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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 ...

Integrate Azure Load Testing into Azure DevOps

March 7, 2023 Mar 7, 2023 03/7/23

April Edwards

Azure Load Testing became generally available in February 2023. It shipped with a lot of new features that were requested by you, the community. You can get started quickly from within the Azure portal, or upload your own custom JMeter script. Azure Load Testing allows you to find bottlenecks within your application stack, load testing your ...

Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Container Pipeline Edition (Part 3)

November 13, 2020 Nov 13, 2020 11/13/20

Jessica Deen

What is a container based pipeline? In short, it's a pipeline where *each* task runs in a container. The benefit of this is I don't need to spend time configuring my build server or build environment with *all* the necessary dependencies and binaries needed for my pipeline.

Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Azure Devops & GitHub Actions (Part 2)

October 30, 2020 Oct 30, 2020 10/30/20

Jessica Deen

Join us for the second post in this blog series, "Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines", where we focus on the pipeline based CI/CD method!

Things to consider when running visual tests in CI/CD pipelines: Getting Started (Part 1)

October 22, 2020 Oct 22, 2020 10/22/20

Jessica Deen

Testing - it's an important part of a developer's day-to-day, but it's also crucial to the operations engineer. In a world where DevOps is more than just a buzzword, where it's become accepted as a mindset shift and culture change, we *all* need to consider running quality tests.

Support for large test attachments now available in Azure Pipelines

August 1, 2019 Aug 1, 2019 08/1/19

Divya Vaishnavi

With this update, Azure Pipelines supports test attachments bigger than 100MB in size, which means you can now upload big files like crash dumps or videos with failed tests, aiding your troubleshooting experience.

Changes to Coded UI Test in Visual Studio 2019

April 12, 2019 Apr 12, 2019 04/12/19

Prachi Bora (MSFT)

We've been recommending for a while that customers use the open source tools Selenium and Appium tools, therefore the Visual Studio 2019 release marks their final deprecation. We recommend using Selenium for testing web-applications and Appium with WinAppDriver for testing desktop (WPF, WinForms, Win32) and UWP apps.

Cloud-based load testing service end of life

February 22, 2019 Feb 22, 2019 02/22/19

Jamie Cool

We plan on closing down the corresponding Azure DevOps cloud-based load testing service on March 31st, 2020.

Test Analytics in Azure Pipelines is now at your fingertips

October 25, 2018 Oct 25, 2018 10/25/18

Divya Vaishnavi

Keeping the pipeline healthy and making it effective is KEY to your DevOps ongoing journey. Some time back we introduced Analytics in Azure Pipeline with Top failing tests report to help you do just that.