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March 12th TFSPreview.com Update

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12
doug.neumann
Today, we pushed a small update to the hosted Team Foundation Service, and I wanted to share some insight into our update cadence and what’s new in this particular release. We’re going to be blogging about all of our interesting updates so that you can have an idea about what’s new and pertinent to your use. As you may know, we’ve ...

Getting Started with Exploratory Testing

March 12, 2012 Mar 12, 2012 03/12/12
Nitin Gurram
  How many times have you been in a situation when you found a bug while doing some ad hoc testing but couldn’t report it because you couldn’t reproduce it again. Or you filed a bug during a bug bash, it was fixed but it reappeared in the software because there was no way you could have remembered to test it again. If you are a ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta: Manual Testing of Windows Metro Style Apps

March 8, 2012 Mar 8, 2012 03/8/12
Mathew Aniyan MSFT
NOTE: This article assumes that you are familiar with Microsoft Test Manager. See this *MSDN article for a full description of Manual Testing features available with Visual Studio 11. This article focuses on the features that are specific to Windows Metro style apps available in Windows Consumer Preview.* ** With Dev11 Beta, now available at...

Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: July – December 2011

March 8, 2012 Mar 8, 2012 03/8/12
Erin Dormier
Summary We have heard many customers ask about the internal usage of TFS across Microsoft.  Microsoft IT has an offering of TFS and I have included some data and trends of this IT offering throughout the second half of 2011 (July – December 2011).  I plan to publish data like this every 6 months.  Overall, we are continuing to have ...

What’s New in Visual Studio 11 Beta Unit Testing

March 8, 2012 Mar 8, 2012 03/8/12
Peter Provost [MSFT]
For those of you who haven’t been following the changes to unit testing that we first previewed back at the //BUILD/ conference, and for those you who did but want to know what has changed, this post is going to take you through the whole thing. We have made a lot of changes to testing in Visual Studio. These changes are pretty drastic ...

Visual Studio 11 Beta Testing Documentation

March 6, 2012 Mar 6, 2012 03/6/12
Howie Hilliker
The Visual Studio 11 Beta is released and along with it comes some updated testing documentation. The updated content can be found in the MSDN library within the Visual Studio 11 Beta documentation. The updated functionality and content specific to Visual Stuio ALM testing includes the following:Test project compatibility and ...

Update Your Agile Team Project to Support Additional Functionality After You Upgrade from TFS 2010 to TFS11 Beta

March 6, 2012 Mar 6, 2012 03/6/12
Ewald Hofman - MSFT
Summary When a new version of TFS comes out, there are new features. Some of those features are backed by metadata such as work item types and work item categories. If you had to upgrade your TFS 2008 team project to TFS 2010 you know that this can be a daunting exercise. For TFS11 there are also a couple of features that need changes to the ...