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VSTS New work item form futures (January 2016)

January 11, 2016 Jan 11, 2016 01/11/16
Jose Rady
About two months ago, the new work item form made its debut in Visual Studio Team Services – checkout my blog post with all the details on this release if you haven’t seen it yet. This new work item form brought a redesigned look and feel to work items and set up the foundation for process customization, a new discussion experience, and a ...

Git Experience Futures (January 2016)

January 11, 2016 Jan 11, 2016 01/11/16
Jeremy Epling
Some exciting new features are coming to the Git experience over the next few months. In August, I wrote about upcoming features and most of them are available now, but a few have taken longer than we anticipated. This isn't a comprehensive list of the Git enhancements we're making, but it gives some specifics on the direction we're going. ...

How we plan to enable creating Multiple Collections per Account

January 11, 2016 Jan 11, 2016 01/11/16
Mario Rodriguez (MSFT)
As the use of Visual Studio Team Services continues to grow and larger teams migrate more of their projects to the cloud we have been working to better support their scenarios. Today, I want to share some thoughts about how we see the service evolving during 2016, in order to address one of our most voted UserVoice stories (#4 at the moment)....

SonarQube Integration Update and 2016H1 Plans

January 11, 2016 Jan 11, 2016 01/11/16
Jean-Marc Prieur
[Updated April 5th: In the "Plans for H1" section, added links to blog posts on released features] Back in September Stuart explained our SonarQube Integration plans with Visual Studio, TFS and Visual Studio Team Services. In December he updated the blog post with what we had done. With the Visual Studio Team Services Features Timeline being...

Announcing Reporting Capabilities for Visual Studio Team Services

January 11, 2016 Jan 11, 2016 01/11/16
Karen Ng MSFT
Reporting has always been a cornerstone of TFS.  By bringing together diverse data about your team’s software process, you are able to see relationships and gain insights on your process, and ultimately, take action to improve it.  Since 2010, the on-premises TFS product has enabled different reporting options through Excel reports, SQL ...

Receive an error when resolving a bug created by your build?

January 7, 2016 Jan 7, 2016 01/7/16
Ewald Hofman (MSFT)
When you create a new build definition, you have the option to create a bug when the build failed. (image)   If you activate this option, it is possible that you will receive the following error message when resolving the bug: The field 'Assigned To' contains the value '[DefaultCollection]Project Collection Service Accounts' that is not ...

Using Release Management for Test Automation

January 5, 2016 Jan 5, 2016 01/5/16
Vijay Machiraju
My colleague Abhishek Agarwal wrote a nice article on how the Release Management team dog-foods Release Management service as part of their development process. It is a good use case for how you can use RM for deploying and testing your applications on a daily basis (or for every check-in).http://blogs.msdn.com/b/abhishea/archive/2016/01/04/...

SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild v1.1 released: static analysis now executed during the build

January 4, 2016 Jan 4, 2016 01/4/16
Bogdan Gavril
SonarSource have officially released SonarQube C# Plugin 4.4 and version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. There have been no updates to the scanner documentation in this release, other that updating the version number to make it clear they relate to version 1.1 of the SonarQube Scanner for MSBuild. As usual, we’ve fixed a few bugs...

Become a Scrum.org Professional Scrum Developer Trainer

December 29, 2015 Dec 29, 2015 12/29/15
Charles Sterling
ALM MVP, Richard Hundhausen, is running a Professional Scrum Developer Trainer event in London, England 8-12 February, 2016. This event is the only 2016 Scrum.Org training in the United Kingdom for Scrum professionals interested in becoming a trainer for the Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program. (image) About the course: As a ...