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Javascript Unit Tests on Team Foundation Service with Chutzpah
Significant investments were made in Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing to make it extensible. A number of frameworks and test runners have built adapters for Visual Studio. Peter Provost maintains a list of Plugins here. For Javascript Unit Testing in Visual Studio, Matthew Mannela has released Chutzpah, an open source Javascript Test Runner. Chutzpah has a test adapter for Visual Studio 2012. With this adapter, you can run QUnit & Jasmine tests in Visual Studio. To run javascript unit tests in Visual Studio Unit Test Explorer, you just need to install the Chutzpah Test Adapter for Visual Studio 2012 from ...
UI Test Plugin for Silverlight Applications
Using the Microsoft Visual Studio UI Test plugin for Silverlight, you can create Coded UI Tests or action recordings for Silverlight applications. Action recordings let you fast forward through steps in a manual test using Microsoft Test Manager. Coded UI Tests let you record actions, generate code and play back user interface tests using Microsoft Visual Studio.This plugin supports Silverlight 4 & 5 applications hosted in Internet Explorer versions 8, 9 & 10. It requires Microsoft Visual Studio 2012 RC.A few members of the product team got together and built this plugin as an off-hours project. It is not...
Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide – Localised for Japan
The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Masashi Fujiwara (藤原 祐之), localized and reviewed the Quick Reference Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://vsarquickguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/52402. The Japanese guidance is available in AllGuides and Everything packages. The AllGuides package contains guidances in PDF file format, while the Everything package contains all files in PDF and Office 2007 file formats, including files necessary for localizati...
Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide – Localized for Japan
The Japanese community, under the mentorship of Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), have localised the Visual Studio 2010 Branching Guide. Release notes Rex Tang (湯川 智彦), Takaho Yamaguchi (山口 孝穂), Hirokazu Higashino (東野 紘和), localized and reviewed the Branching Guidance for the Japanese communities, based on http://vsarbranchingguide.codeplex.com/releases/view/38849. The Japanese guidance is available in AllGuides and Everything packages. The AllGuides package contains guidances in PDF file format, while the Everything package contains all files in PDF and Office 2007 file formats, including HOL Lab files.
Installing the TFS Plug-in through the Eclipse Marketplace
Now-a-days most versions of Eclipse come bundled with the Eclipse Marketplace Client which is, by far, the easiest way to find and install new plug-ins into Eclipse. This includes Team Explorer Everywhere, the TFS Plug-in for Eclipse. Anyone can browse and search for Eclipse plug-ins by visiting the Eclipse Marketplace web site, where you can also find the Eclipse update sites (if available) to install the plug-in. But if you have the Eclipse Marketplace Client installed you can also browse, search and install from Eclipse. To see if you have the Eclipse Marketplace Client installed, go to Help and look for ...
Visual Studio 2012 RC – What’s new in Code Coverage
As product development adapts to the demands of continuous delivery models and agile methodologies, the developer is being entrusted with bringing in product changes with a higher quality bar. Besides strengthening processes to include quality checkpoints like gated check-ins, rolling builds and other regression checks, the developer can provide a higher degree of confidence in their code by ensuring that all product code changes are accompanied by a strong suite of unit tests. Test Driven Development (TDD) is one excellent step towards this. Since unit tests are owned and maintained by the developers, the...
Visual Studio 2012 RC – What’s new in Unit Testing
Unit Testing feature in Visual Studio 2012 has been very enthusiastically received by the developer community. Our focus during RC milestone was to respond to feedback we received from Visual Studio 11 Beta. This article talks about some of the new features that we have built during this milestone, many of which were driven by customer feedback. Smart Test Discovery Previously, when a test project was built, Test Explorer would perform an exhaustive search to discover the tests. Now we have implemented a Smart Test Discovery algorithm which significantly improves the time required for updates to appear on t...
Visual Studio Coded UI for Word Add-In v2 Sample Solution has shipped!
We are pleased to announce that we have released the sample solution with support for Visual Studio 2012 RC. Overview This project delivers practical and scenario based sample code and guidance for the Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Add-in, which extends the Coded UI feature support to Microsoft Word documents. Without this Add-in, the Coded UI feature has the following shortcomings: The add-in also provides the following functionalities for Coded UI: To get started, grab the Hand-On Lab, which steps you through building the solution and using it. Download Packages Team Andr...
Creating Team Foundation Server 2012 Lab Management Standard Environments and getting error “Verify that the machines are accessible using the user name and password provided”
Getting ready for Code Camp Seattle i decided to do a demo of Build-Deploy-Test using a non domain joined Windows 8 Release Preview machine as my lab management/hyper V Server creating a Windows 7 Standard Environment as my test environment. Unfortunately everything I did kept getting the error below in the verification step… “Verify that the machines are accessible using the user name and password provided” Turns out you MUST turn off something called “Remote User Access Control” in the Standard Environment machine if you are using a non domain joined computer….if you look closely the the error does give...