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May 4th QLD Usergroup: Get your Kanban on!
Apr 30, 2012
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May 4th QLD Usergroup: Get your Kanban on!

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

Anthony Borton is so good he can run a user group in Australia while in Redmond. Okay turns out he isn’t that good-but he does have really good people helping him and this month, David Cook, is stepping up to the plate to deliver an updated version of a talk he very successfully delivered at the Agile NZ Conference recently. David's talk was rated one of the top three sessions of the conference so make sure you don't miss it. You'll love the new Microsoft Kanban Template for TFS2010 & TFS"11" Beta. · QLD ALM Users Group meeting Friday 4th May This Friday's Meeting (4th May) Microsoft Office - South St...

Visual Studio 11 Beta–Test Agent needs to be installed on Test Controller box for Load Test
Apr 28, 2012
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Visual Studio 11 Beta–Test Agent needs to be installed on Test Controller box for Load Test

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 With Visual Studio 11 Beta, you will come across below issue while doing remote Load Test run (i.e. run using Test Controller and Test Agent. Please check here):Load Test run won’t be able to start successfully and will get aborted with this error:...View complete post...Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog. Permalink

Anthony Borton and ALM Training releases two new Visual Studio 11 courses
Apr 27, 2012
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Anthony Borton and ALM Training releases two new Visual Studio 11 courses

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

Anthony Borton has been working around the clock and has updated two of the ALM Training courses for our Microsoft Visual Studio “11” Beta release. In addition to updated modules, these courses include brand knew modules focusing on the new features and capabilities in this version. Project Management with Visual Studio 11 Testing and Quality Enablement with Visual Studio 11 These courses are available from ALM Training in all markets/geographies as onsite courses. Public dates have already been announced for Australia, US, UK and New Zealand dates to be announced soon. Click your regi...

Visual Studio 11 Beta: Test Controller Goes 64 Bit!!
Apr 26, 2012
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Visual Studio 11 Beta: Test Controller Goes 64 Bit!!

RubelS_MSFT
RubelS_MSFT

Visual Studio 2010 supported 64 bit Test Agent which used to allow us to do 64bit test runs as explained here. But Test Controller was capable of running in 32 bit mode only. As a 32 bit process, it was limited to 2GB of memory. This causes scale issues sometimes as QTController process starts throwing Out of Memory exceptions as it approaches 2GB limit. This eventually causes abort of Load Test run....View complete post...Note: Cross posted from Rubel's Blog. Permalink

Requirements Collaboration-TFS & inteGREAT Webcast April 25th 1:00PM EDT
Apr 24, 2012
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Requirements Collaboration-TFS & inteGREAT Webcast April 25th 1:00PM EDT

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

Siddharth and Asif will be doing a Webinar on how the inteGREAT RLM software extends the capabilities of Microsoft’s TFS & Office platforms; combined providing a comprehensive, simple to use, highly scalable, requirements solution for all project stakeholders.Session Details: Title: Requirements Collaboration-TFS & inteGREATSiddharth Bhatia Microsoft Visual Studio Principal Program Manager LeadAsif Sharif Chief Technologist – eDev TechnologiesDuring this webinar we will explain and demonstrate how the inteGREAT RLM software extends the capabilities of Microsoft’s TFS & Office ...

Announcing Keyword-Driving Testing Integration from LogiGear
Apr 19, 2012
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Announcing Keyword-Driving Testing Integration from LogiGear

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

April 18th LogiGear gave the first look at their eagerly sought product, TestArchitect™ for Visual Studio®.  Tightly integrated with Visual Studio 11, LogiGear’s flagship product TestArchitect empowers users to quickly and effortlessly create as well as maintain very large volume of test cases within Microsoft Visual Studio by combining Action Based Testing™, a proven action-keyword method for test automation, with Coded UI tests.  With minimum scripting requirements and a library of common actions it allows the user to automate more tests with less effort, with unparalleled scalability.   Hun...

Test Scribe for MTM 11 Beta is out
Apr 16, 2012
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Test Scribe for MTM 11 Beta is out

Gautam Goenka [MSFT]
Gautam Goenka [MSFT]

 The Test Scribe Power Tool, which is used to generate documentation for test plan and test run for Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) has been updated for MTM 11 Beta.  The updated version is here.  The MTM 2010 version continues to be here.

Acceptance Testing UI using Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft Test Manager and Fit style tables
Apr 13, 2012
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Acceptance Testing UI using Visual Studio 2010 Microsoft Test Manager and Fit style tables

Charles Sterling
Charles Sterling

A while back I was sitting in a class by Rod Claar and he introduced the concept of using Fit tables for improving collaboration in software development. The way Fit tables do this is by enabling stakeholders and business analysts to enter expected input and the proper output in a tool they are comfortable with – like excel. A simple example might look like the following table: The developer can then run through these tables using test automation to verify the application is doing what is expected.  Data bound coded UI tests makes doing a piece of cake with Visual Studio 2010.  **So how do you create a dat...

Friday 13th High Noon – An early BETA of the Branching Guide is released
Apr 13, 2012
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Friday 13th High Noon – An early BETA of the Branching Guide is released

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We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, delivering practical guidance focused on branching and merging. For more information on the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” please refer to here or click the image above. For more information on this project, please visit Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching Guide. Also please note that we are testing the new download package structure and filenames, which have evolved from recent ALM Ranger surveys and feedback from the community. **Please send candid feedback ...