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Using Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta Feedback Client tool with Windows 8 Metro Style applications

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

Charles Sterling

(image) For Windows 8 Metro style applications the Visual Studio 11 Test Tools ( Visual Studio 11 Beta Microsoft Test Manager and the Microsoft Feedback Client) are expected to be connected via a remote session using Remote Desktop Connection (MSTSC.exe) or using the simulator integrated into Visual Studio 11 Beta.   To the right ...

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 ...

Very nice video about what’s new in Visual Studio 11 Dependency Graphs

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

Jean-Marc Prieur

After Esther who explained how to Visualize Code with Visual Studio 11 Beta last week, Chris blogged this week-end about What's new in Visual Studio 11 Dependency Graph Features. He has recorded a great video (WMV 17mb, MP4 14mb), going through the main features: A must watch...

Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests–Released to Codeplex

March 9, 2012 Mar 9, 2012 03/9/12

Importer

The purpose of Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests is to help you write more maintainable Coded UI tests for your web apps.  When building Web UI Tests the way that's proposed here - you aren't going to be recording test scripts nor building UI Maps. Instead, you'll be writing Page Objects that are ...

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 ...

Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization Guide BETA has shipped!

March 7, 2012 Mar 7, 2012 03/7/12

Willy-P. Schaub

We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, which delivers practical guidance and extensive PowerShell and Custom Control supporting samples for Team Foundation Server Process template customization. (image) For more information on the ALM Rangers Visual ...

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 ...