Category Archives: TFS 11 Beta

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What’s New in TFS 2012?- Introduction


In this series I will start introducing what’s new in Visual Studio 11 and Team Foundation Server 11 ( TFS 11) or as we expect to be Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 (TFS 2012)

 

  1. Introduction
  2. Project Management Tool
  3. SSDT (SQL Server Developer Tool)
  4. Team Explorer
  5. My Work
  6. Code Review
  7. Suspend and Resume
  8. Local Workspace
  9. Pending Change
  10. Diff and Merge tool
  11. Unit Testing Improvement
  12. Code Clones
  13. Build Improvement
  14. Storyboarding
  15. Microsoft Feedback Client
  16. Exploratory Testing Improvement
  17. IntelliTrace in Production
  18. Alerts
  19. Administration

 

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Introduction

I perform the Team Foundation Server (TFS) 11 Beta upgrade from the day one of the Beta release, I read many blog articles, MSDN, I also saw many videos, so I will not re-invent the wheel by rewriting what I have read or view through out all the previous period, but I will put the main point of the new features or improvement and I will put my feedback and realization about these features.

So the first question why we upgrade specially that the RTM not released yet?

This always one of my main question all the time for any new technologies or framework, unfortunately my answer was far from what I believe now, I used to trust of my experience and my existing solution, but what I found? I found that all my solutions are out dated and there are elegant solutions there, perfect, fast, easy and I just missed all of them all the time, eventually I realize the truth! the world keeping change and there are always improvement and your perfect solution today will be the worst tomorrow :-(

The new technologies means new features and enhance for the old, some people said and new bugs too! especially in the beta, absolutely right, but ……

It’s always what you get more and more bigger than what you face of issues or bugs and you know that if you really master your tools, it’s a long story to tell so enough talk and let’s see what I decide.

So this what I believed now!

This why the upgrade is a must for me and I always waiting for it and guess what? it has more than I expected :-)

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Getting Religion with TFS for Agile Software Development!



In this 5 minutes video, I introduced TFSEG Values and Principles, I believe these principles will help many people and it may change their life if they are believers, it will also put the roadmap for our contributors that want to join the user group and tell them what we believe, to summarize the video, it will show the value of automation, teamwork, code guidance, rules, unit testing, etc and how all these fit with Agile and TFS Team Foundation Server.

Each principle may need a whole day from me to represent but the presentation only about 5 minutes, because it just introduce these principles, so if anyone has a question or inquiry please don’t hesitate to contact me, I may create a details video later based on the community demand and questions.

Waiting for your feedback and questions

For the prize of the video just see this post

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Visual Studio 11 Beta Wallpapers and Windows Theme v 2.0



***Update Jun 23, 2012*****
The new Wallpapers and Theme for Visual Studio 2012 here

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After the successes of my first post which is ” Visual Studio 11 Beta Wallpapers and Windows Theme“, I decided to create a new post with new wallpapers and themes of Visual Studio but this time I made some new modification, the first themes in this post will include our TFSEG Values and Principles, see the video, the second one will not has these Principles and finally there are some separate wallpapers.

Here, you can find the first theme with TFSEG Values and Principles.

For some old wallpapers click here

Download the theme with the principles

Download the theme without the principles

Here, you can find  separate wallpapers

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Visual Studio 11 ALM Hands-On-Labs in Arabic


Update   July 27, 2012

These labs become obsolete and there are new labs on the following link

هذه المعامل عفا عليها الزمن، وهناك معامل جديدة على الرابطه التاليه

Visual Studio 2012 RC ALM Hands-On-Labs Now in Arabic

End of update

لقد انتهيت من اعداد التجارب المعملية للفيجول استوديو 11 التجريبى باللغة العربية، هذه التجارب المعملية سوف تعرض الامكانيات الجديدة للفيجول استوديو وتيم فونديشن سيرفر 11 التجريبى، كما سوف نقوم فى تى اف اس ايجبت جروب بتقديم هذه التجارب على هيئة فيديو باللغة العربية ايضا وسوف نقدم الدعم الفنى لأى مشكله قد تواجة البعض عند اجراء هذه التجارب، فقط اطلب المساعدة، فنحن فى انتظار انضمامكم لنا كمستمعيين او منظميين او مشاركيين، فنحن نريد ان نوسع ونزيد من قدرتنا على استخدام تيم فونديشن سيرفر 11 والتى سوف تنعكس على جودة المشاريع التى نقدمها

للحصول على النسخة الانجليزية قم بزيارة موقع براين كيلر

لاحظ انه لابد من تواجد الجهاز الافتراضى الموجود على موقع براين كيلر حتى تتمكن من اجراء هذه التجارب المعملية

لتحميل اى اختبار معملى، فقط اضغط على الرابطة

اختبار الوحدة برنامج اختبار مايكروسوفت, ووحدة إن,وشبكة وحدية إكس., ونسخ الكود مع فيجوال أستوديو 11

إدارة أيجيل للمشاريع في برنامج تيم فاونديشن سيرفر11

الاختبار الاستكشافي والتحسينات الأخرى في برنامج مايكروسوفت تست مانجر 11

بناء البرامج الصحيحة إنشاء اللوحة التوضيحية وتجميع التغذية الرجعية للمستفيدين في برنامج فيجوال أستوديو 11

تشخيص المشاكل في الإنتاج مع إنتيليتريس و فيجوال أستوديو 11

جعل المطورين أكثر إنتاجية مع تيم فاونديشن سيرفر 11

I completed the translation of Visual Studio 11 Hands-On-Labs in Arabic, these labs will introduce the new features of the Visual Studio and TFS 11 Beta, these labs also will be provided in webcast and video in Arabic very soon through our TFS Egypt User Group (TFSEG), we also will provide an online support for these labs so if you find any problem to perform any lab,  just ask for help, we are waiting for more people to join our TFS Egypt User Group (TFSEG), join as listener, helper, coordinator or contributor, we really want to spread and grow up our usage of  TFS that will provide a real software quality to our projects.

