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Mar 21 Developer Breakfast in Sydney, New South Wales: Getting the Most out of TFS
When I was based in Australia the crew down at Readify always put on a good show. I see March 21st they have a breakfast on Getting the Most out of TFSREGISTER NOWSession Abstract: The ability to deliver high quality applications that add value to business is dependent on the Application Lifecycle Management implemented. Agile/Scrum provide the processes to deliver your applications and Team Foundation Server provides the tooling to support and communicate your processes. This session will look into the features provided by TFS that will enhance the development processes by giving the required governa...
Changing the default number of tasks displayed on the taskboard
Whether you've installed the beta or signed up for the hosted service, you've probably seen the new taskboard feature, one of the new planning and tracking tools. Hopefully you've started playing with all these tools, adding items to your backlog, creating tasks, and moving tasks from one state to another. Maybe you've shown your teammates these features, too, and they've started creating tasks of their own. That's certainly how it happened on my team. Before I knew it, everyone started creating tasks to track their work in our current sprint, just to test the waters. Which was great! In fact it was fantastic to ...
Test Case Migrator Plus V1.2 released
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We have completed the release of the Test Case Migrator Plus (V1.2 RTM) on CodePlex.What's new for the V1.2 RTM version
What’s new for MSTest unit tests in Visual Studio 11 Beta
In an earlier post we detailed the fresh approach we have taken with unit testing in Visual Studio 11. You can now pick and choose the test framework of your choice and use it from within the Visual Studio experience in a fully integrated manner. While we have done a lot of work on the new experience and a new extensible platform, we have also invested in the built-in MSTest framework for unit-testing. In this post, I wanted to highlight the investments we have done in MSTest. Performance Performance is a central theme across Visual Studio 11 and developer unit testing scenarios with MSTest have also received a...
The Code Index SDK
This blog post was updated in Dec 2016 to explain what changed with Visual Studio 2017. More in: The visual Studio Modeling SDK is part of Visual Studio 2017 Introduction In Visual Studio 11 Ultimate, the experience around the architecture diagrams has improved a lot, with respect to Visual Studio 2010. In particular, performance and scalability are much better than they used to be, as we mentioned already. It is also possible to create dependency diagrams using the solution explorer, and then ask questions from the representations of the code elements in the diagram. At the heart of these improvements, is the...
ALM Quick Reference Guide BETA has shipped!
We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, which delivers quick references which started in 2009 with a request from Steven van Niekerk (Technical Lead / Architect, South-Africa) initiated this project with his question “Can you tell me about TFS and VSTS in 5 minutes?” The previous version was downloaded more than 35 thousand times and was even localised for the Spanish community, by Francisco Fagas. We trust that this new version, focused on Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 11 will be the start of a new era of excitement ...
Using Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Beta Feedback Client tool with Windows 8 Metro Style applications
For Windows 8 Metro style applications the Visual Studio 11 Test Tools ( Visual Studio 11 Beta Microsoft Test Manager and the Microsoft Feedback Client) are expected to be connected via a remote session using Remote Desktop Connection (MSTSC.exe) or using the simulator integrated into Visual Studio 11 Beta. To the right is an image of starting a Windows 8 Metro application in the Visual Studio 11 Beta Simulator. Below is a screen shot of the Visual Studio 11 Beta Feedback client with two screen shots of two different Windows 8 Metro style applications – one being run in the simulator and the o...
March 12th TFSPreview.com Update
Today, we pushed a small update to the hosted Team Foundation Service, and I wanted to share some insight into our update cadence and what’s new in this particular release. We’re going to be blogging about all of our interesting updates so that you can have an idea about what’s new and pertinent to your use. As you may know, we’ve been working to accelerate our release cadence for the hosted service, so that we can deliver new value to customers earlier, and so that changes to the product are more evolutionary than revolutionary. We’re currently set up to publish updates every Monday. Since our team works on 3 w...
Getting Started with Exploratory Testing
How many times have you been in a situation when you found a bug while doing some ad hoc testing but couldn’t report it because you couldn’t reproduce it again. Or you filed a bug during a bug bash, it was fixed but it reappeared in the software because there was no way you could have remembered to test it again. If you are a software tester, I am sure you would have been in many such situations. But no more worries, Exploratory testing with Microsoft Test Manager is here to solve all such problems. Exploratory testing, by definition is simultaneous test execution and test design. And Micros...