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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, ...
System Center and IntelliTrace
Over the past little while, the System Center Operations Management team and the Visual Studio IntelliTrace team have been working together to create an increasingly rich debugging experience for applications in production environments. This collaborative effort provides the ability to take Application Failure events from System Center 2012 SP1 and export them as IntelliTrace files for tight integration in Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Update 2. We also take advantage of the integration with Team Foundation Server using the System Center Management Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Wor...
Help content for the Agile planning tools gets a makeover with TFS CU2
With the latest VS ALM TFS update, we've given the help content for the Agile Planning tools a makeover - as you can see by going to Collaborate and Collaborate (dig deeper). The collaborate content shows you how to use the Agile planning tools with the latest Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 with Update 2 installed. In particular, you can learn about: In addition, we've provided the following streamlined scenarios: And, an end-to-end guide to Add reports to a team project. As VS ALM content developers, we face a few interesting challenges: This recent content makeover is abou...
ALM Rangers ship guidance for DevOps bug resolution using IntelliTrace
We are pleased to announce that we have shipped a new exciting project, focused on IntelliTrace, under the Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance umbrella. This release supplements the Test Tooling Guide with the DevOps end-end scenario, giving you access to ALM end to end labs and guidance that include bug resolution using IntelliTrace. The Epics included in the guidance are: The guidance includes the following artefacts: Please also refer to Visual Studio 2012 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-on-Labs / Demo Scripts (https://aka.ms/treasure99) for additional Hand...
Visual Studio 2012 – Update 2 RTM!
Visual Studio Updates are a 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. Today we are excited to announce that Visual Studio Update 2 is now RTM! - see Soma’s Blog Post with the official announcement. Modern application lifecycle has been improved in Visual Studio Update 2 with significant improvements to both quality enablement and agile development. Agile development has been ...
Upgrade your 2012 team project from RTM to Update 2
In our effort to bring continuous improvements to the product, we have made improvements to the stock process templates in VS Update 2. If you have an account on our hosted service or when you create a new team project, your team projects are already updated with these changes. However if you have an on premises installation of TFS, the existing team projects are not updated automatically. This blog post explains the steps to add the same improvements between VS 2012 RTM and VS 2012 Update 2 to your existing team projects. The last section of this post explains which of these changes apply when you upgraded from...
Content Index for Visual Studio Web Tests and Load Tests
How to fix “TF400898: An Internal Error Occurred.” on your Kanban board in TFS 2012 Update 2
Kanban customizable columns was made publicly available in VS Update 2. You can read the release notes for an overview of the feature itself, and you can read an in-depth article to understand what happens under the hood. If you have an on premises installation of TFS, you might see the following error on the Kanban board The goal of this blog post is to get this error resolved. Why is this happening? In the in-depth article you can read that the work items on the board have states and the board columns. When you visit the board for the first time there are no board settings yet and it provisions it...