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Do you plan to upgrade your Visual Studio Team Foundation Server? Here are a few discussions and checklists to help you with the planning: You can find more information here: Upgrade your deployment to the latest version of TFS. As always we need your candid feedback. Please feel free to post your questions to the checklist post(...

In practical terms, white box unit test development includes an iterative workflow informed by code coverage - write a unit test, see what parts of the code are not covered by the test, write more tests to cover those parts, repeat until all of the code is covered – a workflow not different from what we would use while working with IntelliTest, as ...

Update: we've published the install guide here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/Library/vs/alm/TFS/setup/overview. Feel free to post comments or questions on that here as well as leaving feedback directly on the MSDN page.We're wrapping up work on a new install guide for TFS 2015. Here's what we have for a dual server configuration. If you use it ...

Cloud-based Load Tests with Visual Studio Online now supports goal-based load patterns. Both Agent counters and Load test counters are supported. For those already familiar with goal-based load pattern in Load testing, go ahead and configure it just the way you've always done. For those new to goal-based load pattern, read on. A goal-based load ...

Easily provision the required resources in Microsoft Azure using the Azure Resource Manager templates, and deploy Web applications and SQL Server Databases to the Azure Virtual Machines (VMs), and run tests that are automatically distributed across VMs using the Visual Studio Test Agent. Once the application's functionality is verified, deploy the ...

With Visual Studio Enterprise Edition 2015 RTM, you can now collect advanced diagnostics for your cloud-based load test as part of your run itself. It is often observed that debugging on cloud is a bit difficult as the machines are not directly accessible to the user. It is not possible to collect logs or any other information from the test agents...

Users of TFS can do a few simple things to speed up Unit Test execution and improve the overall Build time. Maximize hardware resource utilization In most likelihood, you run your tests run on a hardware with multiple cores. To make best use of all the cores, you can use the ability of test frameworks to create multiple threads and run your tests...

With Visual Studio Enterprise 2015 RTM and Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 - Update 5, you can now specify the location from where your load test traffic is generated from. This can be any of the supported 10 Azure Datacenter locations around the world. You can do that in the load test wizard as shown below:   -and don’t worry if you forget to set i...

Cloud-based Load Testing with Visual Studio Online helps to identify the application performance issues under a certain user load. You can configure the load test with Application Insights counters in addition to the load test counters. This will enable you to compare and contrast both load test counters and server counters and figure out the perfo...

In this blog post I’m going to talk about IntelliTrace’s default configuration and the ability to opt-in to capture method call information. If you haven’t done so already, check out the announcement of IntelliTrace in Visual Studio 2015 which gives you an overview of IntelliTrace and its improved UI. If you’re not already familiar with IntelliTrac...