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Visual Studio 11 Beta: Manual Testing of Windows Metro Style Apps
NOTE: This article assumes that you are familiar with Microsoft Test Manager. See this *MSDN article for a full description of Manual Testing features available with Visual Studio 11. This article focuses on the features that are specific to Windows Metro style apps available in Windows Consumer Preview.* ** With Dev11 Beta, now available at this download location, you’ll find that Microsoft Test Manager has been enhanced to enable testing of Windows Metro style apps on a device. At this point in Dev11 development, you’ll see that the HTML/JavaScript/CSS scenarios work pretty well; there are some known issues i...
Microsoft Internal Usage of TFS: July – December 2011
Summary We have heard many customers ask about the internal usage of TFS across Microsoft. Microsoft IT has an offering of TFS and I have included some data and trends of this IT offering throughout the second half of 2011 (July – December 2011). I plan to publish data like this every 6 months. Overall, we are continuing to have consistent growth in the TFS services hosted by Microsoft IT. In November and December, one of our biggest instances, MSIT, was split into three different instances. During this exercise, MSIT did a big cleanup of old data on TFS. Due to this cleanup, we see some drop in the numb...
What’s New in Visual Studio 11 Beta Unit Testing
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For those of you who haven’t been following the changes to unit testing that we first previewed back at the //BUILD/ conference, and for those you who did but want to know what has changed, this post is going to take you through the whole thing. We have made a lot of changes to testing in Visual Studio. These changes are pretty drastic in some cases, but were driven by years of customer feedback and a clarification of our focus and vision. Customer Feedback Ever since we first shipped unit testing back in Visual Studio Team System we’ve been given praise and criticism for what it was. It was too slo...
Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization 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 practical guidance and extensive PowerShell and Custom Control supporting samples for Team Foundation Server Process template customization. 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 exciting project, please visit Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization Guide or click the images below. Please send candid feedback We can’t wait to hear from you, and l...
Visual Studio 11 Beta Testing Documentation
The Visual Studio 11 Beta is released and along with it comes some updated testing documentation. The updated content can be found in the MSDN library within the Visual Studio 11 Beta documentation. The updated functionality and content specific to Visual Stuio ALM testing includes the following:Test project compatibility and upgradability with Visual Studio 2010Test projects that you created in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 that contain unit tests, coded UI tests, Web performance or load tests can be opened in Visual Studio 11 Beta. Therefore, your team can continue to use Visual Studio 2010 SP1 or Visua...
Update Your Agile Team Project to Support Additional Functionality After You Upgrade from TFS 2010 to TFS11 Beta
Summary When a new version of TFS comes out, there are new features. Some of those features are backed by metadata such as work item types and work item categories. If you had to upgrade your TFS 2008 team project to TFS 2010 you know that this can be a daunting exercise. For TFS11 there are also a couple of features that need changes to the metadata. There is metadata that is required for a feature to get it working. To add the required metadata for all new TFS11 features, follow steps in the MSDN article Updating an Upgraded Team Project to Access New Features. Besides the required metadata, there is also...
Visualize Code with Visual Studio 11 Beta
Remember the last time you worked with unfamiliar code? It can seem like it takes forever to understand how to change it and even longer to see the potential impact. What if you had a picture that shows how the code is organized and gives you more information about how changes might affect it? Good news! In Visual Studio 11 Beta, you can visualize your code and understand its relationships. You can create, read, and edit dependency graphs faster and easier. Here's an example: Note: You can create graphs with Visual Studio 11 Ultimate. You can read and edit graphs with Visual Studio 11 Premium and Professional...
Visual Studio Coded UI for Word Add-In Sample Solution has shipped!
We are pleased to announce that we have released the sample solution, which many have been waiting for 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. Find more information here: http://vsarcodeduiword.code...
Visual Studio 11 Beta – What is new in Coded UI Tests?
With Visual Studio 11 Beta, now available at this download location, you will see a number of enhancements to Coded UI Tests. This blog highlights the top features and points you to the MSDN articles which describe each feature in detail. IE 9 & 10 New feature support Coded UI Tests added support for a host of new features which are new in Internet Explorer 9 & 10. The features are described in detail in the following MSDN articles. · Support for HTML5 in Internet Explorer 9 and Internet Explorer 10 · Support for Windows Internet Explorer 10 Spell Checking · Support for 64-bit Windows I...