July 2017 | Azure DevOps Blog

Human readable tests and build chaining in July’s VSTS extension round-up

Joe BourneJuly 31, 2017Jul 31, 201707/31/17

Our community of publishers continues to grow and the contributions they’re making are great. This month I’ve got an extension for chaining build definitions together, and another that was written because people were searching for it in the Marketplace.

SpecFlow+LivingDoc
See it in the Marketplace here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=techtalk.techtalk-specflow-plus
Living documentation is the term used to describe system documentation that is up-to-date and easily understood.

Improved user settings in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

Whitney JenkinsJuly 26, 2017Jul 26, 201707/26/17

We’re excited to announce some upcoming changes that will make it easier to update your user settings. Here is a preview of what’s coming in Q4 2017.
Coming Q4 2017

An update user interface (UI) to support improved navigation
Support for continuous saving without exiting user settings
Oauth authorization management within your profile

Updated user interface

Velocity Widget available for the VSTS Analytics Extension

Gregg BoerJuly 25, 2017Jul 25, 201707/25/17

The Velocity Widget is now available for those who’ve installed the Analytics Extension on their Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) accounts.

The Velocity Widget provides functionality not available in the Velocity Chart displayed on the Backlog view, such as:

Show velocity for any team,

Extending MSTest V2

Pratap LakshmanJuly 18, 2017Jul 18, 201707/18/17

APIs are assets. As developers we learn them, write to them, and – if the API are extensible – we grow them. An extensible API removes barriers to introducing new abstractions closer to our own domains. Once such abstractions are in place,

Improved package support in Team Build

Alex MullansJuly 18, 2017Jul 18, 201707/18/17

We know that packages are a key way to bring in dependencies and to share your work with your users, and we know many of you are using private package sources (like Package Management, Artifactory, MyGet, and others) to develop packages inside your organization.

The fastest path to a new VSTS extension

Will SmytheJuly 17, 2017Jul 17, 201707/17/17

Over the last few years we have introduced a number of ways to extend and integrate with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS). For example, client libraries for .NET (which work with both .NET Framework and .NET Core apps) and for Node.js and an extensibility model that allows extension of our web experience.

Improved alternate authentication experience for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

Justin MarksJuly 14, 2017Jul 14, 201707/14/17

Recently, we’ve heard feedback from customers that developers have a poor experience creating and managing their alternate authentication credentials and that administrators moving from TFS to the cloud aren’t provided the policies they need to enforce how alternate authentication is used by their end users.

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July 2017 | Azure DevOps Blog

Human readable tests and build chaining in July’s VSTS extension round-up

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.28

Improved user settings in Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

Velocity Widget available for the VSTS Analytics Extension

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.21

Extending MSTest V2

Improved package support in Team Build

The fastest path to a new VSTS extension

Top stories from the VSTS community – 2017.07.14

Improved alternate authentication experience for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)

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