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Free Webinar on Professional Scrum Development by Richard Hundhausen March 18 2:00 PM PST

March 16th, 2015
Good friend, noted author and fellow car fanatic is offering a webinar on Scrum development.See you there! Pro Scrum Development: A Conversation with Richard Hundhausen In this new webinar from Microsoft we will introduce you to the guy who literally wrote the book on Professional Scrum Development, Richard Hundhausen.  In this ...

Getting started with Cloud-based Load Test REST APIs

December 4th, 2014
REST API’s are pretty cool, enabling you to do things like write your own custom reports, write your own interfaces and of course integrating load tests into your build.  Looking at the sample referenced with our REST API documentation; at 400 lines to demonstrate 4 API’s I must admit I found it pretty daunting so I thought I would see ...

Announcing Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 Availability

November 12th, 2014
Last couple of weeks have been pretty crazy; in addition to the launching the new browser based Load Test Authoring experience at TechEd Europe, hosting the MVP summit, getting Update 4 released we have been working on getting Visual Studio 2015 Preview ready for you.   If you want a sneak of Visual Studio 2015 Preview in action be sure and ...

Announcing DevOps style deployments using Visual Studio 2015 Preview and Azure

November 12th, 2014
While most teams realize integrating the development processes with the operation processes can return a ton of value –such as decreased release cycle times and much improved response times to live sight incidents most teams aren’t integrated due to the tools. With Visual Studio 2015 and Azure SDK 2.5 can now deploy your applications to an...

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

October 28th, 2014
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 ...

New Web Access Test features walk through

October 22nd, 2014
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 ...

Now available Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 ALM Virtual Machine and how to connect it to Visual Studio Online

September 19th, 2014
The Visual Studio ALM Virtual Machine is one of the primary (and best) tools for delivering ALM training and presentations we have at Microsoft and today Brian Keller announced that today we’ve published a new version of this great tool: Visual Studio 2013 Update 3 ALM Virtual Machine. This virtual machine includes several updates to the...

A smorgasbord of great Webinars including: Performance and Load Testing Sept 18th

September 17th, 2014
Steve Borg and Northwest Cadence has been doing a bunch of cutting work DevOps content and would love to share it w/ the world! Their new series kicks off tomorrow (Sept 18th) with:   Performance and Load Testing Performance and load testing are critical components of building high quality and scalable software. Visual Studio ...

New Intellitrace article from Testing Experience: Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace

September 8th, 2014
If you don’t have a free subscription to Testing Experience  yet now is definitely a great time to sign up as they have a new article on Intellitrace!   Always Know What’s Going On Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace Software development can be nerve-wracking. As a developer, you often ...

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server Update 4 CTP 1 now available

September 2nd, 2014
If you have been looking forward to the last set of Visual Studio Online Features to become available to Team Foundation Server your wait is OVER!  You can find many of your favorite Visual Studio Online features in the first Technology Preview for Update 4 (CTP 1); to download it please see: Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 1. To ...