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DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps

New CodedUI course from Pluralsight

  One of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, has been spending a ton of time writing CodeUI Tests.  Thankfully Marcel decided to take this hard earned knowledge and convert it into a class on best practices for Implementing Coded UI testing. (image) Session information below: This course is targeted at Testers and Developers that ...

Announcing new Application Lifecycle readiness content by the ALM Rangers

The ALM Rangers have been involved with a bunch of recent Visual Studio 2013 readiness content to help people get up to speed. 1. The Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 .  Big thanks to Michael Fourie, we have been able to action the backlog of community feedback for recent versions and package as part of the...

A handful of ALM Ranger solutions landed to close off another exciting VS ALM year

(image) The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are pleased to highlight a number of new and updated practical guidance, practical experience and out-of-band solutions that have landed in recently. latest (new or upgraded) solutions what’s next? The Lab Management v3, TFS on Azure IAAS v1 and Version Control v3 guidance projects are in-flight, ...

Case Study: Using froglogic for test UI automation with Java based applications and Microsoft Test Manager

In just the last month i have been asked three times for a case study or examples of how to test Java based systems using Microsoft Test Manager. Knowing one of the ALM MVPs, Marcel de Vries, is finishing up a very large Java project i reached out to him to find out how he just accomplished this. Despite the fact he was super busy with the ...

Coded UI MTM Issues on Internet Explorer with KB2870699

    Update: Fix for VS 2012 is now available hereFix for VS 2010 SP1 is now available here    There was a recent security update (KB2870699) rolled out on Internet Explorer which has made some changes on IE11IE10IE9, affecting Coded UI Tests, MTM Record and Playback and MTM Exploratory Testing on IE. The...

Using Internet Explorer 11 and not able to record a web performance test successfully?

Are you trying to add a recording to your Visual Studio Web Performance test with Internet Explorer 11 or Windows 8.1 (which uses IE 11) and are not successful in doing so?  The cause is IE 11 enables - Enhanced Protection Mode setting by default, which doesn’t allows Microsoft Web Test Recorder add-on to be enabled. Luckily, there is an ...