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Why does Visual Studio 2013 display “Visual Studio 2010” in the Test settings dialog
Had a question come up today on one of the distribution lists: Why does the Data and Diagnostics adapter reference Visual Studio 2010 even in Visual Studio 2013? Turns out this dialogue is trying to convey that this is the old way or the “Visual Studio 2010” way of static code coverage where users need to configure individual assemblies for collection. In Visual Studio 2013 to get code coverage results you can just right click from the Test explorer I have also had people ask: How the heck do you get the Test Settings dialog to display!? The easiest way is to add one of t...
Part 3: Unit testing with Traits and code coverage in Visual Studio 2012 using the TFS Build – and the new NuGet adapter approach
The Unit Testing series by one of the ALM MVPs Terje Sandstrom has been some of the highest read posts on the ALM blog…In this post he shows how to easily provide unit Test Adapters from NuGet. Thanks for the Great Post Terje! ********************************************************** This is the 3rd post in a series on Unit Testing in Visual Studio 2012, this one focusing on how to use the new features with the TFS Build system, but also some news on unit testing in Visual Studio itself, in particular the use of NuGet as an engine for providing the adapters. We will also cover the setup and cus...
Microsoft Test Manager: Customization of test result fields and marking test results as NA
As part of the MTM enhancements in the Visual Studio Update 2, we introduced a feature to customize the test result analysis fields like 'Resolution' and 'Failure type'. Different projects may have different reporting needs and this feature lets you do just that. You can customize the values that appear in these fields based on your project requirements, using a simple command. This nice post by Colin Dembovsky talks in detail about this capability. We also introduced a new test outcome state called 'Not applicable' for marking test results in MTM or the TEST hub. When you are doing your test...
Testing Improvements in Team Foundation Service Update for TechEd 2013
As Brian said we have made a ton of improvements for Testers with the Team Foundation Service released during TechEd. In looking at the last two sprints in TFS I see over 14 new features! Many of these features are self explanatory but thought i would high light some my favorites! Add/rename/delete new attachments, parameters and values to a test case One of the best way for testers to walk through a test case is to have a rich information set guiding them during the execution. By adding support for attaching images, shared steps and parameters testers should have a much better success wh...
Blog Updates
You may have noticed some updates to the blog today. We’ve made a few changes to better accommodate how readers are using the blog. Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of growth in the ALM team blog, both in terms of readership as well as the volume of content being posted. While we’re happy to have this increase in information being shared, we’re also hearing that it can become a challenge to navigate the content. To help with this, we’ve added some tabs to better organize categories of content. For example, as a tester I can now click on the “Testing” tab to view the l...
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...