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May 4th QLD Usergroup: Get your Kanban on!

April 30, 2012 Apr 30, 2012 04/30/12
Charles Sterling
(image) Anthony Borton is so good he can run a user group in Australia while in Redmond. Okay turns out he isn’t that good-but he does have really good people helping him and this month, David Cook, is stepping up to the plate to deliver an updated version of a talk he very successfully delivered at the Agile NZ Conference recently. ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta: Test Controller Goes 64 Bit!!

April 26, 2012 Apr 26, 2012 04/26/12
RubelS_MSFT
Visual Studio 2010 supported 64 bit Test Agent which used to allow us to do 64bit test runs as explained here. But Test Controller was capable of running in 32 bit mode only. As a 32 bit process, it was limited to 2GB of memory. This causes scale issues sometimes as QTController process starts throwing Out of Memory exceptions as it approaches...

Announcing Keyword-Driving Testing Integration from LogiGear

April 19, 2012 Apr 19, 2012 04/19/12
Charles Sterling
April 18th LogiGear gave the first look at their eagerly sought product, TestArchitect™ for Visual Studio®.  Tightly integrated with Visual Studio 11, LogiGear’s flagship product TestArchitect empowers users to quickly and effortlessly create as well as maintain very large volume of test cases within Microsoft Visual Studio by ...

Test Scribe for MTM 11 Beta is out

April 16, 2012 Apr 16, 2012 04/16/12
Gautam Goenka [MSFT]
 The Test Scribe Power Tool, which is used to generate documentation for test plan and test run for Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) has been updated for MTM 11 Beta.  The updated version is here.  The MTM 2010 version continues to be here...

Acceptance Testing UI using Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft Test Manager and Fit style tables

April 13, 2012 Apr 13, 2012 04/13/12
Charles Sterling
A while back I was sitting in a class by Rod Claar and he introduced the concept of using Fit tables for improving collaboration in software development. The way Fit tables do this is by enabling stakeholders and business analysts to enter expected input and the proper output in a tool they are comfortable with – like excel. A simple ...