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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 test scripts nor building UI Maps. Instead, you'll be writing Page Objects that are interacting...

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 style apps available in Windows Consumer Preview.* ** With Dev11 Beta, now available at this...

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).  I plan to publish data like this every 6 months.  Overall, we are continuing to have consistent grow...

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 have made a lot of changes to testing in Visual Studio. These changes are pretty drastic in som...

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 template customization. For more information on the ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness “...

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 Stuio ALM testing includes the following:Test project compatibility and upgrada...

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 be a daunting exercise. For TFS11 there are also a couple of features that need changes to the metad...

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 about how changes might affect it? Good news! In Visual Studio 11 Beta, you can visualize...

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 Coded UI feature support to Microsoft Word documents. Without this Add-in, the Coded UI featur...

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 & 10 New feature support Coded UI Tests added support for a host of new features which are new in...