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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, as well as two ...

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 Visual...

As announced at Visual Studio 2013 launch, today we are launching the Commercial Preview for cloud-based load testing using Visual Studio Online (previously called Team Foundation Service). To get started, download Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 RTM. If you already have load tests that you run locally, you can run the same tests now using th...

    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 issu...

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 easy worka...

The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator v1. Looking for unit test code generation? The Visual Studio Unit Test Generator helps to increase developer productivity by decreasing the setup work involved in creating new unit tests. It takes away the routine test creation tasks allowing a developer ...

As part of Coded UI Test’s support for windows store apps introduced in Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 as detailed in this blog , there is now playback support for touch gestures on Windows Store Apps. These gestures are only a simulation and hence one would not need to have a touch monitor to use these API’s. Currently these API’s ...

The ALM Rangers are pleased to announce the landing of the Release Candidate for the Visual Studio Unit Test Generator. Overview Once you’ve moved to Visual Studio 2012, what’s a developer to do without the Create Unit Tests feature? Based on the high demand on User Voice for this feature to be restored, the Visual Studio ALM Rangers hav...

One of our premier test partners  Testhouse (Shivaram Patil and Roshin Jacob) has been working with Hosam Kamel(Microsoft regional technology solution professional and ALM Ranger) for performance testing one of our mutual enterprise customers.  The project was focused on using Visual Studio to do a performance and load testing for Seibel applicatio...

(Posting for a team mate and friend Pratap Lakshman)   From the perspective of interaction-performance applications need to be “fast” and “fluid” - fast to launch, to navigate between pages, to react to changes in orientation, and fluid in scrolling, in panning and in animations. This post introduces the XAML UI Responsiveness tool, a new tool in...