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ALM Rangers ship guidance for Microsoft Fakes, TFS Disaster Avoidance and updates to two other guides

March 1, 2013 Mar 1, 2013 03/1/13
Willy-P. Schaub
We are pleased to announce that we have shipped two new exciting projects introducing practical guidance on the use of Microsoft Fakes and for Team Foundation Server (TFS) disaster recovery avoidance, planning and step-step recovery walkthroughs for the worst case scenarios. New(image)   Updates In addition we have released ...

Testing devices made easier with Perfecto Mobile’s MobileCloud™ platform and Team Foundation Server

February 21, 2013 Feb 21, 2013 02/21/13
Importer
A common pain point for today’s development teams is procuring and testing the plethora of devices modern applications are now running on. To ensure the highest quality for their business-critical mobile apps, development teams require robust mobile testing solutions that address the complexities of multi-platform development in a highly ...

Managing Browser Profiles when using Cross Browser testing in Coded UI Test

February 21, 2013 Feb 21, 2013 02/21/13
Saima_MSFT
We introduced extended support in Coded UI Test for Cross Browser Testing with VS 2012 Update 2 February CTP (see this, this and this post for details). This post addresses details specific to managing browser profiles when using cross-browser testing feature.Browser launches are often customized and you might want to test with specific user ...

Introducing JavaScript Execution on InternetExplorer and CrossBrowser in Coded UI Test

January 18, 2013 Jan 18, 2013 01/18/13
Sai Krishna Vajjala [MSFT]
This blog assumes that you have a prior understanding of Coded UI Test and some experience with Recording and Playback on either Internet Explorer or Cross Browser.  A good starting point for Cross Browser testing would be here. This blog explains the new “JavaScript Execution" capability of the Coded UI test on Internet Explorer as...

Troubleshooting tips for cross browser testing in Coded UI Test

December 11, 2012 Dec 11, 2012 12/11/12
Saima_MSFT
I assume in this blog that you have basic knowledge of cross browser testing with Coded UI Test. You can visit this link which introduces cross browser testing with Coded UI Test , and also calls out the known limitations with this release. I also assume you are familiar with Coded UI Test Html logs used for troubleshooting.  This link is...

Introducing SharePoint Emulators

November 26, 2012 Nov 26, 2012 11/26/12
Joshua Weber-MSFT
The Visual Studio team is pleased to announce availability of Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint Emulators. Unit testing for SharePoint code is difficult. Ideally you would like to isolate code under test from the surrounding SharePoint framework. Isolation frameworks, such as Microsoft Fakes, can enable this code isolation. Unfortunately, as ...

Retrying failed playback actions with Coded UI

November 20, 2012 Nov 20, 2012 11/20/12
Srishti [MSFT]
This blog assumes that you have basic understanding of Coded UI and are familiar with the code generated from a recording on Winforms, WPF or Web applications. A lot of times, while running a UI test, our test runs into an unexpected pagestate, say an unexpected error dialog, dismissing which would make our test work, or maybe the server ...

Migrating Coded UI Test Projects on VS 2012

November 8, 2012 Nov 8, 2012 11/8/12
Aditya_msft
In Visual Studio 2012, Coded UI Test projects provide silent upgrade features where if you open a Coded UI Test project which was created in Visual Studio 2010 SP1, it will get repaired automatically to support both Visual Studio 2012 & Visual Studio 2010 SP1. Similarly if you create any new Coded UI Test project in Visual Studio 2012, you...