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Azure DevOps’ First Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) Now Available

November 16, 2023 Nov 16, 2023 11/16/23
Benibo Ajumogobia
I am thrilled to announce that we have now published, for the first time, a Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) specific to Azure DevOps. The Consensus Assessment Initiative Questionnaire (CAIQ) is a tool developed by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). It serves as a standard set of questions aimed at helping potential cloud ...

The evolution of quality assurance and how Azure Test Plans is driving the future of manual testing

June 8, 2023 Jun 8, 2023 06/8/23
Ravi Kumar
The Deming Prize from Japan is the highest honour in Total Quality Management in the world. Japanese products are known for their superior quality, but it wasn’t always the case. In the 1950s fresh out of defeat in the World War 2, Japan was desperately trying to shift manufacturing from military to civilian products for trade. However the ...

Improved Flaky Test Management in Azure Pipelines

May 26, 2023 May 26, 2023 05/26/23
Ravi Kumar
In software development, testing is an integral part of the development process. Tests are used to verify that software behaves as expected, and they ensure that changes made to the code do not break existing functionality. However, there is a problem that often arises when running automated tests: Flaky tests. Flaky tests are tests that ...

Azure DevOps Achieves ISO 26262 ASIL D level of Certification

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23
Jorge Minana
We are pleased to announce that Azure DevOps has successfully passed the ISO 26262 ASIL D certification, the highest level of Functional Safety management process, by TÜV SUD, an international independent third-party testing and certification company. This certification demonstrates Microsoft's commitment to providing our Automotive customers...

Azure DevOps Roadmap update

October 20, 2022 Oct 20, 2022 10/20/22
Gloridel Morales
Last week we made significant updates to our product roadmap. We published the latest features for 2022, updated the list of features for 2023, and included an initiatives section that provides details about the product strategy and long-term investments. (image) In addition to including a new list of key features and initiatives, we also ...

Opt-in to Auditing on Azure DevOps

April 20, 2022 Apr 20, 2022 04/20/22
Angel Wong
Auditing has now been made an opt-in feature on Azure DevOps and will only be available to organizations that are connected to Azure Active Directory. While Auditing is still in public preview at the moment, the ability to enable and disable Auditing in your organizations is now available. You should see these changes in your settings within ...