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Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Container Pipeline Edition (Part 3)

Jessica DeenNovember 13, 2020Nov 13, 202011/13/20

What is a container based pipeline? In short, it's a pipeline where *each* task runs in a container. The benefit of this is I don't need to spend time configuring my build server or build environment with *all* the necessary dependencies and binaries needed for my pipeline.

Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Azure Devops & GitHub Actions (Part 2)

Jessica DeenOctober 30, 2020Oct 30, 202010/30/20

Join us for the second post in this blog series, "Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines", where we focus on the pipeline based CI/CD method!

Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Getting Started (Part 1)

Jessica DeenOctober 22, 2020Oct 22, 202010/22/20

Testing - it's an important part of a developer's day-to-day, but it's also crucial to the operations engineer. In a world where DevOps is more than just a buzzword, where it's become accepted as a mindset shift and culture change, we *all* need to consider running quality tests.

Support for large test attachments now available in Azure Pipelines

Divya VaishnaviAugust 1, 2019Aug 1, 201908/1/19

With this update, Azure Pipelines supports test attachments bigger than 100MB in size, which means you can now upload big files like crash dumps or videos with failed tests, aiding your troubleshooting experience.

Changes to Coded UI Test in Visual Studio 2019

Prachi Bora (MSFT)April 12, 2019Apr 12, 201904/12/19

We've been recommending for a while that customers use the open source tools Selenium and Appium tools, therefore the Visual Studio 2019 release marks their final deprecation.

We recommend using Selenium for testing web-applications and Appium with WinAppDriver for testing desktop (WPF, WinForms, Win32) and UWP apps.

Cloud-based load testing service end of life

Jamie CoolFebruary 22, 2019Feb 22, 201902/22/19

We plan on closing down the corresponding Azure DevOps cloud-based load testing service on March 31st, 2020.

Test Analytics in Azure Pipelines is now at your fingertips

Divya VaishnaviOctober 25, 2018Oct 25, 201810/25/18

Keeping the pipeline healthy and making it effective is KEY to your DevOps ongoing journey. Some time back we introduced Analytics in Azure Pipeline with Top failing tests report to help you do just that.

New Navigation for Visual Studio Team Services

Jeremy EplingJune 19, 2018Jun 19, 201806/19/18

I’m excited to share the new navigation we’re working on for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to modernize the user experience and give you more flexibility. As Lori mentioned in her blog post, our goal to create an integrated suite that also gives the flexibly to pick and choose the services that work best for you. That goal is...

DevOps for IoT with Win10 IoT Core, UWP, and VSTS

Pratap LakshmanMarch 7, 2018Mar 7, 201803/7/18

We often get asked how to do CI/CD for IoT apps using Win10 IoT Core. If you’ve been considering or using Win10 IoT Core, then read on. The Visual Studio Test Platform that ships with Visual Studio 15.6 RTW now supports Testing on Win10 IoT Core. Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) are key practices in DevOps. ...

MSTest V2: in-assembly parallel test execution

Pratap LakshmanJanuary 30, 2018Jan 30, 201801/30/18

Introduction MSTest V2 v1.3.0 Beta2 now supports in-assembly parallel execution of tests - the top most requested/commented issue on the testfx repo. The feature can dramatically reduce the total time taken to execute a suite of tests. To get started, install the framework and adapter from NuGet. If you are already using MSTest V2, then ...

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