DevOps, Git, and Agile updates from the team building Azure DevOps
May 31, 2012May 31, 201205/31/12In a previous post, I have told you how the Configure Features wizard works to upgrade the team projects on your TFS server. It works great. However if you are an administrator of dozens of team projects, you don’t want to walk through the wizard for each team project.
May 31, 2012May 31, 201205/31/12Upgrading is hard. We have heard a lot of comments about the pain that people had to deal with during the upgrade of the team projects from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. For TFS 2012 we make this upgrade much easier for customers with none to limited customizations with a wizard.
May 31, 2012May 31, 201205/31/12JasonZ announced the Visual Studio 2012 RC, which triggered a SIMultaneous-SHIPping event for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers.
// updated 2012/06/15 – v2 CodedUI Add-In has shipped!
I am happy to announce that the Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness RC “Gig” solutions are now available for download from CodePlex as listed below:
Solutions that have shipped:
Practical Kanban Guide Using Kanban in Team Foundation Server
Practical Ruck Guide The Visual Studio ALM Rangers Ruck process.
May 29, 2012May 29, 201205/29/12Hi everyone, since this is my first blog post I’d like to introduce myself first. My name is “Shady Youssef Ibraheem” and I Joined Microsoft in June 2011 working as a software development engineer in test for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server,
May 24, 2012May 24, 201205/24/12Three of the ALM Ranger Dev11 Readiness solutions, which were announced in Welcome to Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness Beta “Wave”. and another supporting solution are dedicated to Visual Studio ALM Test Tooling and are driven by phenomenal teams as shown below.
May 24, 2012May 24, 201205/24/12Coded UI Test team has developed an extension model for enabling custom control identification, record and playback of automation tests using Coded UI Test. This hotfix will be available on top of Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). The experience while writing a new plugin for custom controls has now become much simpler and straightforward.
May 23, 2012May 23, 201205/23/12The Visual Studio ALM Rangers are actively contributing to MSDN Flash Newsletter, MSDN magazine and other publications. Here is a handy list of the latest articles published in MSDN magazine and CodeProject:
Title
Publication Channel
Publication Date
Migrating from an On-Premise Team Foundation Server to Team Foundation Service Preview Using the TFS Integration Tools *NEW*
MSDN Magazine
May 2012
How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11
The Code Project
February 2012
Visual Studio ALM Rangers: Rise of the VM Factory
MSDN Magazine
December 2011
ALM Guidance: Visual Studio ALM Rangers —
May 18, 2012May 18, 201205/18/12Introduction
Visual Studio 11 introduces a standalone IntelliTrace package which can be downloaded and copied to a product server and used to collect IntelliTrace information such as call events, web request, exceptions, etc.
One of the key factors to consider for turning on IntelliTrace collection is the performance cost in terms of CPU,
May 18, 2012May 18, 201205/18/12On User Voice there is a request to be able to query on the current iteration. We have it on our backlog, but it won’t ship it for Dev11.
However there is a workaround, found by Mark Michaelis, that you can use to avoid having to update all your work item queries if the team moves to the next sprint.
May 9, 2012May 9, 201205/9/12While at StarEast I met some really great partners. One that caught my eye was Experitest with their SeeTestTM plugin for Visual Studio. The reason I found them so interesting is most Mobile Testing solutions force you to make a decision do you put interrupts in at the OS level (potentially masking real problems,
