machine.  With Update 3, this is no longer needed. Release Management Update 3 has exposed some REST APIs to trigger ...