Productivity

I’ve just posted up a new video showing how you can link automation tests in Test Studio to user story acceptance criteria in Team Pulse. It’s extraordinarily simple to do! Find the video here on Telerik TV! About the author Jim Holmes Jim Holmes has around 25 years IT experience. He is co-author of "Windows Developer Power Tools" and Chief Cat Herder of the CodeMash Conference. He's a blogger and evangelist for Telerik’s Test Studio, an awesome set of tools to help teams deliver better software. Find him as @aJimHolmes on Twitter.

In case you didn’t know, each Thursday we have webinars for introducing people to Test Studio. They’re an hour long with ten or 15 minutes of slides, then 45-60 minutes of demos with Q&A interwoven in. I recorded yesterday’s session and have posted it up to Telerik TV: Getting To Know Test Studio (1/5/2012). It’s just over an hour long and walks through the main features of Test Studio. I talk a lot about general automated software testing, discuss our performance testing features, and also show off our great manual testing capabilities. I also spend some time talking about ...

I’ve just posted up a new video showing how to hook Test Studio and Team Foundation Server together. The video walks through using Test Studio to open up projects from your TFS repository, then shows basic check-in/check-out features. I also walk through what merge conflicts look like in Test Studio and how to deal with them. Then I flip to Visual Studio and show how you can link User Stories to Test Cases to Automated Tests—and show how you can write bugs against specific test cases. Test Studio: Integrating With TFS I hope you find this useful!

Our customers have been asking us for some way to have visibility across a number of projects at the same time. We also think this is a great idea!!! For that reason, we’ve dedicated our next release (targeted toward the end of January 2012) to providing cross-project views to our customers. Before we started development, we really wanted to understand “who” would want such views – overwhelmingly, customers have told us that cross project views would be great for team members as well as roles such as the development manager, whose responsibility is to govern many projects at the same ...

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.” – Mark Twain Mark Twain wasn’t a Software Development manager in any way; however, his words still resonate very accurately when it comes to how you can get started adopting Agile project management techniques. Here are the top 5 practices you can use TODAY regardless of your situation or environment. 1.Don’t call it “Agile” – The term Agile seems to have become fatigued or simply over/misused. In some organizations it ...