Azure DevOps Blog
DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
Latest posts
Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines
Working with Ken Schwaber Microsoft and Scrum.org has developed a program that helps developers learn Scrum, techniques of software craftsmanship, and all while working in teams to deliver real software on the Visual Studio ALM platform! The Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program recognizes that excellent technical practices and world-class tools to support those practices are critical to being successful with Scrum. Scrum.org and Microsoft are sponsoring these courses in order to bring them to developers in emerging markets, at an attainable cost, to enable developers to honestly say "I am a professi...
How To: Get all test points assigned to you?
Based on my previous post, one question that came up was - How do I, as a tester, know what test points are assigned to me? In Test->Run Tests, you can click on Filter on the left side to do filtering by Tester andor Configurations. Refer the screenshots below.
Application Lifecycle Management SDR on Testing in Hyderabad Feb 21st
As a reader of the ALM Blog you already know, a corner stone of the next version of Visual Studio code named “Visual Studio 11” is delivering the next generation of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools. February 21th two of the principal stakeholders for ALM tooling at Microsoft Brian Harry and Sam Guckenheimer will be visiting the Microsoft ALM Development teams in Hyderabad India. As part of this trip I would love to organize a private software design review of the next generation ALM features we will be releasing in Visual Studio 11. While the specific agenda will be deter...
New MSDN topic: Coded UI Extension for custom controls
The Visual Studio team has released MSDN documentation on Enable Coded UI Testing of Your Custom Controls. Please go through the step-by-step implementation of Coded UI extension points to achieve various levels of support. The document describes how to make a custom ChartControl with CurveLegend child object work with Coded UI.
Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback
In this blog post I’ll go through some approaches you can make use of in your Coded UI Test project to achieve better playback performance. Meanwhile, do check an earlier post here that covers some common scenarios. As I see, there are lot of APIs and settings available that the Coded UI Test user can leverage to hand-code a more optimized test script based on their specific scenarios.First of all, be aware that Coded UI Test allow users to do pure functional UI testing unlike some other automation tools which does programmatic playback. By pure functional UI testing I mean, it replicates the actual u...
Queensland ALM UserGroup Meeting Feb 3rd in Brisbane
Anthony Borton looks like he is hosting another great User group this month with Andrew Harcourt and Software Project Rescue: A Fairy TaleFriday, February 3, 2012 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM (GMT+1000)Brisbane, QueenslandMicrosoft Office - South Stradbroke Island Room Level 28 400 George Street Brisbane, Queensland 4000 Australia Friday, February 3, 2012 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM (GMT+1000) Register Topic: Software Project Rescue: A Fairy TaleThis is a tale of a naïve protagonist, misguided advisors, princesses[1], dragons[2] and knights[3] in shining armour[4].Like most fairy tales, this story h...
Team Foundation Service Preview – Configure a master backlog and sub-teams
One backlog to rule them all…One common practice we’ve seen our customers use is to have a master backlog, which “feeds” several teams. The master backlog is prioritized and maintained, and when it comes time to plan for the next sprint, all the teams gather together and “sign up” for backlog items to work on in the upcoming sprint.That way, they can ensure that all teams are working on the most important items for each sprint. This blog post will tell you how to configure and use a master backlog using the Team Foundation Service Preview.
Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey
Have you used Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools - Coded UI Test or Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) in your project(s)? If so, we would like to hear your experience with these features. Let us know what you think by taking the Coded UI / Microsoft Test Manager Survey.Thanks!Shubhra Maji – Visual Studio Test Tools Program Manager
FAQ: What is the difference between “Assigned To” and “Tester” in MTM?
FAQ: In Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), what is the difference between the “Assigned To” field of the Test Case work item and the “Tester” field in MTM. It seems these to fields are stored independently. So if I assign someone test cases through MTM then this is not translated into the “Assigned To” on the WIT.A: The “Assigned To” is a field on the test case work item. The “Tester” is a field on the Test Point artifact. A Test Point is a Test Case * Test Configuration. For example, for a given Test Case, you might want to test it on...