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Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter
I have recently had a couple of requests on how to run a subset of your tests; indicating that people haven’t see the blog post by Vikram Agrawal [MSFT] titled: Running selective unit tests in VS 2012 using TestCaseFilter *******************************republishing below********************************* New unit testing platform in Visual Studio 2012 provides a new way to selectively execute test based on filtering condition through TestCaseFilter. TestCaseFilter can as specified as a string while executing tests through command line (vstest.console.exe), Team Build (when running test using “Vis...
TFS/Agile PM: Configuring so your tasks are estimated in story points
I’ve had a few people ask: “What if I estimate my tasks in something other than hours, like ideal days or story points?” The truth of the matter is, the “Remaining Work” field on the Task work item is just a dumb integer. You can enter anything you like in it. The only thing that even references what unit it might be in is the little “h” that appears on the task board and on the capacity pane. If you are installing TFS 2012 on-premise, this little “h” is configurable to be whatever you want. (Unfortunately, it is not configurable for tfspreview.com … yet) Here’s how: Step 1: Export the confi...
Team Foundation Service: Process template changes
With this latest Team Foundation Service update, we have updated the process template versions for all the templates. Agile and CMMI are at 6.1. Scrum is at 2.1. This reflects a few minor improvements we've made:- For Agile, the User Story's state model has been updated to allow you to transition from any state to any other state. - For Scrum, we did the same for Product Backlog Item and Bug.- For CMMI, we corrected some bugs where the ResolvedBy, ResolvedDate, ActivatedBy, ActiviatedDate fields were not being set/cleared properly on some transitions.We have noticed in the industry a desire to move towards a less...
TestArchitect by LogiGear offers module-based keyword test authoring for Visual Studio 2012
In collaboration with my team here at Microsoft, LogiGear developed a keyword-driven automation platform exclusively as a Visual Studio extension for efficient large-scale test automation. TestArchitect for Visual Studio uses module-based keyword test authoring to automate coded UI tests in Visual Studio 2012. By eliminating coding, keyword based testing allows more team members to be involved in test design and execution. This dovetails with the direction of Visual Studio as a team collaboration tool. By encapsulating elements of the automation in keywords, the technique offers a natural way to eliminate unneede...
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Power Tools Ships
This release supports Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012. Included in this release: For a detail description of this release please see: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Power Tools on codeplexhttp://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/b1ef7eb2-e084-4cb8-9bc7-06c3bad9148f
10+ Free ALM Webcasts on TFS 2012, Load Testing from the Cloud, Managing Labs, Branching, Kanban and MORE!
Imaginet has more ALM MVPs working for them than any single company on the planet…So when they do community activities they do them BIG. Here is their current list of free ALM Webcasts…. Upgrading to TFS 2012: What You Need to Know! Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 brings a number of new features into the integrated ALM toolset. With new features like PowerPoint Storyboarding, Integrated Code Review Features, Stakeholder Feedback, and a newly integrated Developer / Operations Workflow, you will quickly find many reasons to upgrade to Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012! In this webinar, we...
How do I get my Visual Studio 2012 feature video links back?
One of the projects I worked on for Visual Studio 2012 was the feature Videos that show up both in the Ultimate and Premium start pages AND and in the features themselves. As you may have noticed the video links in the features give you the option to “Don’t show this again” at which point the the links and text disappear –forever. If you want to re-watch these videos the easiest way is to just bring up the start page: View > Start Page Now if you do demos and want to show your audience what the experience looks like in the feature you you can restore the links by deleting the contents/children of ...
“The Visual Guide for Building Team Foundation Server 2012 Environments” the first Middle East & Africa ALM Community publication
The level of contribution some our ALM community members dedicate to helping their peers is amazing. Here is an example of what three community members, Mohamed Radwan, Ayman El-Hattab and Hosam Kamel, created to help folks getting started with their TFS environments. Great work Guys!The Visual Guide for Building Team Foundation Server 2012 Environments is not only intended to walk you through the installation and the configuration process of Team Foundation Server 2012 but it is also written and designed to reflect real-world experience of the installation and configuration processes via detailed ste...
Changes to the Process Templates between VS 2012 Beta, RC and RTM
This blog post is for the people who started using the Beta or RC version of VS 2012 and created projects in either of these versions that are still active.In case you want to update your work item types to the level of RTM, you can do two things: If you want to follow step 2, here is the list of changes that we have done:From Beta to RCWhen we shipped the Beta we wanted to hide the ‘complexity’ how the items are prioritized on the backlog from the user by not showing the field on the work item form. From feedback we found out by not showing the field, it was not possible for the user to prior...