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Feb 9, 2012
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Feb. 20112 MN ALM User Group Meeting: Preview of VS 11 Test Tool Enhancements

Charles Sterling

Tim Star, one of the ALM MVP  will be presenting at the Feb. 20112 MN ALM User Group Meeting….Looks like a fun show!Preview of Dev 11 Test Tool Enhancements Feb 15, 2012 5:00-6:30pm Intertech's New Offices! 1575 Thomas Center Dr Eagan, MN 55122Click to Attend DescriptionIf the much anticipated Dev 11 beta ...

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Feb 8, 2012
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Test View Issue: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame

Charles Sterling

In Visual Studio 2010 Under certain circumstances the you may encounter problems opening the Test View window. (see image below) Luckily it is easy to fix.  To make it go away, you need to close/reopen Visual Studio. If you don’t want this ever happening again, do the following: 1. Go to the Tools main menu -> Options… | Test Tool...

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Feb 8, 2012
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Professional Scrum.ORG courses being offered in China, India and Philippines

Charles Sterling

  Working with Ken Schwaber  Microsoft and Scrum.org has developed a program that helps developers learn Scrum, techniques of software craftsmanship, and all while working in teams to deliver real software on the Visual Studio ALM platform! The Professional Scrum Developer (PSD) program recognizes that excellent technical practices and world-cl...

DevOpsAgile
Feb 2, 2012
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How To: Get all test points assigned to you?

Gautam Goenka [MSFT]

Based on my previous post, one question that came up was - How do I, as a tester, know what test points are assigned to me? In Test->Run Tests, you can click on Filter on the left side to do filtering by Tester andor Configurations.  Refer the screenshots below.  

DevOpsTest
Feb 1, 2012
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Application Lifecycle Management SDR on Testing in Hyderabad Feb 21st

Charles Sterling

As a reader of the ALM Blog you already know, a corner stone of the next version of Visual Studio code named “Visual Studio 11” is delivering the next generation of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.  February 21th two of the principal stakeholders for ALM tooling at Microsoft Brian Harry and Sam Guckenheimer will be vis...

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Feb 1, 2012
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New MSDN topic: Coded UI Extension for custom controls

Shubhra Maji MSFT

The Visual Studio team has released MSDN documentation on Enable Coded UI Testing of Your Custom Controls. Please go through the step-by-step implementation of Coded UI extension points to achieve various levels of support. The document describes how to make a custom ChartControl with CurveLegend child object work with Coded UI....

DevOpsCommunityTest
Jan 31, 2012
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Guidelines on improving performance of Coded UI Test playback

Tapas Sahoo [MSFT]

In this blog post I’ll go through some approaches you can make use of in your Coded UI Test project to achieve better playback performance. Meanwhile, do check an earlier post here that covers some common scenarios.  As I see, there are lot of APIs and settings available that the Coded UI Test user can leverage to hand-code a more optimi...

DevOpsTest
Jan 31, 2012
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Queensland ALM UserGroup Meeting Feb 3rd in Brisbane

Charles Sterling

Anthony Borton looks like he is hosting another great User group this month with Andrew Harcourt and Software Project Rescue: A Fairy TaleFriday, February 3, 2012 from 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM (GMT+1000)Brisbane, QueenslandMicrosoft Office - South Stradbroke Island Room Level 28 400 George Street Brisbane, Queensland 4000 Australia Friday, F...

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Jan 27, 2012
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Team Foundation Service Preview – Configure a master backlog and sub-teams

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 One backlog to rule them all…One common practice we’ve seen our customers use is to have a master backlog, which “feeds” several teams. The master backlog is prioritized and maintained, and when it comes time to plan for the next sprint, all the teams gather together and “sign up” for backlog items to work...

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Jan 19, 2012
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Coded UI Test and Microsoft Test Manager Survey

Shubhra Maji MSFT

Have you used Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools - Coded UI Test or Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) in your project(s)? If so, we would like to hear your experience with these features. Let us know what you think by taking the Coded UI / Microsoft Test Manager Survey.Thanks!Shubhra Maji – Visual Studio Test Tools Program Manager

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