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Very nice video about what’s new in Visual Studio 11 Dependency Graphs
After Esther who explained how to Visualize Code with Visual Studio 11 Beta last week, Chris blogged this week-end about What's new in Visual Studio 11 Dependency Graph Features. He has recorded a great video (WMV 17mb, MP4 14mb), going through the main features: A must watch!
Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests–Released to Codeplex
The purpose of Code First API Library, Scaffolding & Guidance for Coded UI Tests is to help you write more maintainable Coded UI tests for your web apps. When building Web UI Tests the way that's proposed here - you aren't going to be recording test scripts nor building UI Maps. Instead, you'll be writing Page Objects that are interacting with the elements on the page. CodedUI CodeFirst contains three major parts which can be used individually or together. When you're beginning a new project you'll probably use all these parts while in an existing project you might just pick a part that's applicable f...
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
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...
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...