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The level of contribution some our ALM community members dedicate to helping their peers is amazing.  Here is an example of what three community members, Mohamed Radwan, Ayman El-Hattab and Hosam Kamel,  created to help folks getting started with their TFS environments. Great work Guys!The Visual Guide for Building Team Foundation Server ...

This blog post is for the people who started using the Beta or RC version of VS 2012 and created projects in either of these versions that are still active.In case you want to update your work item types to the level of RTM, you can do two things:  If you want to follow step 2, here is the list of changes that we have done:From Beta to RCWhe...

A common concern I hear from customers with every new version of Visual Studio is the availability of their favorite addins and 3rd party tools. With Visual Studio 2012 we made early builds just to all our partners to ensure their availability. TeamCompanion will not only be ready the day of launch they are using it to celebrate their 5th Annivers...

One of the frustrating things about Test Automation is that to do it properly you need your testers and developers to work together but the problem arises from the fact developers don’t want to write tests and testers don’t want to code. For this reason most companies find it very difficult to get automation their automation efforts off the ground!...

Customizable process guidance is now available for each of the default process templates that VS ALM Team Foundation Server provides. You can download and unzip these files, modify them to support your team processes, and redirect the process guidance link to your customized content. For downloads, see Customizable Process Guidance Content for VS ...

On Jason Zanders’s blog I noticed the question: …where is the Test Toolbar. Couldn't find it anywhere. In Visual Studio 2012 we made an effort to simplify the user interface to give people more room for their own work and to make the IDE more productive. Part of this simplification was not showing as many toolbars by default.  In most cases ...

Just received a question on an internal distribution list: What is Lab Management doing on the Network? I am seeing traffic like: Lab Management            QueryLabSystemDeploymentTasks         Date     Machine_name  IP_Add...

If you are wondering about different vendors of Application Lifecycle Management Tools it is worth taking a look at their latest research where Gartner positions Microsoft in the ALM Leaders Quadrant: Read the Magic Quadrant for ALM reportTom Murphy is also starting research project on trends in testing organizations. So if you are interested in ha...

If you are using Visual Studio TFS 2013, you can find this level of information in the following topic: Choose the Team Foundation client to support your tasks.In Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 you have a number of tools to perform some familiar tasks as well as excercise new tasks. In some cases, you can only exercise some features from...

The ALM Rangers started the Demonstration factory initiative to raise the overall quality bar of hands-on labs and to create DemoMate based recordings. The team’s key objectives were to improve** accuracy** and consistency in terms of style and delivery of hands-on labs and walkthroughs. ALM Rangers Demo Factory nuggets The solutions for the as...