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I just finished a Microsoft Virtual Academy on DevOps covering new features in Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server Update 4 with Jeff Levinson and we had a couple of the attendees ask for the Excel File that we used to create the Test Cases and the shared parameters.  I decided to do one better…publish all the steps we went through incl...

Steve Borg and Northwest Cadence has been doing a bunch of cutting work DevOps content and would love to share it w/ the world! Their new series kicks off tomorrow (Sept 18th) with:   Performance and Load Testing Performance and load testing are critical components of building high quality and scalable software. Visual Studio Ultimate pro...

You may be aware Application Insights in Visual Studio Online provides you with the capability of monitoring the availability of your web applications through the use of Visual Studio Web Tests. If not, you may want to take a peek at this post before continuing. Now, let’s assume your application is a financial tool which provides real-time stock ...

If you don’t have a free subscription to Testing Experience  yet now is definitely a great time to sign up as they have a new article on Intellitrace!   Always Know What’s Going On Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace Software development can be nerve-wracking. As a developer, you often think that ...

Editors Note: While working in Australia I was blessed to work with some truly gifted technologists.  In the SQL space David Lean was the local legend with the (deserved) reputation of being THE SQL Performance Guru. David has since left Microsoft but continue his cutting edge work with SQL Server and Application Tuning.  Thanks for the great po...

  ** Visual Studio Load Testing has always made it easy to create Load Tests. Now with Visual Studio Online it is also easy to verify the performance capacity of your software of 1,000s of users external to your data centers using the Cloud and Microsoft Azure. It has been noted that Visual Studio Load Testing is widely used inside of Microsoft f...

Check for performance issues on your web site before they impact your customers. Perhaps you expect an increased user load from a marketing campaign. Use cloud-based load testing with Visual Studio Online to test if your application can handle all the new users. With cloud-based load testing it’s easy: Watch a short video about load te...

Goal of a load testing activity is to identify and fix performance bottlenecks. Visual Studio Online integrates Cloud Load Testing with Application Insights to give deep insights into performance and diagnostics data of your application which dramatically decreases the discovery and resolution of any issues discovered later. This article will walk ...

This summer is destined to be EPIC!  National Marine Fisheries have predicted this is going to be the best Salmon fishing in 38 years AND Steve Borg and Rennie Araucto have put an entire series of web casts together to guarantee your summer sizzles…Without breaking the bank!   About the presenters: Steven Borg Co-Founder and Strate...