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Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...
Tweet Today I came to a customer for consulting and the customer told me that there is no Backups for TFS. So right away I told him this is very important and let’s create a Backup Plan for TFS. How To: Create TFS 2010 Backup Plan Problem So I’ve download TFS 2010 Power Tools, Install, Open TFS Administration Console, Click “Create Backup Plan” and Nothing happens. So I’ve started to investigate and saw some errors in TFS Event Log, of course I saw “Object reference not set to an instance of an object...
Tweet Quality Center vs. TFS is a question I hear a lot, each customer that works with Quality Center has faced this question when the development team has decided to work with TFS or the Testers want features to help them improve their testing quality. Instead of talking about that subject only with my customers I decided to write something on that subject to help you understand the power of TFS for Testers, and how this platform will improve your Testing abilities with more advance features and...
Tweet מהרגע שחזרתי מכנס Build לקוחות שואלים אותי מה מחכה להם בגרסא החדשה של Visual Studio 11 ו – TFS 11? קצת היסטוריה – בעבר חברות רכשו מספר רב של כלים עבור כל תפקיד ייעודי בחברה, לאנשי פיתוח – Visual Studio, לאנשי בדיקות Quality Center ועוד כלים לאוטומציה, מנהלים עבדו עם Excel או MS Project ועוד ועוד כלים, הבעיה שלא היתה אינטגרציה ושיתופיות מלאה בין הכלים, מה שגרם לקשיים לא קטנים בתקשורת ובמעקב אחרי התהליך. ב – 2005 מיקרוסופט הוציאה לאוויר העולם את Team System כמוצר נפרד מ – Visual Studio שהיה חידוש...
A week ago I blogged about Quality Center 11 and Test Director are Now Supported by Scrat and did a MSDN Webcast on how to migrate Quality Center to TFS 2010. In this webcast, learn how to use the Scrat Migration Tool ( Download ) from SELA Group to migrate defects, requirements, test cases, attachments, and links between the items from HP Quality Center to Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 in seconds. View the video - Download PowerPoint Slides Event Page - http://www.microsoft...
I’m happy to announce that Scrat ( Quality Center To TFS 2010 Migration Tool ) is now supporting all HP Quality Center Versions including the latest - Quality Center 11 (Application Lifecycle Management) For more information please visit Sela ALM Tools page. In couple of hours I’ll present Scrat in MSDN Web Cast ( MSDN Webcast - Migrate Quality Center to Team Foundation Server 2010 Using... ) and you can learn how to use Scrat to move all Quality Center Item to TFS 2010 in hours! When: Registration...
Power Tools for Microsoft VS 2010 users – Innovative software that saves time and money Sela Technology Center is proud to announce the release of our unique software development productivity power tools for the Microsoft ALM environment: SCRAT , WTM and WIMBI . All products are well proven and based on our deep understanding of client requirements for Development and Testing activities using Microsoft VS 2010. About SCRAT - MIGRATION : SCRAT tool enables the most time efficient and cost effective...
How To: "Unable to load DLL 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.QualityTools.RecorderBarBHO100.dll': The specified module could not be found" Working on a new environment trying to perform an new Web Test I was faced two issues: 1. Web Test Recorder doesn’t show up Problem :When I start my recording Internet Explorer comes up but the Web Test Recorder doesn’t show up. Solution : In IE enter Tools menu Select Explorer Bars and Click “Web Test Recorder 10.0” – (This will work for Web Test 8.0...
Coded UI Editor – Guide Feature Pack 2 is Available! and it’s Awesome! The feature pack comes with some great features and the one I want to talk about in this post is – Coded UI Test Editor. I’ve recorded a simple CUIT on Windows Calculator that adds to numbers and show the result. Getting Started After you install the Feature Pack 2 you will notice that Double Click or Right click on “UIMap.uitest” file will open a new window contains all CUIT Actions. The new screen contains the Method Names ...
Scrat - Quality Center To TFS 2010 In Hours Instead Of Months Regarding previous posts like Quality Center Migration To Team System 2010 – Done , Quality Center 2 TFS 2010 Migration In 3 Hours and more, Today I’m happy to announce – Scrat is no more in Beta stages and has been tested successfully with various customers. Scrat Includes: Wizard based tool Test hierarchy builder(Automatically build Test Plans, Test Suite and find matching Test Cases) Migrate Test Cases, Defect and Requirements Links...
Building Setup Project In devenv.com Command Line Fails, Works In IDE I started to build a Build Definition in TFS 2010 (WF) for one of my customers and ran into a strange problem with couple of Setup Projects, when I build the Setup Project in Visual Studio 2010 IDE the setup built just fine but once I tried to build it using devenv command it fails.. (To build setup project using Team Build you need to invoke devenv with command line arguments.) The Error from the command line is: ERROR: Unable...
TFS API Part 25: Get TFS User List (Mail Sid, Account, Domain) – TFS 2010 One of my first posts on TFS API I showed how to obtain TFS User List ( TFS API Part 4: Get TFS User List (Mail, Sid, Account, Domain) )m Couple of days ago I got a question how to perform the same thing on TFS 2010, This is very simple: In TFS 2008 the global user group were called = "Team Foundation Valid Users". Identity SIDS = gss.ReadIdentity( SearchFactor .AccountName, "Team Foundation Valid...
The "BuildShadowTask" task failed When Running tests Team System you got this error - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Error 8 The "BuildShadowTask" task failed unexpectedly. System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.BuildShadowReferences.BuildShadowTask.Execute() at Microsoft.Build.BuildEngine.TaskEngine...
How To Add File Upload To Team System Web Test May times people asks me how can I Upload File with Web Test, The first thing is to record the Web Test using “Web Test Recorder” or Fiddler. But when running the Web Test its fails in the Upload section. Why? Before understanding the problem let get familiar with “File Upload Parameter” Right click on the required request and select “Add File Upload Parameter” Then you can add the field name and the file location. So why file...
Running Unit Tests End With - “The specified module could not be found” “The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E)” Some times your test relay on additional file that need to be in the same folder where Team System running the Test. Those files can’t be add into the GAC and you can’t copy them manually each time. So What Do Do? We need to use Deployment settings Deployment settings specify deployment location and any file to be deploy in the addition to the target...
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