October 2016 | Azure DevOps Blog

Test & Feedback – Collaborate with your team

Aaron HallbergOctober 19, 2016Oct 19, 201610/19/16

In the previous blogs, we have gone through the first two steps – Capture your findings and Create artifacts. In this blog, we will take you through the third step i.e. Collaborate. Test & Feedback extension provides many ways in which teams can collaborate with one another to drive the quality. You can use the extension to share your ...

Code Search is now Java friendly

Shruti Poddar [MSFT]October 17, 2016Oct 17, 201610/17/16

In addition to C#, C, C++, and Visual Basic code, you can now do semantic searches across Java code. Adding to our Java feature set and capabilities, we recently enabled contextual search for Java files in the Code Search extension for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server starting with TFS “15”. You can apply code type ...

UML Designers have been removed; Layer Designer now supports live architectural analysis

Jean-Marc PrieurOctober 14, 2016Oct 14, 201610/14/16

We are removing the UML designers from Visual Studio "15" Enterprise. Removing a feature is always a hard decision, but we want to ensure that our resources are invested in features that deliver the most customer value. Our reasons are twofold: If you are a significant user of the UML designers, you can continue to use Visual Studio...

Maven and Gradle build tasks support powerful code analysis tools

Bogdan GavrilOctober 12, 2016Oct 12, 201610/12/16

Over the last few months we have been steadily building up the capabilities of the Maven and Gradle build tasks to offer insights into code quality through popular code analysis tools. We are pleased to announce additional much-requested features that we are bringing to these tasks, which will make it easier to understand and control technical...

Test & Feedback extension – Create artifacts

Pankaj KhanzodeOctober 12, 2016Oct 12, 201610/12/16

In the previous blog "Test & Feedback - Capture your findings", we discussed the full “Capture” capability of the Test & Feedback extension. Once all the findings have been captured, the next step is to create rich actionable work items that can be consumed by the team. In this blog we will focus on the “Create” step and the ...

Test & Feedback – Capture your findings

Pankaj KhanzodeOctober 11, 2016Oct 11, 201610/11/16

Test & Feedback extension allows everyone in team, be it developers, testers, product owners, user experience, leads/managers etc. to contribute to quality of the application, thus making it a “team sport”. It enables you to perform exploratory tests or drive your bug bashes, without requiring predefined test cases or test steps. This ...

Team Services October Extensions Roundup – Rugged DevOps

Joe BourneOctober 11, 2016Oct 11, 201610/11/16

This month the focus is on making your DevOps environment rugged. According to Puppet, teams leveraging DevOps are deploying 200x more frequently and leveraging 90% more OSS components. Many of these teams, however, have not integrated security into their processes. The teams who have, spend 50% less time fixing security issues later. With ...

Parallel Test Execution

Pratap LakshmanOctober 10, 2016Oct 10, 201610/10/16

An early post on Parallel Test Execution drew attention to its subtle semantics. Three considerations directly contributed to that (1) Reach (2) Composability (3) Non-disruptive roll out. The Visual Studio Test Platform is open and extensible, with tests written using various test frameworks and run using a variety of adapters. To reduce on-...

Announcing General Availability for Code Search

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]October 10, 2016Oct 10, 201610/10/16

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Code Search in Visual Studio Team Services. Code Search is available for Team Foundation Server “15” as well. What’s more? Code Search can be added to any Team Services account for free. By installing this extension through the Visual Studio Marketplace, any user with access...

Tracking branch health and identifying flaky tests in RM driven test automation

Abhishek AgrawaiOctober 10, 2016Oct 10, 201610/10/16

In my previous blog post, I had written about how we have a single Release Definition for our team which runs all the test environments in parallel. Now that Release Management supports branch based filters while listing releases, it is very easy to track the health of a particular branch. Further, with the work the test team has ...

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