Creating a Custom SSDT Test Condition
I was teaching our new SSDT2019 class today and, while discussing SQL Server Unit Testing, I was asked why the default Row Count test condition only tested for equality (and not less than, greater …
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According to Microsoft’s official definition, Team Rooms, like chat rooms, “provide teams with a space to discuss work in progress, ask questions, share status, and clarify issues that …
Read more →Storyboard your ideas for free
Update (April 2016): Microsoft has released Office Integration 2015 Update 2.
With the recent release of Team Foundation Server Update 1, Microsoft has enabled all users to create storyboards in …
Read more →Turn off the Diagnostics Tools window in Visual Studio 2015
I’m sure it’s awesome. I’m sure it doesn’t impact performance (much). I’m sure my apps would be more awesome if I used it, but …
… today I want to turn off …
Read more →Update: Added additional links for my same talks at VSLive! in San Francisco today (17 June, 2015)
Thank you to those who attended my two talks today. I enjoyed our conversation about Technical Debt …
Read more →Use Excel to Create Repetitive Work Items
Teams often ask me for any shortcuts to periodically creating the same work items, such as for each sprint or release. In other words, they want to create the same Product Backlog Item or Task (but …
Read more →A unique load testing experiment
Most of the guidance you’ll find about Visual Studio Ultimate Load Tests suggests that they are only for load testing Web Performance tests. Actually, they can be used to load other types of …
Read more →The ProcessTemplateEditorPackage package did not load correctly
Yesterday, while using Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013 to customize a process template, I ran into this error …
As suggested, I checked the ActivityLog.xml, but it didn’t offer anything more …
Read more →Quality Enablement through Agile Testing
Thank you for attending last week’s Quality Enablement through Agile Testing event put on by Microsoft here in Boise.
I hope you had fun exploring the testing tools in Visual Studio and Team …
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