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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 ...

Upgrade to MSTest V2!

September 1, 2017 Sep 1, 2017 09/1/17
Pratap Lakshman
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

August 24, 2017 Aug 24, 2017 08/24/17
Pratap Lakshman
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

August 18, 2017 Aug 18, 2017 08/18/17
Pratap Lakshman
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 – ...