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

October 30, 2020 Oct 30, 2020 10/30/20

Jessica Deen

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)

October 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020 10/22/20

Jessica Deen

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

August 1, 2019 Aug 1, 2019 08/1/19

Divya Vaishnavi

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

April 12, 2019 Apr 12, 2019 04/12/19

Prachi Bora (MSFT)

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

February 22, 2019 Feb 22, 2019 02/22/19

Jamie Cool

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

October 25, 2018 Oct 25, 2018 10/25/18

Divya Vaishnavi

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

June 19, 2018 Jun 19, 2018 06/19/18

Jeremy Epling

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

March 7, 2018 Mar 7, 2018 03/7/18

Pratap Lakshman

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

January 30, 2018 Jan 30, 2018 01/30/18

Pratap Lakshman

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 ...

How to perform Lab management operations in Build and Release.

September 4, 2017 Sep 4, 2017 09/4/17

Ashok Kirla

As you are already aware, we announced the plan for deprecating XAML builds sometime back. TFS 2018 RC1 is now available and with that XAML builds are no longer supported. Consequently, Lab Management and automated testing capabilities in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) are no longer supported starting from TFS 2018 RC1. In TFS 2015, we ...

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