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How to perform Lab management operations in Build and Release.

Ashok KirlaSeptember 4, 2017Sep 4, 201709/4/17

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 ...

Upgrade to MSTest V2!

Pratap LakshmanSeptember 1, 2017Sep 1, 201709/1/17

MSTest V2 has crossed 1 Million downloads. Congratulations! Hats off to the community! MSTest V2 is seeing robust usage. We ourselves use it heavily. If you are still using an earlier version of the MSTest framework, we encourage you to upgrade. We have looked at the uptake of MSTest V2 from the perspective of two constituencies, and our ...

Visual Studio Test Platform – upcoming changes to data collectors

Pratap LakshmanAugust 24, 2017Aug 24, 201708/24/17

Having executed a test - at a minimum - we want to know the outcome. But beyond that, we may want to know more. Data collectors and loggers are the key extension mechanisms intended to provide this and other such details for rich reporting. Data collectors and loggers generate information based on listening to events raised during test ...

The TestContainer Capability

Pratap LakshmanAugust 18, 2017Aug 18, 201708/18/17

Updating off pre-RTM bits once RTM ships ought to be routine. But if you have not already done so in the case of the .NET Core based Test projects, let me give you a reason to do so. vstest delegates discovery and execution of tests to test-framework-specific adapters. Adapters indicate the kind of test containers that they can process – ...

Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 4

Pratap LakshmanAugust 4, 2017Aug 4, 201708/4/17

Essential to TIA’s test selection is the map of dynamic dependencies between test methods and source files of code exercised during their execution. TIA needs dependencies mapped in this form: TIA can generate such a dependencies-map for managed code execution. Where such dependencies reside in .cs and .vb files, TIA can automatically ...

Extending MSTest V2

Pratap LakshmanJuly 18, 2017Jul 18, 201707/18/17

APIs are assets. As developers we learn them, write to them, and – if the API are extensible – we grow them. An extensible API removes barriers to introducing new abstractions closer to our own domains. Once such abstractions are in place, they in turn allow us to work with the underlying framework in a more fluent manner. Extensibility ...

Deploy Visual Studio Test Agent Task – Test Machine Rebooting Scenarios

Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]July 3, 2017Jul 3, 201707/3/17

Deploy Visual Studio Test Agent (DTA) task in TFS/VSTS, is used for setting up Test Agent (TA) on multiple machines to run functional tests. Image below describes the functionality of the task and present reboot cases: DTA Task & need of Auto-logon To run UI tests that interact with desktop, test machine must have a valid user...

Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 3

Pratap LakshmanJune 13, 2017Jun 13, 201706/13/17

At its core, TIA collects, and subsequently consults, a map of the dynamic dependencies of each test method as it is executing. As the test method is executing it will cover various methods - the source file in which those methods reside are the dynamic dependencies that get tracked. So, the mapping ends up like the following: and so on...

Visual Studio Team Services demonstrates how Microsoft Loves Java

Paul T. BarhamMay 22, 2017May 22, 201705/22/17

To demonstrate our continued commitment to support Java developers and their full lifecycle DevOps needs with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS), I want to share some of our recent and exciting Java-related feature announcements. Our teams are working with large and small Java teams every day to better ...

Accelerated Continuous Testing with Test Impact Analysis – Part 2

Pratap LakshmanMay 16, 2017May 16, 201705/16/17

The previous post introduced how - for a given code commit - TIA will select and run only the relevant tests required to validate that commit. Thus, without sacrificing quality, both the testrun and its enclosing CI definition will complete faster. Here is how that translated to reality for one of our teams: The top graph plots the time-to-...

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