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Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 4: Together, in the Open

February 12, 2017 Feb 12, 2017 02/12/17

Pratap Lakshman

[This is the 4th post in a 4-part series on evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform. You can read the earlier parts here: Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 3, Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 2, Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 1] The Test Platform is where it is at thanks to its community...

Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 3: .NET Core, convergence, and cross-plat

November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16

Pratap Lakshman

[This is the 3rd post in the series on evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform. You can read the earlier posts here: Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 2, Evolving the Visual Studio Test Platform – Part 1] As .NET Core draws an ever-growing community of developers with existing assets and experiences, it is essential to ...

Test Controller, Test Agent versions and their usage in different scenarios

November 23, 2016 Nov 23, 2016 11/23/16

Prachi Bora (MSFT)

There have been several questions on the different scenarios related to running automated tests in various workflows and which versions can / cannot be used. Let's use the following 2 names for categorizing how agents get used: Agents for Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 Agents for Visual Studio 2015 and Agents ...

Issue with using Application Insights with load tests

November 7, 2016 Nov 7, 2016 11/7/16

Prachi Bora (MSFT)

Update - As of Feb 24th 2017, this issue has been addressed and the content below is no longer applicable. If you use Application Insights to collect app side metrics during load tests, you will find that it currently doesn't work as expected. This is due to an infrastructure issue. We have worked with the Application ...

How to use Test Step using REST Client Helper?

November 2, 2016 Nov 2, 2016 11/2/16

Pankaj Khanzode

Test Case is the backbone for all manual testing scenarios. You can create test case using the web client from Test or Work hubs OR from Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), which then are stored in Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services. Using these clients you can create test artifacts such as test cases with test steps, test step ...

Test & Feedback – Collaborate with your team

October 19, 2016 Oct 19, 2016 10/19/16

Aaron Hallberg

In the previous blogs, we have gone through the first two steps – Capture your findings and Create artifacts. In this blog, we will take you through the third step i.e. Collaborate. Test & Feedback extension provides many ways in which teams can collaborate with one another to drive the quality. You can use the extension to share your ...

Test & Feedback extension – Create artifacts

October 12, 2016 Oct 12, 2016 10/12/16

Pankaj Khanzode

In the previous blog "Test & Feedback - Capture your findings", we discussed the full “Capture” capability of the Test & Feedback extension. Once all the findings have been captured, the next step is to create rich actionable work items that can be consumed by the team. In this blog we will focus on the “Create” step and the ...

Test & Feedback – Capture your findings

October 11, 2016 Oct 11, 2016 10/11/16

Pankaj Khanzode

Test & Feedback extension allows everyone in team, be it developers, testers, product owners, user experience, leads/managers etc. to contribute to quality of the application, thus making it a “team sport”. It enables you to perform exploratory tests or drive your bug bashes, without requiring predefined test cases or test steps. This ...

Parallel Test Execution

October 10, 2016 Oct 10, 2016 10/10/16

Pratap Lakshman

An early post on Parallel Test Execution drew attention to its subtle semantics. Three considerations directly contributed to that (1) Reach (2) Composability (3) Non-disruptive roll out. The Visual Studio Test Platform is open and extensible, with tests written using various test frameworks and run using a variety of adapters. To reduce on-...

Tracking branch health and identifying flaky tests in RM driven test automation

October 10, 2016 Oct 10, 2016 10/10/16

Abhishek Agrawai

In my previous blog post, I had written about how we have a single Release Definition for our team which runs all the test environments in parallel. Now that Release Management supports branch based filters while listing releases, it is very easy to track the health of a particular branch. Further, with the work the test team has ...