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Implementing Traits in custom Visual Studio Test Adapters
Terje Sandstrom has written two excellent blogs on using Traits in Visual Studio Test Explorer. How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits in the Unit Test Explorer Part 2–Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer In this blog, I will describe how you can implement Traits support for a custom Test adapter. [NOTE: This feature is only available in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1] I will use the XML Test Adapter that I had created in this blog. I will add a category attribute for each test case. My test xml file looks like this now. I modified XMLTes...
ALM Rangers ship update #1 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in
We are pleased to announce that we have released the first update to version (1.0.12.0622) of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in, adding support for Word 2010 64-bit. See Word4TFS10-x64misi and Rangers_vsarword4tfs_1.0.12.0622_Everything.zip files in the latest The add-in allows you to import work items from a Team Foundation Server Team Project and generate professional-looking Word document from TFS Work items. Note that users will need to be appropriately licensed for Team Foundation Server access when using this tool. See the licensing whitepaper for more information. Please send candid feedback! ...
Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio Update 1
Another in the ALM MVP Blog series. This article was written by Mike Douglas one of our most active ALM Rangers contributing to a bunch of the ALM Ranger projects! Make sure and check out Mikes article: Continuous Feedback using Storyboarding, Code Reviews, and the Feedback Tool in Visual Studio 2012 ALM (The ALM Ranger projects are projects that community members get together and build to give back to the community with a goal to provide with out-of-band solutions for missing features and guidance!) Thanks for the great post Mike! *********************************************************************...
Integrating existing testing systems with Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio
I have been working with different partners in the testing space for the last couple of months and a frequently asked question is: “Where do we start integrating our test tools with the Microsoft application life cycle platform?” And the answer is relatively straight simple “You need to integrate yourself into the development workflow…we use Team Foundation Server for that ALM workflow engine” Unfortunately simple doesn’t always mean comprehensible…so I typically go on to say: “…So that you can your tests run as part of the build process –and let the development team know if the tests passed/fai...
Introducing SharePoint Emulators
The Visual Studio team is pleased to announce availability of Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint Emulators. Unit testing for SharePoint code is difficult. Ideally you would like to isolate code under test from the surrounding SharePoint framework. Isolation frameworks, such as Microsoft Fakes, can enable this code isolation. Unfortunately, as anyone who has followed this path will tell you, creating and maintaining the set of mocks and fakes for the SharePoint environment can be very costly. Luckily, the SharePoint Emulators team has done the heavy lifting for you. SharePoint Emulators provide a system of Fakes based ...
Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guidance
Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. Issue It is not simple to implement a consistent branching model, that complies with the VS TFS Branching and Merging Guide. Ultimately you would want support for this inside Visual Studio. Resolution Team Foundation Server has extensive support for version control and branching management through the object model. You can create your own solution, using the sampl...
Part 2–Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer
As promised one of the ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, has delivered Part 2 of his Unit Test Series: “Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer”. From the traffic and comments on his first post these are clearly very appreciated articles! Thanks Terje! *********************************************************************************************************************************************’ In Part 1 traits in general was described, and we used examples from using MSTest as a testing framework. In this part we will built upon what we did in Part 1, but extend it with many of the ...
Retrying failed playback actions with Coded UI
This blog assumes that you have basic understanding of Coded UI and are familiar with the code generated from a recording on Winforms, WPF or Web applications. A lot of times, while running a UI test, our test runs into an unexpected pagestate, say an unexpected error dialog, dismissing which would make our test work, or maybe the server takes too long to respond on occasion and if that happens, rather than having the test rerun from the start, all we want is for it to resume when the page is loaded. As part of VS Update 1, we have added API support for Retrying or Skipping a failed UI action and continuing p...
New Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool is Available!
In the last month I have seen multiple requests for a new Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool – and here it is! The Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool provides a Wizard Based UI for upgrading Visual Source Safe repositories to Team Foundation Server 2012, 2010 or Team Foundation Service (http://tfs.visualstudio.com/) Upgrades the follow from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server (TFS) version control: Documentation can be found at: