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Odin ships Axe 3.4 simultaneously with Visual Studio 2012
One of the frustrating things about Test Automation is that to do it properly you need your testers and developers to work together but the problem arises from the fact developers don’t want to write tests and testers don’t want to code. For this reason most companies find it very difficult to get automation their automation efforts off the ground! The Axe product from Visual Studio Industry Partner, Odin, uses code generation to enable testers to use Excel to create lots of robust test automation code without having to pick up a C# book! In a nutshell, Axe allows Testers to define tests in Excel spread-sheets ...
Customizable Process Guidance for VS ALM 2012
Customizable process guidance is now available for each of the default process templates that VS ALM Team Foundation Server provides. You can download and unzip these files, modify them to support your team processes, and redirect the process guidance link to your customized content. For downloads, see Customizable Process Guidance Content for VS ALM 2012. These files contain the corresponding content provided on MSDN for the following three process templates: Also, a flat TOC with links to the main topics is included, as shown below for the Agile process template. To learn more about redirecting pr...
Visual Studio 2012: “Where is the Test Toolbar. Couldn’t find it anywhere”
On Jason Zanders’s blog I noticed the question: …where is the Test Toolbar. Couldn't find it anywhere. In Visual Studio 2012 we made an effort to simplify the user interface to give people more room for their own work and to make the IDE more productive. Part of this simplification was not showing as many toolbars by default. In most cases those toolbars are still there – you just need to enable them via **Tools > Customize **or right click on the standard toolbar and choose **Customize. ** In the case of the Test toolbar many of the paradigms have changed with the introduction of the Test Explorer so ...
What is this Lab Management network traffic: QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks, QueryTestMachines, QueryLabEnvironments etc
Just received a question on an internal distribution list: What is Lab Management doing on the Network? I am seeing traffic like: Lab Management QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks Date Machine_name IP_Address Mac_Address Team Foundation (QTController.exe, 11.0.50727.1, Other, SKU:9) QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks Lab Management &nbs...
Gartner starts a study on Testing tools and publishes its findings on Magic Quadrant for Application Life Cycle Management
If you are wondering about different vendors of Application Lifecycle Management Tools it is worth taking a look at their latest research where Gartner positions Microsoft in the ALM Leaders Quadrant: Read the Magic Quadrant for ALM reportTom Murphy is also starting research project on trends in testing organizations. So if you are interested in having your voice in the next Gartner report please visit the Gartner Testing Organization survey.
Choosing the Right Tool for the Task to Manage Projects, Collaborate, and Monitor Progress in Visual Studio ALM
If you are using Visual Studio TFS 2013, you can find this level of information in the following topic: Choose the Team Foundation client to support your tasks.In Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 you have a number of tools to perform some familiar tasks as well as excercise new tasks. In some cases, you can only exercise some features from a single interface. In others, you can choose from several Team Foundation clients. In this post, we provide a roadmap for you to choose the best tool for your task. Legend for the following tables: Plan and Manage Projects, Track WorkWith the introduct...
ALM Rangers Demo Factory Team release their first demo nuggets!
The ALM Rangers started the Demonstration factory initiative to raise the overall quality bar of hands-on labs and to create DemoMate based recordings. The team’s key objectives were to improve** accuracy** and consistency in terms of style and delivery of hands-on labs and walkthroughs. ALM Rangers Demo Factory nuggets The solutions for the associated guidance and latest hands-on lab manuals can be found here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ee358787. Online Offline Other Nuggets Other online DemoMate nuggets, primarily developed for Brain Keller’s (DPE) Visual Studio Virtual machin...
Changing fields on the Visual Studio Extension Gallery page
Had a community member ask: I want to change some fields on my Visual Studio Extension Gallery page. These fields do not appear to be editable: · “Supported Versions” · “Supported Visual Studio 2010 Editions” Luckily one of our old time ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, had the answer: Make sure and check out his posts on Architecture and Code Analysis: How to fix the CA0053 error in Code Analysis in Visual Studio 2012 Issues with mixed C++ and C# projects in Visual Studio 2012 running Code Analysis Video on Architecture...
Clearing the credentials for connecting to a Team Foundation Server
Ran in to a situation a couple of days ago where i needed to log into a Team Foundation Server as a different user - and since Visual Studio/Team Explorer "remembers" your last credentials you don't have a chance to re-enter these credentials. This information is cached even after removing and re-adding the server in team explorer. Which begs the question - where is it cached? Turns out we are relying on Windows to do this for us. To dump this cache all you need to do is go to control panel > User Accounts > Manage Your Network Passwords select the Team foundation Server and choose remove - viola! Next time...