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Free Webinar: HP Quality Center Integration Patterns with Team Foundation Server using Tasktop Sync Thurs June 28th

June 12th, 2012
Recently while I was at StarEast in Florida one of the more common questions I heard: “How do we continue using our HP Quality Center investments with Team Foundation Center” So when Wesley at Tasktop mentioned he was doing a free a Webinar on ALM Integration Patterns (Including but not limited to HP Quality Center)with Tasktop ...

DevExpress Releases DXperience 12.1 with Coded UI Support

June 8th, 2012
It is no secret that it is our partners that help make Visual Studio the best development environment on the planet – and DXperience 12.1 from DevExpress ensures that this thought leadership and great experience will continue going forward.   As many developers already know DXperience tools address a wide range of software ...

Ed Blankenship joins the ALM Team (focusing on Lab Management) at Microsoft

June 6th, 2012
While we don’t usually do organization announcements on our blogs I thought I would make an exception in this case as Ed Blankenship has been one of the earliest and most active ALM MVPs-and he just joined the ALM Team focusing on Lab Management scenarios. I started working with Ed back when he visited Microsoft for a week of his vacation ...

Enabling Coded UI Test playback logs in Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate

June 5th, 2012
In Jason Zander’s blog post: Announcing the Release Candidate (RC) of Visual Studio 2012 and .NET Framework 4.5 he showed a new Coded UI feature  -capturing playback logs.   Please note this blog post has been updated.  Please see: Enabling Tracing and HtmlLogger in Coded UI Test          ...

Enabling Feedback Requests, the Backlog and Sprint Planning Features in Team Foundation Server 2012

June 4th, 2012
During the Visual Studio 11 Beta I created the post Enabling Feedback Requests for Team Foundation Server showing you that you needed to enable alerts so “Request Feedback” would show up… (image) In the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate an additional step is required to enable the **Request and Manage Feedback **and the **Backlog ...

Getting Started with Load Testing in Visual Studio 2012

June 4th, 2012
Since the release of the Visual Studio 11 Beta I have had several questions about load testing in Visual Studio.  All of the questions to date have been around getting started… Unlike Visual Studio 2010 that had Test > New Test > Load Test on the menu you have to create a new project of one of the three Test projects.  &...

Testing Mobile devices with Visual Studio using SeeTest plugin

May 9th, 2012
While at StarEast I met some really great partners.  One that caught my eye was Experitest with their SeeTestTM  plugin for Visual Studio.  The reason I found them so interesting is most Mobile Testing solutions force you to make a decision do you put interrupts in at the OS level (potentially masking real problems, compromising...

May 4th QLD Usergroup: Get your Kanban on!

April 30th, 2012
(image) Anthony Borton is so good he can run a user group in Australia while in Redmond. Okay turns out he isn’t that good-but he does have really good people helping him and this month, David Cook, is stepping up to the plate to deliver an updated version of a talk he very successfully delivered at the Agile NZ Conference recently. ...

Anthony Borton and ALM Training releases two new Visual Studio 11 courses

April 27th, 2012
(image) Anthony Borton has been working around the clock and has updated two of the ALM Training courses for our Microsoft Visual Studio “11” Beta release. In addition to updated modules, these courses include brand knew modules focusing on the new features and capabilities in this version. Project Management with Visual Studio 11...

Requirements Collaboration-TFS & inteGREAT Webcast April 25th 1:00PM EDT

April 24th, 2012
Siddharth and Asif will be doing a Webinar on how the inteGREAT RLM software extends the capabilities of Microsoft’s TFS & Office platforms; combined providing a comprehensive, simple to use, highly scalable, requirements solution for all project stakeholders.Session Details: Title: Requirements Collaboration-TFS & ...