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Automatic linking work items to builds

August 25, 2017 Aug 25, 2017 08/25/17

Smitha Saligrama- MSFT

The “Automatic linking of a build with associated work items” feature was released in TFS 2017 Update 2 (see the Release Notes). In a nutshell, this feature allows users to track builds that have incorporated their work without having to manually search through a large set of builds. For a richer, more first-class experience, we decided ...

Visual Studio Test Platform – upcoming changes to data collectors

August 24, 2017 Aug 24, 2017 08/24/17

Pratap Lakshman

Having executed a test - at a minimum - we want to know the outcome. But beyond that, we may want to know more. Data collectors and loggers are the key extension mechanisms intended to provide this and other such details for rich reporting. Data collectors and loggers generate information based on listening to events raised during test ...

The future of our TFS/SharePoint Integration

August 21, 2017 Aug 21, 2017 08/21/17

Gregg Boer

(Updated September 12, 2017) We have now published a full set of documentation that covers SharePoint integration for both TFS 2017 (and earlier versions) and TFS 2018. Also, the following solutions are no longer in private preview: Team Foundation Server (TFS) has provided SharePoint integration since its inception ...

The TestContainer Capability

August 18, 2017 Aug 18, 2017 08/18/17

Pratap Lakshman

Updating off pre-RTM bits once RTM ships ought to be routine. But if you have not already done so in the case of the .NET Core based Test projects, let me give you a reason to do so. vstest delegates discovery and execution of tests to test-framework-specific adapters. Adapters indicate the kind of test containers that they can process – ...

Git vulnerability with submodules

August 15, 2017 Aug 15, 2017 08/15/17

Edward Thomson

The Git community has disclosed a serious security vulnerability in Git that can lead to arbitrary code execution. This has been assigned CVE 2017-1000117. The Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) team takes security issues very seriously. We encourage all users to update their Git clients as soon as possible to address this issue...

DevOps Self Assessment from DORA, ITRev and MS

August 11, 2017 Aug 11, 2017 08/11/17

Sam Guckenheimer

Nicole Forsgren, Gene Kim, participants of the DevOps Enterprise Forum and I collaborated on a free starter self-assessment for your team's DevOps performance. It's now available at https://DevOpsAssessment.net. (image) As input, we used the research from the State of DevOps Reports (presented by DORA and Puppet) that Nicole has been ...

What’s new in VSTS Sprint 121 Update

August 9, 2017 Aug 9, 2017 08/9/17

Alex Nichols

The Sprint 121 Update of Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) is rolling out more broadly to accounts this week and includes Wiki in public preview and many features to make your workflow more integrated and consistent. Wiki, now included with every project, leverages the simplified editing experience of markdown syntax to write pages that help...

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