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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 ...

Announcing General Availability for Test & Feedback extension (formerly Exploratory Testing extension)

October 8, 2016 Oct 8, 2016 10/8/16
Adity Agarwal
Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Test & Feedback extension (formerly Exploratory Testing extension), and this extension is free for all. With agile practices becoming more prevalent, release cycles have become shorter. It doesn’t leave much time for teams to identify all scenarios, record the steps that ...

Cloud-load testing service is hyper-scale ready: lessons from generating 1M concurrent user load

September 30, 2016 Sep 30, 2016 09/30/16
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
Every now and then we hear of a business-critical app failing during major promotional or seasonal events such as holiday sales. More often than not it turns out that the app is not ready for the massive demand created on such occasions - causing the servers to fail and resulting in dissatisfied customers and lost opportunity. To ensure that ...

Run cloud-based load tests using your own machines (a.k.a. Bring your own subscription)

September 27, 2016 Sep 27, 2016 09/27/16
Prachi Bora (MSFT)
When you run a cloud-based load test, the load testing service automatically provisions the necessary machines (load agents) for generating the load to your application. Once the load test run has completed, these resources are torn down. This works well for the most part for a large set of customers. However, some customers want to be able to...

Testing private/intranet applications using Cloud-based load testing

August 23, 2016 Aug 23, 2016 08/23/16
Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]
Cloud-based Load Testing Service can be used for performance and scale testing of an application by generating load from Azure. This type of load generation can only hit/generate load on an internet/publically accessible application. But we have seen many times customer needs to load test their application which is not publically accessible. ...