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Final ALM Certification Jumpstarts May 28th and May 29th
Earlier this month Anthony Borton, Lead ALM Consultant at Enhance ALM, and Steven Borg, Co-founder and Strategist at Northwest Cadence, delivered a very successful Jumpstart for Microsoft Virtual Academy. This FREE day-long online session helped prepare attendees prepare for exam 70-498: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management. The JumpStart was attended by over 626 unique individuals from 72 different countries. If you missed the session, I’m pleased to announce it is now available on-demand at https://t.co/Qlcwj92Eg3. From the evaluations it was one...
Announcing the ability to Test Windows Phone 8 applications with Experitest SeeTest
For testing Heterogeneous and mobile environments we have relied on world class partners. SeeTest from Experitest now enables Microsoft developers test mobile applications inc WIndowsPhone8, iOS, Android and Blackberry. Experitest is a recognized leader in mobile testing and touts several powerful benefits with the latest release of SeeTest: Using SeeTest couldn’t be easier either with a simple two-step process: Step 1****: Build your test in Visual Studio Using the SeeTest template in Visual Studio Project you create a SeeTest project… Step 2: Click on the SEETEST menu in Visual Studio you c...
Enabling seamless integration with Team Foundation Server, Microsoft Test Professional and HP ALM with Opshub v5.3
*Today I am happy to announce that in addition to the bi-direction synchronization between the HP ALM - TFS systems, OpsHub’s newest release v5.3 has added integration with test case management and tracking features. * **Easy 3 step configuration ** OpsHub Integration Manager (OIM) provides for easy configuration, mapping and integration between HP ALM and TFS systems in simple three step process. Maps can be defined at the project level enabling project consolidation. You can also define your information map from where you are to Team Foundation Server enabling complete data integration between the two...
Known Issue and Workaround for TFS 2012 Update 3 RC1
UPDATE - This issue has been fixed in TFS 2012 Update 3 RC2, which is available here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2835600 This post is to report a known issue with alerts in Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 3 RC1. There is a partial workaround, which should be applied to the configuration database BEFORE upgrade to RC1 if possible. This issue will be fixed in Update 3 RC2. DescriptionThis bug causes some alert subscription evaluations in TFS to fail with an exception (an XPathException), even though they are actually valid. Upon receiving the exception, the exception handler...
Release Candidate of Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 now available
The Visual Studio Updates are a new mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market, and also offer an easy way to deploy bug fixes. To download this latest update please see: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=290979 For Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 we focused on your requests on the Connect site and addressed ~20 of your issues/requests. For the list of all these changes please see: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2835600 If it ...
Cloning test plans using Microsoft Test Manager
In Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced the capability to clone test plans in Microsoft Test Manager. This feature lets you clone test plan artifacts within a given team project, by creating copies of all the test cases, shared steps and requirements, recreating the same suite structure and applying the same test settings, environments, builds, configurations and other plan properties(test results and bugs are not cloned). Read through this post to know more about this functionality. We have often heard requests from our customers about being able to clone test plans while working across sprints o...
StarEast and an AMA with noted Test analyst Theresa Lanowitz this week
This week I will be at the Stareast 2013 conference manning the Microsoft Test booth, meeting testers, sneaking into Anna’s incredible Test training, doing demos of our Test tools and something that will be a first for me- I will be physically attending an AMA by one of the foremost Test analysts in the world, Theresa Lanowitz(founder of the analyst firm voke). While I am still working on my demos for the virtual session I am thinking of doing the following: Demo #1 Exploratory Testing From my visit to Starwest last Fall Exploratory Testing is definitely a big ticket item and the idea of “exploring” ...
Testing Java and Cross Platform applications with Squish and Microsoft Test Professional
One of the more common requests we hear from customers with heterogeneous environment is: “How do i test my Java/Cross Platform applications with Microsoft Test Professional” Turns out the answer is a bit of a surprise: “Use the same Java test tools you are (probably) already using” Froglogic, the creator of Squish, one of the most popular cross platform, cross device and Java Testing tools has created a plug-in for Visual Studio and Microsoft Test Manager so your test teams can do all their testing in a single environment-regardless of the platform. To make it easy to try out this new plug-in and get up and...
Free Microsoft Exam jump start for: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management
There has been a ton of excitement around the new ALM course and exams. Responding to this two of the ALM MVPs Anthony Borton and Steven Borg are offering a FREE jump start for Exam 70-498: Delivering Continuous Value with Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management. This Jump Start targets application development teams interested in leveraging Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) to improve their development processes and deliver continuous value with Visual Studio 2012. This fast-paced course will be team-taught by Steven Borg, Co-founder and Strategist at Northwest Cadence, and Anthony Borton, ...