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Reporting on Work Items with Power BI
Ever since the initial release of reporting with Power BI against Git and Team Foundation Version Control, the single consistent question was “When will I get the ability to report on work items?” The answer is “Today”. Shown below is a partial view of the new updated dashboard. The first question that I’ve been asked is “What’s included?” So let me share some of our plans around what we’ve delivered and what we’re hard at work on. In this release, we support the current state of work items only. That means you can’t do a burndown yet and you can’t do rollup yet. What can you do with this first release of w...
Test Planning and Management Guide – Updated
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, also touches upon new product improvements to Manual Testing with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. You can download the guide by clicking here (or visit the Test Planning and Management Guide page). Notable additions to the guide include: If you are new to this guide...
Using the Visual Studio Emulator for Android from Android Studio or Eclipse with ADT
Since announcing our fast, free, Hyper-V compatible Android emulator, we’ve heard that some of you are using Android Studio or Eclipse as your primary Android development environment and still want to acquire the best emulator on the planet without necessarily having to also install Visual Studio. That’s why we’re excited to announce that we’ve made the Visual Studio Emulator for Android available without needing to also download Visual Studio. Regardless of how you get our emulator, let’s talk about how you can use it with any Android developer tools of your choice. Getting started You can download the emulat...
Visual Studio Emulator for Android in VS2015 RTM
Back in November we first told you about our fast, free, Hyper-V compatible Android emulator. Then, we used your feedback to add features including OpenGL, Lollipop, multi-touch, camera simulation, device profiles and WiFi simulation. Today, we’re excited to announce a whole host of new features for the emulator: You can acquire the Emulator for Android when you install any of the Cross-Platform Mobile Development project types in Visual Studio 2015, but we knew that this emulator was just too good to limit to use with Visual Studio 2015, so today we’re also making the emulator available independent of V...
Code Maps improvements in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM: Code maps now have simpler menus, more intuitive icons, and independent group layout
Amongst the improvements we’ve made to Code Maps in Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM are: The icons are now consistent with Solution Explorer and other tools The following screenshot shows a code map in Visual Studio 2015 RC. You can see that, although the nodes are decorated with icons, these are of varying sizes and some are not even similar to the commonly accepted icon for projects and files as used in Solution Explorer and elsewhere. Visual Studio 2015 Release Candidate node icons In particular, the icon for a Web Project item, whilst easily recognizable, is larger than and different from that u...
Performance and Diagnostic Tools in Visual Studio 2015
This blog post summarizes the investments we made to our performance profiling and diagnostic tools in Visual Studio 2015. What’s new in Visual Studio 2015 In Visual Studio 2013 we introduced the Performance and Diagnostics hub. In Visual Studio 2015, we have made the following improvements: In the remainder of this post we’ll go into the details of these new and exciting features. Catch performance issues early using the debugger Our goal with Visual Studio 2015 was to lower the bar for collecting performance data, so that everyone can measure performance with minimal effort, and without having to l...
Finding swallowed and async exceptions using IntelliTrace in VS2015
In this blog post I am going to walk you through using IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 to deal with two exception-related scenarios: If you haven’t done so already, check out the announcement of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 which gives you an overview of IntelliTrace and its improved UI. You can see this walkthrough as a video here (demo start at 43m55s). The application I am going to be working with is a contact manger written in ASP.NET (I have included the source code in case you want to follow along): Finding swallowed exceptions Users report that occasionally clicking on the “Edit” button...
Video: Configuring Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing with Visual Studio 2015
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 on the new build system introduced in Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server 2015. The walkthrough focuses on Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) using TFS 2015 in an on-premises scenario. Most of the steps are directly applicable to Visual Studi...
IntelliTest – One Test to rule them all
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. Generating traditional unit tests IntelliTest generates traditional unit test suites. When run on a piece of code-under-test, the IntelliTest engine tries to generate a test suite with high code coverage (in particular, it focuses on branch coverage by default). It does s...