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Deploying and testing web applications using Release Management
Summary You have downloaded the Release Management for Visual Studio client, and are connected to either your Visual Studio Online account or to an on-premises Release Management Sever. You have created environments (either imported your Azure environments or created on-premises) to be used in the various stages of your release template. Now you want to author the deployment sequence for deploying and validating your web application in each stage. In the current state, you will have to write Powershell scripts on your own to be used in a stage. We’ll be looking to add a number of pre-done actions to help you ...
How to install RM Azure extension and use the Azure VM in Release Management
RM extension enables PowerShell DSC and WMF configuration required for Release Management Server to perform actions on the VM. By installing RM Extension to Azure VM, the user can add this VM as a vNext Azure Server in Release Management once the corresponding Azure subscription added. Steps to install Visual Studio Release Management Azure extension and to use the VM in Release Management. First, you'll need a Microsoft Azure account to create your VMs. If you don't have one yet, sign up here. 1. After creating Azure VM from Azure management portal, browse to the VM and click on Extensions. 2. Click on...
Application Insights – Metric Explorer – Part 1
When you drill through many of the charts from the Application Insights overview page, you get to a detailed view that we call Metrics Explorer (ME), which is the focus of this series of blog posts. In each post of this series, I’ll cover a different set of metrics, explaining what they represent and how to instrument your code to capture them. We have a number of blogs already on getting started with Application Insights, so I did not want to repeat it here, but I strongly encourage you to go through these videos and documentation on getting started: Setting up client performance metrics How long does ...
Cloud-based Load Testing from Europe is now possible
While the announcement regarding VSO availability in Europe was made a few days back, this post outlines what that means in the context of Cloud-based Load Testing with Visual Studio Online. For details on how to create a VSO account in Europe and what it means to have a VSO account in Europe, please refer to the announcement.For Cloud-based Load Testing, you can now perform load testing from Europe by creating a VSO account in Europe. Your Load testing infrastructure in the Cloud will be spawned in the Azure West EU Datacenter and your Load test data will also reside in the sam...
Cloud-based Load Testing REST APIs are here
Many of you are looking at being more agile when it comes to testing, and with increased focus on automation, there are quite a few who wants to integrate Load Testing as a regular test practice. This could be either for those validating performance of their nightly/weekly builds or those that just does not want to wait for big milestone releases to validate performance but instead do it as part of a more frequent Automated Testing. This is more of a “culture” thing and one that is catching up fast. That is why we now have REST APIs for Cloud-based Load Testing with Visual Studio Online. The Cloud-based Load Te...
Announcing a simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience for Load Testing
A natural extension to the cloud-based load service, this simplified browser-based authoring and configuration experience enables practically anyone to create and run a load test. Performance testing is often relegated to specialist performance engineers and treated as one of the niche areas of testing, where the tester needs to a proficient in the performance testing space. This new simplified browser-based authoring experience reduces this down to three simple options: the URL you want to test, how many users and how long do you want the load test to run for. If you are Visual Studio Ultimate user, to get s...
Upcoming Changes in Visual Studio Architecture and Design Tools
Introduction This post explains some of our plans for evolving our architecture and design tools in Visual Studio, including new capabilities and changes to existing capabilities that we will be delivering in the next major release and subsequent updates. Although these plans have already been informed by an analysis of usage data and talking extensively with customers, with this post we hope to spread the net even further and ask that you send us feedback on the overall direction and specific changes we are making so that we can affirm (or not) the direction we are taking and figure out how to solve any unmet ...
New Web Access Test features walk through
I just finished a Microsoft Virtual Academy on DevOps covering new features in Visual Studio Online and Team Foundation Server Update 4 with Jeff Levinson and we had a couple of the attendees ask for the Excel File that we used to create the Test Cases and the shared parameters. I decided to do one better…publish all the steps we went through including the excel File (as a table) Wanting to start from scratch we started by navigating to the Test hub and creating a new Test Plan. At this point we were able to show off some of the new and enhanced features 1. Test Plans and Suites are now work items S...
Application Insights SDK (0.11.0-prerelease)
What is it? Application Insights SDK lets you send telemetry to the Application Insights portal, where you can find out what users are doing with your application. 0.11.0 is the latest SDK release for Application Insights. This SDK includes new functionality and new concepts in addition to a change to the API. For information on the previous 0.10 release please read this blog post. Data sent through this SDK will only be visible through the Microsoft Azure Preview Portal. (Previous versions sent data to an earlier edition of Application Insights, accessed through Visual Studio Online.) To find out more inf...