November 2012 | Azure DevOps Blog

ALM Rangers ship update #1 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in

Willy-P. SchaubNovember 30, 2012Nov 30, 201211/30/12

We are pleased to announce that we have released the first update to version (1.0.12.0622) of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in, adding support for Word 2010 64-bit.
See Word4TFS10-x64misi and Rangers_vsarword4tfs_1.0.12.0622_Everything.zip files in the latest
The add-in allows you to import work items from a Team Foundation Server Team Project and generate professional-looking Word document from TFS Work items.

Code Coverage in Microsoft Test Manager in Visual Studio Update 1

Charles SterlingNovember 28, 2012Nov 28, 201211/28/12

Another in the ALM MVP Blog series. This article was written by Mike Douglas one of our most active ALM Rangers contributing to a bunch of the ALM Ranger projects!
Make sure and check out Mikes article: Continuous Feedback using Storyboarding,

Integrating existing testing systems with Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio

Charles SterlingNovember 27, 2012Nov 27, 201211/27/12

I have been working with different partners in the testing space for the last couple of months and a frequently asked question is:

“Where do we start integrating our test tools with the Microsoft application life cycle platform?”

And the answer is relatively straight simple

“You need to integrate yourself into the development workflow…we use Team Foundation Server for that ALM workflow engine”

Unfortunately simple doesn’t always mean comprehensible…so I typically go on to say:

“…So that you can your tests run as part of the build process –and let the development team know if the tests passed/failed”

…At this point the light comes on and the question usually becomes:

“how do I do that?”

A generalized pattern for a tool targeting a manual test team might be:

File bugs from your IDE into TFS – if you can extend the existing IDE
Create Test Cases in TFS
Create a Tests type in Visual Studio that knows how to execute your existing tests
Set the newly created Visual Studio Tests to be executed during the automation testing

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 now available

Charles SterlingNovember 26, 2012Nov 26, 201211/26/12

As Soma mentioned in his blog the Visual Studio Updates are a new mechanism we are using to provide ongoing value throughout the year to our Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server customers. These updates will provide features to support the latest software trends in the market,

Introducing SharePoint Emulators

Joshua Weber-MSFTNovember 26, 2012Nov 26, 201211/26/12

The Visual Studio team is pleased to announce availability of Visual Studio 2012 SharePoint Emulators. Unit testing for SharePoint code is difficult. Ideally you would like to isolate code under test from the surrounding SharePoint framework. Isolation frameworks, such as Microsoft Fakes,

Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guidance

ImporterNovember 22, 2012Nov 22, 201211/22/12

Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information.

Issue
It is not simple to implement a consistent branching model,

Part 2–Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer

ImporterNovember 20, 2012Nov 20, 201211/20/12

As promised one of the ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, has delivered Part 2 of his Unit Test Series: “Using Traits with different test frameworks in the Unit Test Explorer”.
From the traffic and comments on his first post these are clearly very appreciated articles!

Retrying failed playback actions with Coded UI

Srishti [MSFT]November 20, 2012Nov 20, 201211/20/12

This blog assumes that you have basic understanding of Coded UI and are familiar with the code generated from a recording on Winforms, WPF or Web applications.
A lot of times, while running a UI test, our test runs into an unexpected pagestate,

New Visual Source Safe Upgrade Tool is Available!

Charles SterlingNovember 9, 2012Nov 9, 201211/9/12

In the last month I have seen multiple requests for a new Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool – and here it is!
The Visual Source Safe Upgrade tool provides a Wizard Based UI for upgrading Visual Source Safe repositories to Team Foundation Server 2012,

How to manage unit tests in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 : Part 1–Using Traits in the Unit Test Explorer

ImporterNovember 9, 2012Nov 9, 201211/9/12

As a result of writing the post: Edit Test Case properties directly from the test runner of Microsoft Test Manager I asked one the ALM MVPs, Terje Sandstrom, to also look at one of the most requested Visual Studio Update 1 features – but an area I didn’t have a post on yet: Grouping in the new Unit Test Explorer.

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