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Handling playback failures in Coded UI Test due to stale UI controls
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There have been multiple instances of Coded UI Test customers reporting failure in the performing action on a control within a popup window such as a dialog box or a context menu. The typical symptom will be an error thrown something like –QTAgent32.exe, AL: Playback Error: Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.UITest.Extension.FailedToPerformActionOnBlockedControlException:Window '' is blocking the control XYZ. Please move the window '' or make the control XYZ visible and retry the action. Additional Details:TechnologyName: 'MSAA'Name: 'XYZ'ControlType: 'MenuItem' ---> System.Runtime.I...
Visual Studio 11 Beta – Unit Testing Plugins List
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One of the things I’m really proud of in the new Visual Studio 11 developer experience is the investment we made in developer and unit testing. We first started talking about this back at the //BUILD/ conference, and since then have spent a lot of time working with community partners to get them ready for the Beta release today.I’m very happy, therefore, to be able to highlight the frameworks & test runners that have shipped support for VS11 Beta. (More to come, see below.)(Editors Note: Table below updated 2/11/2014) I will be maintaining this list as more come online, so please stay tuned. ...
Welcome to Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta “Wave”
JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 11 Beta, which triggered a SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers. Updated: 2012-04-13. Changes marked with //date – change token. I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta “Gig” solutions are now available for download from CodePlex: Solutions The following solutions will be available for Beta download in the near future: The following solutions have been cancelled or merged with other solutions: The Team None of this would have been possible without a dream team, made up of contrib...
What’s new for Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio 11 Beta
After the release of Visual studio 2010, Microsoft Test Manager gained a lot of popularity and we heard a whole lot of feedback about the tool, both good and bad. We consolidated it and decided to fix the top items causing dissatisfaction to the MTM users, the top 3 being performance issues in MTM, multiline support for test steps and test data reduction. Below are the details of these and other improvements we did in Microsoft Test Manager in the Visual Studio 11 Beta release. Significant performance gains in MTM Improving the performance was a major ask from the Test Manager users and we have done a l...
Code sample for using TFS events
The guys behind the All-In-One Code Framework published a sample on using TFS events earlier this month. I'm not sure, but it may have been thier first sample covering TFS. They have more on their backlog. You can suggest sample ideas, and vote on other suggestions, too. To vote on suggestions, search for TFS in the sample request service.
Enabling Feedback Requests for Team Foundation Server
You may have noticed that your Team Foundation Server Web Web Access doesn’t give you the ability to “Request Feedback” by default -like the videos/demos we showed at the /BUILD conference…more than likely this is due to the fact you have not enabled email alerts in Team Foundation Server. To to do this….
Team Foundation Tour kicking off in Montreal 14 with Mario Cardinal
If you live in Canada do not miss the Team Foundation Tour. The Team Foundation Tour is a training specifically designed by Microsoft ALM MVP Mario Cardinal to address the needs of organizations facing challenges adopting Scrum with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. According to the city where the training takes place it will be in English or French. Next course is in Montreal, March 14-15. To learn moreAbout the instructorMario Cardinal is an independent consultant specializing in software architecture. He love to extract the essence of a complicated situation, sort out the co...
Special Discount for Scrum.ORG course in China by Adam Cogan
I am sitting next to Adam in the Scrum.ORG annual meeting and he mentioned giving attendees a $500 discount for his Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) course .Taught by Adam Cogan March 20-22, 2012 in Bejing, ChinaAttending this course you will: Register before March 1 and get the early bird rate of USD 999, a discount of USD 500 off the regular price. Note: Discount only offered in China. To register for this class in ChinaOther Scrum.ORG classes you might be interested in:
Team Foundation Service Preview–Updated videos are available
Way back in September of 2011, Martin Woodward published a blog post that referenced a series of Channel 9 videos that were introductions to the TFS Preview.Those videos were recorded based on the version delivered at the BUILD conference. Just wanted to let everyone know that all of those videos have been re-recorded with the latest bits. The videos were updated in place, so all existing links still work.You can go to Martin’s blog post to for more detail on these videos, but for convenience they are listed below: Enjoy!