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Announcing Continuous Delivery Tools for Visual Studio 2017

February 7, 2017 Feb 7, 2017 02/7/17
AMETWALLY
With the right DevOps tools, developers can run continuous integration builds that automate testing, analysis and verification of their projects, and streamline continuous deployment to get innovative applications into user’s hands quickly. Along with the release of Visual Studio 2017 RC.3 update, we released a DevLabs extension, Continuous ...

Announcing GVFS (Git Virtual File System)

February 3, 2017 Feb 3, 2017 02/3/17
Saeed Noursalehi
Here at Microsoft we have teams of all shapes and sizes, and many of them are already using Git or are moving that way. For the most part, the Git client and Team Services Git repos work great for them. However, we also have a handful of teams with repos of unusual size! For example, the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over ...

New Feature: Delivery Plans for Visual Studio Team Services

January 23, 2017 Jan 23, 2017 01/23/17
Derrick Fu
Today, we're announcing a brand new Visual Studio Team Services feature… Delivery Plans. What are Delivery Plans? When you’re planning and tracking work, it’s often necessary to see that work across Teams and Projects.  Visual Studio Team Services already provides customizable Kanban boards and Backlogs to help teams get their work ...

Announcing Public Preview for Work Item Search

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Shruti Poddar [MSFT]
Today, we are excited to announce the public preview of Work Item Search in Visual Studio Team Services. Work Item Search provides fast and flexible search across all your work items. With Work Item Search you can quickly and easily find relevant work items by searching across all work item fields over all projects in an account. You can ...

Announcing Code Search on Team Foundation Server 2017

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]
Code Search is the most downloaded Team Services extension in the Marketplace! And it is now available on Team Foundation Server 2017! Code Search provides fast, flexible, and accurate search across your code in TFS. As your code base expands and is divided across multiple projects and repositories, finding what you need becomes increasingly ...

How to use Test Step using REST Client Helper?

November 2, 2016 Nov 2, 2016 11/2/16
Pankaj Khanzode
Test Case is the backbone for all manual testing scenarios. You can create test case using the web client from Test or Work hubs OR from Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), which then are stored in Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services. Using these clients you can create test artifacts such as test cases with test steps, test step ...

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. Earlier today, Microsoft Teams was announced. Microsoft Teams is a new chat-based workspace in Office365 that makes collaborating on software ...

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 ...

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