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Run your Coded UI tests against Chrome using the Selenium cross-browser plugin
Had somebody recently asking about running Coded UI Tests against Chrome and thought i would walk through this process: 1. Down load the Cross-browser plugin for Coded UI Test that uses Selenium to run tests against Chrome and Firefox from here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=267598 3. Record a Coded UI test in IE 4. Change the browser to run the same test against Chrome using the BrowserWindow object i.e. BrowserWindow.CurrentBrowser = "Chrome"; Viola your coded UI Test can now run in Chrome! For more information please see the following blog posts:
How to modify the UpgradeTemplate.xaml to enable releasing from a build
Release Management provides the option to trigger a release from a build. But to use this feature, some additional logic has to be added to the default build process template. You can refer to my previous post on doing this with the default build process templates for TFS 2013. This article details how to make the necessary modifications specifically for the UpgradeTemplate.xaml. If you are currently using the default UpgradeTemplate.xaml build process template If you are using the default UpgradeTemplate.xaml build process template all you need to do is use the corresponding ReleaseUpgradeTemplate.xaml build p...
Free Webinar Scaled Agile Framework and Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Feb 4 11:30 AM PST
Next Tuesday Barry Paquet Agile Coach and certified SAFe Program Consultant (PSC) from InCycle Software will give an introduction to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and discuss how he has been solving customer’s issues with SAFe and the Visual Studio ALM Tools. Should be a great show! Starts: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 11:30 AM Time zone: (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time (US & Canada) Duration: 1 hour(s)Registration Link: http://www.microsoft.com/click/services/Redirect2.ashx?CR_CC=200353078&CR_EAC=300148771Session Abstract: The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) is a proven framework for impl...
Using Visual Studio Online to Load Test the NORAD tracks Santa website
My name is Mauricio Avilés and I am a Test Consultant in the Microsoft Enterprise Services / IT Service Management Practice. I am part of a team of experienced consultants who specialize on all things testing related. In this post we will walk you through the way we used Visual Studio Online (VSO) Load Testing Service to test the capacity of NORAD Tracks Santa (NTS) website. This site allows children to track Santa Claus while he delivers gifts throughout the world. Spearheaded by the Internet Explorer, the NTS experience combined multiple products and services across Microsoft, including Windows, Windows Phon...
New TFS book soon available: Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization
Never ceases to amaze me how some of our community rock stars are able to discover and do so much with almost no contact with the Team Foundation Server development team…And just to make sure this phenomena doesn’t make sense; there also seems to be an inverse relationship with these folks and their remoteness! In either case from my interactions with Gordon and knowing some of the books inspiration came from another community icon, Tiago Pascoal, Gordon’s soon to be available book: “Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization” will definitely be on my wish list! Thanks Gordon! About the author: Gordon Beem...
Cloud Load Testing and Application Insights Webinar – January 23rd
Invitation code for trialing Application Insights
I have had a couple people mention they had submitted a request for an Application Insights invitation code- but they never received a reply. Just wanted to let people know we try and get back to all requests at least by the following business day…So if you didn’t get a reply a spam filter may have gobbled it up! The reason we were using these codes is so that if we did find ourselves running into a capacity issues we could stop new people adding load to the system and trialing Application Insights with a bad experience. Since it is has been several months and we haven’t had any issues of that nature i asked t...
Announcing: Updated Visual Studio 2013 RTM ALM Virtual Machine + Hands-on-Labs & Demo Scripts
Brian Keller and his crew upgraded the Visual Studio 2013 ALM Virtual Machine today to include the sample content and hands-on-labs / demo scripts which were previously introduced for Visual Studio 2010 and 2012 capabilities. This brings the total number of hands-on-labs and demo scripts which work with this VM to 24. You can find the full list of ALM virtual machines and their labs here. If you are reading this offline, the 24 hands-on-labs are: New features in Visual Studio 2013: Labs upgraded from Visual Studio 2010/2012: NEW ...
Investigating Memory Leaks in Azure Web Sites with Visual Studio 2013
One of the cool new features in Visual Studio 2013 is the ability to analyze managed memory issues. Recently, Azure Web Sites added support to programmatically get mini-dumps and “diagsession” files that have heap information from Azure Web Sites in production. In this walkthrough, I’ll show you how to combine these two new features to form a cool end to end scenario for investigating memory leaks in production Azure Web Sites using a little PowerShell. Set up an Azure Web Site using Git I’m going to start from scratch with setting up a new website using git deployment. The key takeaways from this first section...