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ALM Summit in Redmond
Last week at the ALM Summit I ran the Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-On-Labs with a bunch of the MVPs from Imaginet . In my opinion, this conference represents one of the best showcases of Microsoft ALM tools in the wild and it was really satisfying to see so many development teams have moved beyond awareness of agile methodology to successful adoption and implementations. In general the questions changed their tone from last year: “We are considering trying the following…” to “In our last sprint we ran into the following impediment…” ...
Troubleshooting Record and Playback issues in Coded UI Test
We have been receiving numerous queries related to record and playback in Coded UI Test. In most of the scenarios, some additional information is sought after to debug and nail the issue. Tapas Sahoo has enumerated some basic validations that you (as a Coded UI Test user) can attempt to troubleshoot the problem. He also describes a few workarounds that you can try out for some common failure scenarios. The full post is available here.
Using Lab Manager 2010 with Windows Azure Web Seminar Nov 1st
Our enterprise team with sticky minds has put together a Webcast on Load Testing in the Cloud. Abstract:With the introduction of Visual Studio 2010 and Windows Azure we now have the ability to easily create load testing scenarios on the cloud. Using the infrastructure of Windows Azure can provide a cost effective way to performance test your application. In this session we'll explore: To registerhttps://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=342374&sessionid=1&key=850C0F81627F8CD0EA374B0CB176F2A6&sourcepage=register
Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party Windows Forms controls–How to?
Here is how one can add FULL Coded UI Test support for a 3rd party control based on Windows Forms technology. Implementation Method – Accessibility Accessibility means having equal access to web-based information and services regardless of physical or developmental abilities or impairments. Once implemented, it helps developers make their programs more compatible with accessibility aids (help users with impairment to use programs more effectively). Microsoft has developed two accessibility standards - Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA) and Microsoft UI Automation (UIA) MSAA is designed to help Assistive Te...
Coded UI Test Extension for 3rd party controls – the basics explained
Having developed a 3rd party control, wonder what it takes to go from NO support to FULL support for Coded UI Test? How to make the UI elements testable by Coded UI Test – to be able to create automated tests from manual recording, record user actions, generate code from user actions, add custom code to UI Tests and finally run those coded UI Tests? Well it could be accomplished by step-by-step implementation with each step allowing access to rich features of Coded UI Test as shown below. All of this can be accomplished by leveraging the extension points of Coded UI Test framework. Fig 1: Shows four steps nee...
Agile Scrum and Kanban presentation by David Starr Nov 3rd at ODNC and free bonus sessions at DevTeach
ALM Events in Redmond by Northwest Cadence
Martin Hinshelwood and Steve Borg as still as busy as ever! Here are their next two months set of free and near events!LIVE West Region EventsFREE 1-day seminars LIVE Coffee Talk Events: [same information as yesterday’s email]1-hour live events hosted at the Microsoft Store in Bellevue.Space is limited, so please be sure to register!Join Northwest Cadence (at the Microsoft Store in Bellevue!) for fresh brewed coffee, a variety of specialty coffee cakes, and some morning discussions that are sure to wake you up and get your day off to a great start!Thursday, October 27| Testers Get Professional Regis...
IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server Integration Tools – Training and Exploration Sandbox
For those that have explored the Getting Started IBM CC-CQTFS Migration 101 Basic Training mentioned in the Getting Started with IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server (TFS) Migrations post, the evaluation and training sandbox environment is nothing new. We are working together with TeamDevCentral who are hosting and managing the sandbox environment for us. The intention is to offer an easy to use and near-zero-admin exploration, training and testing environment for IBM Rational ClearCase and/or IBM Rational ClearQuest migrations to Team Foundation Server., based on the latest supported Team Foundation Server I...
How to Build VB6 Apps with TFS Team Build 2010
In the last week I have seen three requests for people wanting to know how to build Visual Basic 6 Applications with Team Foundation Server. Turns out one of my ALM MVPs, Richard Banks, has written a great blog post on exactly this topic. In his post he walks you through modifying the build workflow, replacing the “Run MSBuild for Project” activity with one that calls VB6.exe. This post can be seen on Richards blog at: http://www.richard-banks.org/2010/08/how-to-build-vb6-apps-with-tfs-team.html Richard Banks has developed software for the last 20 years for ...