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Microsoft Teams integration with Visual Studio Team Services

November 2, 2016 Nov 2, 2016 11/2/16
Derrick Fu
Update 11/9: The Kanban board tab integration has begun rolling out to Teams clients. Some users will see it today and all users will be able to configure the tab integration by tomorrow 11/10. (image) Earlier today, Microsoft Teams was announced. Microsoft Teams is a new chat-based workspace in Office365 that makes collaborating on ...

Test & Feedback – Collaborate with your team

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16
Aaron Hallberg
In the previous blogs, we have gone through the first two steps – Capture your findings and Create artifacts. In this blog, we will take you through the third step i.e. Collaborate. Test & Feedback extension provides many ways in which teams can collaborate with one another to drive the quality. You can use the extension to share your ...

Test & Feedback extension – Create artifacts

October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16
Pankaj Khanzode
In the previous blog "Test & Feedback - Capture your findings", we discussed the full “Capture” capability of the Test & Feedback extension. Once all the findings have been captured, the next step is to create rich actionable work items that can be consumed by the team. In this blog we will focus on the “Create” step and the ...

Test & Feedback – Capture your findings

October 11, 2016 Oct 11, 2016 10/11/16
Pankaj Khanzode
Test & Feedback extension allows everyone in team, be it developers, testers, product owners, user experience, leads/managers etc. to contribute to quality of the application, thus making it a “team sport”. It enables you to perform exploratory tests or drive your bug bashes, without requiring predefined test cases or test steps. This ...

Announcing General Availability for Test & Feedback extension (formerly Exploratory Testing extension)

October 8, 2016 Oct 8, 2016 10/8/16
Adity Agarwal
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Test & Feedback extension (formerly Exploratory Testing extension), and this extension is free for all. With agile practices becoming more prevalent, release cycles have become shorter. It doesn’t leave much time for teams to identify all scenarios, record the steps that ...

Cloud-load testing service is hyper-scale ready: lessons from generating 1M concurrent user load

September 30, 2016 Sep 30, 2016 09/30/16
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
Every now and then we hear of a business-critical app failing during major promotional or seasonal events such as holiday sales. More often than not it turns out that the app is not ready for the massive demand created on such occasions - causing the servers to fail and resulting in dissatisfied customers and lost opportunity. To ensure that ...

Using physical boards alongside your Team Services/TFS Kanban and Taskboards – Agile Cards by Spartez

September 21, 2016 Sep 21, 2016 09/21/16
Ayushman Jain
Agile transformation and ongoing process maintenance are often not as easy as they would seem. Despite the very open nature of Agile Manifesto it is important to maintain consistency between selected methods and the tools. This may become increasingly difficult with the growth of organisations, complexity of projects and internal team ...

Microsoft discontinuing Project Server/TFS Integration. Partner to provide solution

September 16, 2016 Sep 16, 2016 09/16/16
Gregg Boer
As Agile practices continue to evolve and become our customer’s primary choice for work management, we are changing how TFS and Project Server integrate. With the next major version of TFS, TFS '15', we will no longer provide an out-of-box integration experience between Project Server and Team Foundation Server. Nor will we be providing an ...

Custom work item types on Team Services

September 2, 2016 Sep 2, 2016 09/2/16
Derrick Fu
NOTE 9/13: The custom work item type feature should now be rolled out to all accounts. If you are not seeing it, please reach out to me directly.  NOTE 9/12: As evidenced by the comments, this feature is still rolling out across Team Services so not all accounts will see the custom work item type feature just yet. I apologize for the delay ...