Some of you may have faced the problem of test attachments growing too fast in TFS with Microsoft Test Manager (MTM).  As you know, the test attachments can be cleaned using Test Attachment Cleaner tool which is part of TFS Power Tools .  However...

When I was based in Australia the crew down at Readify always put on a good show. I see March 21st they have a breakfast on Getting the Most out of TFS REGISTER NOW Session Abstract: The ability to deliver high quality applications that add value to business...

Whether you've installed the beta or signed up for the hosted service, you've probably seen the new taskboard feature , one of the new planning and tracking tools. Hopefully you've started playing with all these tools, adding items to your backlog, creating...

We have completed the release of the Test Case Migrator Plus (V1.2 RTM) on CodePlex. What's new for the V1.2 RTM version Support for connecting to Hosted Team Foundation Server Preview . Support for connecting to Team Foundation Server 11 Beta . Fix to...

In an earlier post we detailed the fresh approach we have taken with unit testing in Visual Studio 11. You can now pick and choose the test framework of your choice and use it from within the Visual Studio experience in a fully integrated manner. While...

Introduction In Visual Studio 11 Ultimate, the experience around the architecture diagrams has improved a lot, with respect to Visual Studio 2010. In particular, performance and scalability are much better than they used to be, as we mentioned already...

We are pleased to announce that we have released another one of the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” projects, which delivers quick references which started in 2009 with a request from Steven van Niekerk (Technical Lead / Architect, South...

For Windows 8 Metro style applications the Visual Studio 11 Test Tools ( Visual Studio 11 Beta Microsoft Test Manager and the Microsoft Feedback Client ) are expected to be connected via a remote session using Remote Desktop Connection (MSTSC.exe) or...

Today, we pushed a small update to the hosted Team Foundation Service, and I wanted to share some insight into our update cadence and what’s new in this particular release. We’re going to be blogging about all of our interesting updates so...

How many times have you been in a situation when you found a bug while doing some ad hoc testing but couldn’t report it because you couldn’t reproduce it again. Or you filed a bug during a bug bash, it was fixed but it reappeared in the software...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

Summary When a new version of TFS comes out, there are new features. Some of those features are backed by metadata such as work item types and work item categories. If you had to upgrade your TFS 2008 team project to TFS 2010 you know that this can...

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...

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...

With Visual Studio 11 Beta, now available at this download location , you will see a number of enhancements to Coded UI Tests. This blog highlights the top features and points you to the MSDN articles which describe each feature in detail. IE 9...

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...

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...

JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 11 Beta, which triggered a SIM ultaneous- SHIP ping 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...

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...