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 developm...

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 when he ...

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             ...

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… In the Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate an additional step is required to enable the **Request and Manage Feedback **and the **Backlog and Sprint Planning ...

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.    ...

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 your...

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. David's talk was ra...

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 Testing a...

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 & inteGREATSiddharth ...

April 18th LogiGear gave the first look at their eagerly sought product, TestArchitect™ for Visual Studio®.  Tightly integrated with Visual Studio 11, LogiGear’s flagship product TestArchitect empowers users to quickly and effortlessly create as well as maintain very large volume of test cases within Microsoft Visual Studio by combining Action...