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Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: January – June 2012

July 23, 2012 Jul 23, 2012 07/23/12

Erin Dormier

Significance of Window Titles in Coded UI Test Playback

July 15, 2012 Jul 15, 2012 07/15/12

Tapas Sahoo [MSFT]

The control search in Coded UI Test playback is essentially a breadth first search. For extension plugins that have in-built search capability, the plugin writer can implement its own search logic. What typically remains the same is the way the search is done for the top level window of the application. Consider a top level window UI ...

Keyword Driven Testing Webcast July 18th with Visual Studio and LogiGear by Hans Buwalda

July 13, 2012 Jul 13, 2012 07/13/12

Charles Sterling

 In the last 6 months, I have been able to spend some time with one of the pioneers in the keyword and Data-driven Testing space, Hans Buwalda.  While at Star East Hans agreed to do a MSDN Webcast on this exciting topic – So naturally I jumped on the opportunity!  Session Details: Starts: July-18-12 10:00 AM Time ...

Using the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector Remotely

July 9, 2012 Jul 9, 2012 07/9/12

Bill Horst

This post pertains to the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector, a new feature associated with Visual Studio 2012.  The Standalone Collector allows you to collect IntelliTrace logging information on one machine (e.g. a production server) and analyze the log on another machine (e.g. the dev machine in your office).  This post will ...

Javascript Unit Tests on Team Foundation Service with Chutzpah

July 9, 2012 Jul 9, 2012 07/9/12

Mathew Aniyan MSFT

Significant investments were made in Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing to make it extensible. A number of frameworks and test runners have built adapters for Visual Studio. Peter Provost maintains a list of Plugins here. For Javascript Unit Testing in Visual Studio, Matthew Mannela has released Chutzpah, an open source Javascript Test Runner.  ...

UI Test Plugin for Silverlight Applications

July 8, 2012 Jul 8, 2012 07/8/12

Mathew Aniyan MSFT

Using the Microsoft Visual Studio UI Test plugin for Silverlight, you can create Coded UI Tests or action recordings for Silverlight applications. Action recordings let you fast forward through steps in a manual test using Microsoft Test Manager. Coded UI Tests let you record actions, generate code and play back user interface tests using ...

Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide – Localised for Japan

June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12

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The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Masashi Fujiwara (藤原 祐之), localized and reviewed the Quick Reference Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://...

Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide – Localized for Japan

June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12

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The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Hirokazu Higashino (東野 紘和), localized and reviewed the Branching Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://...

Installing the TFS Plug-in through the Eclipse Marketplace

June 21, 2012 Jun 21, 2012 06/21/12

Martin Woodward

Now-a-days most versions of Eclipse come bundled with the Eclipse Marketplace Client which is, by far, the easiest way to find and install new plug-ins into Eclipse.  This includes Team Explorer Everywhere, the TFS Plug-in for Eclipse. (image) Anyone can browse and search for Eclipse plug-ins by visiting the Eclipse Marketplace web site, ...

Visual Studio 2012 RC – What’s new in Code Coverage

June 19, 2012 Jun 19, 2012 06/19/12

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  As product development adapts to the demands of continuous delivery models and agile methodologies, the developer is being entrusted with bringing in product changes with a higher quality bar. Besides strengthening processes to include quality checkpoints like gated check-ins, rolling builds and other regression checks, the developer ...