For the original English version you can visit Brian Keller blog here

Both English and Arabic Labs will need the new VM of the Brain Keller that has the new bits of the Visual Studio and TFS 11 Beta

To download any lab in Arabic just click on the lab link

Unit Testing with Visual Studio 11 – MSTest, NUnit, xUnit.net, and Code Clone

Agile Project Management in Team Foundation Server 11

Exploratory Testing and Other Enhancements in Microsoft Test Manager 11

Building the Right Software – Generating Storyboards and Collecting Stakeholder Feedback with Visual Studio 11

Diagnosing Issues in Production with IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 11

Making Developers More Productive with Team Foundation Server 11

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TFS Egypt User Group (TFSEG) Kick off meeting and Roadmap April 18, 2012


Note: Please note that all sessions, webcasts and videos of TFSEG are localized and  introduced in Arabic only

 

The first kick off meeting of TFS Egypt User Group (TFSEG) is being held on April 18, 2012 at 7:00 PM in Ocean Soft premises, 70 El-Thawra St, Cairo Egypt

https://sites.google.com/site/tfsegyptusergroup/calendar/kickoffmeetingandroadmapapril182012

The User Group is for all software job roles even the customer within the software industry. So if you are involved in product management, a stakeholder, a business analysis or product owner, a developer or a tester this User Group is for you.

We will discuss the roadmap and our technologies, our mission and aims.

Waiting for you :-)

TFSEG
For more information see our calendar here

https://sites.google.com/site/tfsegyptusergroup/calendar/kickoffmeetingandroadmapapril182012

To download Visual Studio and TFS 11 Beta click on the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads

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Lab 5:Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta



TFS 11 Beta Hands-on Lab series–

Lab 5:Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta

In this series the following labs:

  1. Introduction
  2. Lab 1: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  3. Lab2: Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 11 Beta
  4. Lab 3: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  5. Lab 4: Authoring and Running Shared Steps within Test Case Using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  6. Lab 5:Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
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6. Lab 5:Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta

This lab will show you,

How to manage test settings? How to manage test configurations? What are the test suites type exist in MTM? How to create test plan? How to run plan?  How to Analyze test runs? How to track changes using Test Impact Analysis?

 

To download Visual Studio and TFS 11 Beta click on the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads

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Lab 4: Authoring and Running Shared Steps within Test Case Using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta



TFS 11 Beta Hands-on Lab series–

Lab 4: Authoring and Running Shared Steps within Test Case Using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta

In this series the following labs:

  1. Introduction
  2. Lab 1: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  3. Lab2: Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 11 Beta
  4. Lab 3: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  5. Lab 4: Authoring and Running Shared Steps within Test Case Using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  6. Lab 5:Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
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5. Lab 4: Authoring and Running Shared Steps within Test Case Using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta

This lab will show you, how to create Shared Steps? How to record action separately for Shared Steps? How to include Shared Steps in Test Cases? This video also will show you, how to record Shared Steps during the record of the parent Test Case? And finally how to run fast forward for all recorded Shared Steps?

You can download the test script of the lab from here

 

To download Visual Studio and TFS 11 Beta click on the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads

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Lab 3: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta



TFS 11 Beta Hands-on Lab series–

Lab 3: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta

In this series the following labs:

  1. Introduction
  2. Lab 1: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  3. Lab2: Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 11 Beta
  4. Lab 3: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  5. Lab 4: Authoring and Running Shared Steps within Test Case Using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  6. Lab 5:Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
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3. Lab 3: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta

This lab will show you, how to create configuring a Test Plan in Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta,  How to add Test Suites and Test Cases to a Test Plan.

 

To download Visual Studio and TFS 11 Beta click on the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads

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Lab 2: Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 11 Beta



TFS 11 Beta Hands-on Lab series–

Lab 2: Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 11 Beta

In this series the following labs:

  1. Introduction
  2. Lab 1: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  3. Lab2: Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 11 Beta
  4. Lab 3: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  5. Lab 4: Authoring and Running Shared Steps within Test Case Using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  6. Lab 5:Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
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2. Lab 2: Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 11 Beta

This lab will show you, how to create Coded UI from action recording? How create Coded UI from Coded UI Test Builder? How to create and run Data Driven Coded UI test?

 

To download Visual Studio and TFS 11 Beta click on the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads

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Lab 1: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta



TFS 11 Beta Hands-on Lab series–

Lab 1: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta

In this series the following labs:

  1. Introduction
  2. Lab 1: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  3. Lab2: Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 11 Beta
  4. Lab 3: Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  5. Lab 4: Authoring and Running Shared Steps within Test Case Using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
  6. Lab 5:Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta
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2. Lab 1: Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 11 Beta

This lab will show you, how to create test case? How to run test case? How to investigate test result? How to create shared steps.

 

To download Visual Studio and TFS 11 Beta click on the following link
http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads