This is part 4 of a video series that will help you learn how to get started and use Application Lifecycle Management tools. The videos are meant to be short and to the point to quickly show you how to perform specific tasks. Be sure to check back often for more videos! Last time, I […]
This weekend I’m heading down to South Florida Code Camp to cover some of my favorite topics. This is a great event that just keeps getting bigger and better every year and I really enjoy going down there. My talks are: 8:30 am – Git with the Program: Succeeding with Version Control Git is a […]
When you first connect to a Git Repository in Visual Studio, you are going to be defaulted to cloning the Master remote branch. But what if you want to work on a different branch? You’ll need to clone that branch before you start working on it. If you look at the branches tab in Team […]
Among one of the many exciting changes released by Microsoft last week was TFS 2013 Update 4. This update includes new lightweight charts that you can access from the Test hub of the TFS Web Portal. The reports provide you with snapshot and trend charts for test cases and test results. Just like other […]
Today, Pluralsight released my course on Microsoft Test Manager 2013. I’m very excited and proud of this course, many of you probably learned about MTM with my MTM 2012 course, which was released last year. This course takes you through all the previously-found features and it includes all the new features found in 2013, including […]
Typically, if you want to bulk-edit TFS work items, you would use the Excel add-in that is installed when you install Team Explorer (or as part of Visual Studio). This is not possible for test cases and their related test steps. If you are using TFS 2013 or Visual Studio Online, you are able to […]
Visual Studio Online gives you the ability to create and manage your product backlog, prioritize your workload, create iterations or sprints, create tasks associated with your backlog, create test plans and test cases to test your product backlog items, of course use version control with the options to use either Team Foundation Version Control or […]
The famous Brian Keller VM, which contains a fully-configured TFS 2013 and Visual Studio 2013 has been updated to include Update 3. It includes a great set of Hands-on-Labs that you can use to get information on the great features of TFS and Visual Studio. You can read about it on Brian’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2014/09/19/now-available-update-3-refresh-of-visual-studio-2013-alm-virtual-machine.aspx, and […]
A few days ago Visual Studio and TFS 2013 Update 4 CTP1 was announced. One of the major features included in this update is the ability to perform Pull Requests when using Git. This is a very important Git feature and it is great to see it making its way to TFS on-premises. This feature […]
Join my coworker and ALM MVP Paul Hacker for a webinar next Tuesday, September 9th: 6 Steps To Achieving Predicable Release Management With Visual Studio 2013. Release management is one of the key processes in a DevOps strategy. When done incorrectly it can cause major issues within IT departments and for organizations at large. In […]