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ALM Quick Reference Guide BETA has shipped!

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12
Willy-P. Schaub
We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, which delivers quick references which started in 2009 with a request from Steven van Niekerk (Technical Lead / Architect, South-Africa) initiated this project with his question “Can you tell me about TFS and VSTS in ...

Welcome to Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta “Wave”

February 29, 2012 Feb 29, 2012 02/29/12
Importer
JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 11 Beta, which triggered a SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. Updated: 2012-04-13. Changes marked with //date – change token. (image) (image) I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta “Gig” solutions are now available for download from ...

New MSDN topic: Coded UI Extension for custom controls

February 1, 2012 Feb 1, 2012 02/1/12
Shubhra Maji MSFT
The Visual Studio team has released MSDN documentation on Enable Coded UI Testing of Your Custom Controls. Please go through the step-by-step implementation of Coded UI extension points to achieve various levels of support. The document describes how to make a custom ChartControl with CurveLegend child object work with ...

How To: Bulk edit action recording?

December 29, 2011 Dec 29, 2011 12/29/11
Gautam Goenka [MSFT]
Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) has test runner using which one can do manual testing. One of the features that many folks use while doing manual testing using test runner is the Fast Forward feature. With this feature, a tester can do an action recording and later use that to fast forward the test with playback of the recording. A while back, ...

Sample XPath utility for Coded UI Test

December 28, 2011 Dec 28, 2011 12/28/11
Gautam Goenka [MSFT]
Some important notes before I talk about the utility - The attached sample utility adds support for XPath query to Coded UI Test for searching controls.  The utility uses built-in XPath parser and other classes of .NET and as such is conformant to .NET’s XPath Syntax.  The new utility assembly adds two extension ...

Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party controls – the basics explained

October 28, 2011 Oct 28, 2011 10/28/11
Shubhra Maji MSFT
Having developed a 3rd party control, wonder what it takes to go from NO support to FULL support for Coded UI Test? How to make the UI elements testable by Coded UI Test – to be able to create automated tests from manual recording, record user actions, generate code from user actions, add custom code to UI Tests and finally run those coded ...