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Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs whitepaper
EDITED: 6/20/2018. See below. We are pleased to publish the following whitepaper: Scaled Agile Framework: Using TFS to support epics, release trains, and multiple backlogs. The Scaled Agile Framework, or SAFe, is gaining popularity among organizations looking to scale Agile practices to the enterprise level. SAFe is a comprehensive framework, covering practices from portfolio level planning to release planning to coding practices. While TFS does not provide full support for all SAFe practices, TFS can be used to implement many of the planning practices. This whitepaper provides practical guidance on how to imp...
New Intellitrace article from Testing Experience: Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace
If you don’t have a free subscription to Testing Experience yet now is definitely a great time to sign up as they have a new article on Intellitrace! Always Know What’s Going On Successful Quality Management with Visual Studio IntelliTrace Software development can be nerve-wracking. As a developer, you often think that the work is completed once the software has been checked in. However, this often does not take into account quality assurance, which may then discover many surprising errors in the software after all, even though the subject of examination has already undergone its comp...
Application Insights SDK (0.10.0-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. 0.10.0 is the latest SDK release for Application Insights. This SDK includes new functionality and new concepts in addition to a change in the basic architecture. 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, which is part of Visual Studio Online.) To find out more information about the different versions of Appl...
Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server Update 4 CTP 1 now available
If you have been looking forward to the last set of Visual Studio Online Features to become available to Team Foundation Server your wait is OVER! You can find many of your favorite Visual Studio Online features in the first Technology Preview for Update 4 (CTP 1); to download it please see: Download Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 CTP 1. To see all the fixes please see the KB: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2994375 Team Foundation Server Features Visual C++ Features Trend charts + aggregation with new chart types: Stacked Area, Area, and Line We’ve also enabled a new feature to...
Monitoring your existing Applications
Sometimes you want to monitor a web application that’s already installed and running – without updating the code or redeploying it. Maybe it has some kind of performance issues or is throwing exceptions and you need to apply instrumentation ASAP. Now you can do that with Application Insights Status Monitor. Just by installing it on your server, you get performance telemetry right away, and you can add web tests too. If, later, you want to insert trace code or usage analytics, you can go back to the standard method of adding Application Insights to your app project. [BTW - this applies to Application Insights in...
Free and unlimited project stakeholders, and organizational accounts for Visual Studio Online
Was just going through my email and noticed the announcement for two new features for Visual Studio Online: **************** Invite stakeholders to a project to keep them informed on what's happening with that team or project. They’ll have access to the team home page, where they can view updated project information. They’ll also have access to the backlog, taskboard, and Kanban board, where they can create and edit work items or work item queries. You can add unlimited stakeholders to your team projects at no charge – in addition to the five Visual Studio Online Basic users you get for fre...
Data-Driven Load Tests using Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure
Editors Note: While working in Australia I was blessed to work with some truly gifted technologists. In the SQL space David Lean was the local legend with the (deserved) reputation of being THE SQL Performance Guru. David has since left Microsoft but continue his cutting edge work with SQL Server and Application Tuning. Thanks for the great post on using SQL Azure and performance Testing David! -Chuck Data-Driven Load Tests using Visual Studio Online and SQL Azure Almost everyone who IT Operations for a large company can tell you war stories about apps whose performance died within 18 mths of goi...
PerfTips: Performance Information at-a-glance while Debugging with Visual Studio
Note: this post has been updated for Visual Studio 2015 RTM. You are probably all familiar with the debugger DataTips that let you see the value of a variable when you hover over it in the editor. This post introduces the new PerfTips feature in Visual Studio 2015 for C#/VB, and C++ developers on all Windows platforms. Why PerfTips? We have been releasing new and improved performance tools in the Performance and Diagnostics hub in Visual Studio 2013 that help you diagnose performance issues in your app. However, for many of you, the majority of your time is dedicated to getting the app to function correctly (a...
Application Insights – instrumentation approaches for running tests
[this summer Beckylin Orooji from the University of Central Florida in Orlando studying Computer Science interned with the Application Insights team in the developer division at Microsoft. Below is a blog she authored based on some end to end scenarios she worked on] In my scenario today I have a shopping website. I have made some changes to the checkout process and want to see if those changes have resulted in more people checking out. I want to make decisions based on the data I receive; depending on my results I will decide whether or not my changes were successful. Now, imagine you have two different versio...