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I have posted about the “Microsoft Test and Lab Management” (MTLB) first when the Beta 1 was introduced. In this post I will show the changes made since Beta 1, you can read my post here . The menu in Beta 1 was this: In Beta 2 you can only find 2 sections: The Organize section is now part of the Testing Center sub menus. lets take a peek at the sub menus in the Beta 2: If you will compare that to Beta 1 you will see that the same functionality and menus stayed the same but is reorganized in the...
With the Team System 2010 Beta 1 the Manual Testers have received a great tool called “Microsoft Test And Lab Management” . Every Microsoft tool has its code name and the “Microsoft Test And Lab Management is no different, the code name for this tool is “Camano” . In this post I will give a brief overview of the tool , I will not show all the functionality of the tool in order to keep the post short and readable. The tool is built of three main sections: 1. Testing Center – In this section the user...
This morning when I worked with the Team Build 2010 Beta 1 I found a very nice surprise. I work a lot with the Team Build and when I have a problem with the build I go to the log file, some of you that have encountered this “Monster” log file know that it is a “killer” for the eyeballs, it is a very long notepad file that lists all the steps made by the build engine and all the errors it has encountered. You can see very short example of such a log at the end of this post. So what is so exciting...
Before I start with the how to create a branch step by step guide, I like to remind that creating a branch should be done by a SCM (Software Configuration Management) plan and not when ever you “feel” like creating a branch. It is very important to manage your branches or else you will have a big pile of branches that no one knows there purpose. After saying that here is the step by step guide: The demonstration will be for a demo project called "Web Sites". Step 1: Right click the source...
A project I am doing these days requires me to get file history changesets using the API . Sounds like a simple task right? Apparently there is not a lot of reference to that in Google, so after almost throwing my computer out of the window (More than once I most admit) I found the answer. Add the following references to your using list: using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client; using Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Client; using System.Collections; using System.Windows.Forms; The example function...
I am happy to announce a new Codeplex project that gathers Team System guides both for Team System 2008 and for Team System 2010. You can see the site here . All guides are in word or PDF formats so you can download and print them. Have Fun!!!
There is a great MSDN site that gathers all the information and feedbacks for the Team System 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 version. You can get all the downloads, installations instructions, walkthroughs and more all in this site. you can find the site in the following URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx Have Fun!!!
For all my customers that kept asking me when it will finally be here I am glad to say after all this exhausting waiting for it, it is finally here!!! The official announcement was two days ago 18/05/2009, you can read more about the release in Brian Harry’s post here . I can’t wait to start using the cool feature in this release and I am sure I am not alown. Have Fun!!!
The Details of this message are: “Detailed Message: The pending configuration changes were not successfully added to the cube because of the following error: System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException: Some or all identity references could not be translated. at System.Security.Principal.NTAccount.Translate(IdentityReferenceCollection sourceAccounts, Type targetType, Boolean forceSuccess) at System.Security.Principal.NTAccount.Translate(Type targetType) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse...
There are times when you need to write your own extraction rule, it is very simple to do that just follow these steps: Step 1: Create a new project, make it a “Class Library” type. Step 2: Add a reference to: Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.WebTestFramework.dll located in “Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\”. Step 3: Add the following using: using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting; using Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebTesting.Rules; using System...
Many people using the Source Control of the Team System don’t really understand how do Get Latest Version works . Customers calls me in the middle of the night telling me that they have lost files and lost changes, after the shuck is over I ask them what they did, they tell me: “I did Get Latest Version and I don’t see the files or the changes” . Because that I am tired of getting to customers in the middle of the night I decided to write this post explaining how does it work. Lets start with that...
I will start by explaining what is a test plug-in and than I will show how to create one. Web Test Plug-in is used to do the following: Run code that you write at the beginning or at the end of each Iteration. In order to use it in the beginning and the end of each iteration you will need to override the PreWebTest and PostWebTest methods. Run code at the beginning or the end of each Request. In order to use a Web Test Plug-in in the beginning and the end of each request you will need to override...
I have published a post regarding the Scrum Process Template here . Now I like to talk about a grate addition to the Scrum with Team System. In CodePlex there is a project name Scrum Sprint Monitor located here . This project is a screen saver that shows you the Sprint status at all times with nice summaries, graphs and charts. To set it up you need to do the following: Step 1: Edit the “SprintConfiguration.txt” file Here is an example: ProjectName= Scrum Example ProcessTemplateName= Scrum for Team...
Scrum is an Agile development methodology that has a growing audience in the software development world. I have been asked by customers of mine regarding the Team System and the Scrum . Team System is very flexible and can easily support the Scrum Methodology with a few customizations, however there are Process Templates already made with the Scrum support so you can download them and start using them with no charge . I will mention here two of these Process Templates: CodePlex: I will start with...
I have posted about changing the TFS Source Control Cache Settings in order to boost performance here How can we be sure that the changes are correct and we have better performance now? The TFS is saving statistics so you can monitor the cache performance easily. What can you see? Current cache size Total cache hits Total download requests Total files in cache How can you see it? Step 1: Log in to the application tier and open a browser. Step 2: Surf to - http://localhost:8080/VersionControl/v1.0...
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