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Unit Test Generators Extensibility – hats off to our community

July 25, 2015 Jul 25, 2015 07/25/15

Pratap Lakshman

It was the early feedback and support from the community that encouraged us to ship IntelliTest and the Create Unit Test method stubs features. That feedback continued as we got clear asks to support (1) the xUnit.net and NUnit test frameworks, and (2) emit tests into existing test projects. Our intent was to make these features ...

Test Planning and Management Guide – Updated

July 22, 2015 Jul 22, 2015 07/22/15

Manoj Bableshwar

The ‘Test Release Management Guidance’, since its first release in early 2012, has been a great resource that lays down guidance about important questions pertinent to Manual Test Planning, such as: Today, I’m excited to announce a new version of this guide, that, in addition to focusing on the core aspects of test planning, ...

Video: Configuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing with Visual Studio 2015

July 17, 2015 Jul 17, 2015 07/17/15

Charles Sterling

One of the ALM MVPs, Anthony Borton, did a great video on how to setup Continuous Integration Build and Continuous Testing with Visual Studio 2015. If you are considering configuring and playing with Continuous Testing this video is a must watch! Thanks Anthony! ******************************************* This presentation focuses ...

IntelliTest – One Test to rule them all

July 5, 2015 Jul 5, 2015 07/5/15

Pratap Lakshman

In traditional unit test suites, each test case represents an exemplary usage scenario, and the assertions embody the relationship between the input and output. Verifying a few such scenarios might well be enough, but experienced developers know that bugs lurk even in well-tested code, when correct but untested inputs provoke wrong responses...

Testing in Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment Workflows

May 29, 2015 May 29, 2015 05/29/15

Gopinath C H[MSFT]

When Brian announced the release of Visual Studio 2015 RC and Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, he blogged about lots of features in these releases including Build.Preview and Release Management which are key for DevOps. At a high level DevOps is to focus on increasing customer value by reducing cycle times in the development process. There ...

Introduction and enhancements to Visual Studio Online Cloud Load Testing at Ottawa Dev Day May 30

May 11, 2015 May 11, 2015 05/11/15

Charles Sterling

If you missed Ignite or Build and live in Ottawa then you are in luck! A lot of that great content can be found at the Ottawa Dev Day May 30th. …While i have included their entire session list below i have to call out my favorite topic Cloud Load Testing will be there! Introduction to Cloud Load Testing Since November of 2012 when Cloud ...

Load Test Enhancements in Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15

Charles Sterling

What an amazing day. Today we announced the release candidate to Visual Studio 2015..and it has a ton of new features. If you haven’t already seen the news make sure and check out the following resources: In addition to downloading Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC), .NET Framework 4.6, Team Foundation Server 2015 RC, and...

Smart Unit Tests – Test to Code Binding, Test Case Management

April 18, 2015 Apr 18, 2015 04/18/15

Pratap Lakshman

[Editor’s note: "Smart Unit Tests" has been renamed to “IntelliTest” with effect from Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate (RC).] In an earlier post we had mentioned how Smart Unit Tests can emit a suite of tests for a given code-under-test, and how it can manage this test suite as the code-under-test itself evolves. For any given ...

Generating excel reports for load test runs done in between 03/19-03/31

March 31, 2015 Mar 31, 2015 03/31/15

Deepak.Singhal [MSFT]

Recently there was a bug caused in our system due to which customers will not be able to see the relevant data in the Excel reports for their runs done during the following period. This will affect only the excel report generation of the run. Incident start time – 03-19-2015 11:00:00 Incident end time – 04-01-...

Announcing 100 core support for VSO Cloud-based Load testing and more!

March 23, 2015 Mar 23, 2015 03/23/15

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]

Cloud-based Load Testing with Visual Studio Online now supports up to 100 cores for a single load test run. Until now in Cloud-based Load Testing, you could use up to 20 cores (10 agents) in a single load test run. With the support for 100 cores, you should be able to generate 5 times the concurrent users than before. For example, , in a ...

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