Unfortunately we don’t have a level above MVP is for recognizing community contributions; if we did Tarun would clearly have achieved that award too. Thanks for the post Tarun! ************************************   Microsoft has just switched the flag ON and released a whole bunch of new features in CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 rele...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 includes support for unit testing managed Windows Store apps and includes unit test library templates for Visual C#, Visual Basic and Visual C++. For more information about these, see Creating and Running Unit Tests for Windows Store Apps. The namespace Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestPlatform.UnitTestFramework contains a ri...

I was chatting w/ Anna Russo at the ALM Summit and just found she has done another GREAT tool for Testers - Auto Create Test Cases from PBI Acceptance Criteria Here is the excerpt from her Visual Studio Gallery Posthttp://www.improvingsoftwarequality.com/2013/01/new-tfs-tester-power-tool-auto-create.html*********************************************...

With the ALM Summit next week the Cloud Analytics Team would love to have a conversation with customers building Cloud based applications for our vNext planning efforts (i.e. talk to one of the teams working on the next generation of Visual Studio!). Please NOTE: Since we will be discussing our next generation of development tools this will be an N...

Slow news day here at Microsoft; trolling my inbox noticed two things that might be of interest to the ALM Community. Using the C++ Unit Testing Framework targeting the 2010 complier and we have (found and) updated the “Team Foundation Server Migration and Integration Solutions page on MSDN”.  Visual Studio 2012  C++ CppUnitTe...

Crazy week around here with everybody finishing up their sprints before the holidays! Three new exciting downloads and a new Channel9 Video on the Visual Studio Update1 for you over the Holidays!   Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack The Team Foundation Server 2012 Monitoring Management Pack provides bo...

For anybody looking for training on the Microsoft Application Lifecycle tools one of the absolute best resources is Brian Keller’s ALM virtual machine.  Full details about the virtual machine can be found here: https://aka.ms/vs11almvm   The Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 ALM virtual machine and 21 hands-on-labs / demo scripts are now av...

Another in the ALM MVP Blog series. This article was written by Mike Douglas one of our most active ALM Rangers contributing to a bunch of the ALM Ranger projects!  Make sure and check out Mikes article: Continuous Feedback using Storyboarding, Code Reviews, and the Feedback Tool in Visual Studio 2012 ALM  (The ALM Ranger projects are projects th...

I have been working with different partners in the testing space for the last couple of months and a frequently asked question is: “Where do we start integrating our test tools with the Microsoft application life cycle platform?” And the answer is relatively straight simple “You need to integrate yourself into the development workflow…we...