Charles Sterling

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Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter

September 26th, 2012
I have recently had a couple of requests on how to run a subset of your tests; indicating that people haven’t see the blog post by Vikram Agrawal [MSFT] titled: Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter *******************************republishing below*********************************     New unit testing ...

TestArchitect by LogiGear offers module-based keyword test authoring for Visual Studio 2012

September 17th, 2012
In collaboration with my team here at Microsoft, LogiGear developed a keyword-driven automation platform exclusively as a Visual Studio extension for efficient large-scale test automation. TestArchitect for Visual Studio uses module-based keyword test authoring to automate coded UI tests in Visual Studio 2012. By eliminating coding, keyword ...

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Power Tools Ships

September 14th, 2012
This release supports Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012.  Included in this release: For a detail description of this release please see: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Power Tools on codeplexhttp://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b1ef7eb2-e084-4cb8-9bc7-...

10+ Free ALM Webcasts on TFS 2012, Load Testing from the Cloud, Managing Labs, Branching, Kanban and MORE!

September 14th, 2012
Imaginet has more ALM MVPs working for them than any single company on the planet…So when they do community activities they do them BIG. Here is their current list of free ALM Webcasts….   (image) Upgrading to TFS 2012: What You Need to Know! Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 brings a number of new features into the integrated ALM ...

How do I get my Visual Studio 2012 feature video links back?

September 14th, 2012
One of the projects I worked on for Visual Studio 2012 was the feature Videos that show up both in the Ultimate and Premium start pages AND and in the features themselves. As you may have noticed the video links in the features give you the option to “Don’t show this again” at which point the the links and text disappear –forever. (...

TeamCompanion 4.7 for Visual Studio 2012 releases and they celebrate their 5th anniversary with a giveaway bonanza

September 12th, 2012
A common concern I hear from customers with every new version of Visual Studio is the availability of their favorite addins and 3rd party tools. With Visual Studio 2012 we made early builds just to all our partners to ensure their availability. TeamCompanion will not only be ready the day of launch they are using it to celebrate their 5th ...

Odin ships Axe 3.4 simultaneously with Visual Studio 2012

September 12th, 2012
One of the frustrating things about Test Automation is that to do it properly you need your testers and developers to work together but the problem arises from the fact developers don’t want to write tests and testers don’t want to code. For this reason most companies find it very difficult to get automation their automation efforts off ...

What is this Lab Management network traffic: QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks, QueryTestMachines, QueryLabEnvironments etc

September 11th, 2012
Just received a question on an internal distribution list: What is Lab Management doing on the Network? I am seeing traffic like: Lab Management            QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks         Date     Machine_name  ...

Gartner starts a study on Testing tools and publishes its findings on Magic Quadrant for Application Life Cycle Management

September 7th, 2012
If you are wondering about different vendors of Application Lifecycle Management Tools it is worth taking a look at their latest research where Gartner positions Microsoft in the ALM Leaders Quadrant: Read the Magic Quadrant for ALM reportTom Murphy is also starting research project on trends in testing organizations. So if you are interested ...

Changing fields on the Visual Studio Extension Gallery page

August 29th, 2012
Had a community member ask: I want to change some fields on my Visual Studio Extension Gallery page. These fields do not appear to be editable:       · “Supported Versions”      · “Supported Visual Studio 2010 Editions”   Luckily one of our old time ALM MVPs, Terje ...