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Team Foundation Service whitepaper has shipped!

April 11, 2012 Apr 11, 2012 04/11/12

Willy-P. Schaub

We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, delivering supporting guidance focused on Team Foundation Service. (image) For more information on the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” please refer to here or click the image above...

Automatic requirement traceability with Exploratory Testing

April 10, 2012 Apr 10, 2012 04/10/12

Nitin Gurram

My favorite feature of exploratory testing with Microsoft Test Manager is automatic requirement traceability, that it automatically builds up my test plan as I perform my explorations. So let's say that I have a backlog item that my team is working on and it is now ready to be tested. To perform exploratory testing on it, I launch ...

Lab Management walkthrough using Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview Virtual Machine

April 9, 2012 Apr 9, 2012 04/9/12

Charles Sterling

  Updated 7/16/2012: Please note this an archived post and the Lab Management VHD has been retired and been removed from the Microsoft Downloads site.                                             ...

TFS Integration Tools – March 2012 Release

April 4, 2012 Apr 4, 2012 04/4/12

Importer

Last month the team silently released a new release of the TFS Integration Tools on the Visual Studio Gallery, which now includes support for Team Foundation Server 11 and Team Foundation Service. (image) (image) The list of resolved bugs which we received from the community and from internal dogfooding environments is substantial: General...

Test Tooling Guides BETA has shipped!

April 4, 2012 Apr 4, 2012 04/4/12

Willy-P. Schaub

We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, delivering guidance for both Coded UI and MTM testing. (image) For more information on the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” please refer to here or click the image above. For more information on ...

Build on the Team Foundation Service

March 27, 2012 Mar 27, 2012 03/27/12

Aaron Bjork

Today we are pleased to enable another great capability of Team Foundation Server on the Team Foundation Service Preview, Build. With the introduction of build we are combining the power and flexibility of Team Build with the low friction setup of the Team Foundation Service and continuing our efforts to provide the most powerful cloud based ...

Changing the default filter for exploratory testing

March 24, 2012 Mar 24, 2012 03/24/12

Nitin Gurram

For performing exploratory testing with Microsoft Test Manager, when we go to Test -> Do exploratory testing   we see a list of work items that are of requirement category and have the same area path and iteration path as that of the test plan. The idea behind having these conditions in the default query is that in most cases, the user ...

The Code Index – Part 3 – Code samples for using indexed information

March 21, 2012 Mar 21, 2012 03/21/12

Importer

We have published two samples, on the Code Gallery showing how to get data from the code index.The first sample, Code Index - How to get statistics about your code, shows how to retrieve some statistical information from the code index, and in particular: Looking at the sample&...

Visual Studio 11 Beta – Changes in Web Performance Test / Load Test Workflow

March 20, 2012 Mar 20, 2012 03/20/12

RubelS_MSFT

With Visual Studio 11 Beta, you will see some changes in Web Performance Test / Load Test workflow.  In this post, I’ll be highlighting those changes.          Creating Web Performance Test / Load TestThere has been some changes around creating Web Performance Test / Load Test. Now we've ...

Running IntelliTrace on Applications in Production

March 16, 2012 Mar 16, 2012 03/16/12

Esther Fan

After we released IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate, customers commonly asked us about debugging applications with IntelliTrace outside Visual Studio or Microsoft Test Manager. This can be very useful in an environment where your application has a repeatable problem, but you can’t attach a debugger, and you have to dig into ...