Charles Sterling

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Visual Studio Update 2 Team Foundation Server feature -Work Item Tagging

February 3rd, 2013
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 ...

Improvements in Windows Store Unit Tests: Test Exceptions in Async Lambda Expressions, Run Tests on the UI Thread

February 2nd, 2013
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...

CTP for Visual Studio Update 2 now available

January 30th, 2013

Exploratory Tests Auto Created from Product Backlog Item Acceptance Criteria

January 29th, 2013
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...

Meet the cloud diagnostics and analytics team while at the ALM Summit Jan 29-31

January 22nd, 2013
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...

Visual Studio 2012 C++ CppUnitTestFramework targeting the Visual Studio C++ 2010 compiler

December 19th, 2012
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++ ...

ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012 RC, TFS 2012 Monitoring Management Pack AND SQL Server Data Tools December 2012 release now available

December 13th, 2012
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 ...

Visual Studio 2012 ALM Virtual Machine with Update 1 and hands-on-labs / demo scripts now available

December 6th, 2012
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...

Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio Update 1

November 28th, 2012
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 ...

Integrating existing testing systems with Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio

November 27th, 2012
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 ...