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New video on unit testing in VS2012 and TFS
Mon, Oct 8 2012 7:23
A video has just be uploaded that I did on the new unit testing features in Visual Studio  and TFS 2012. This is quick 10 minute introduction to some of the material I will be covering at DDDNorth next weekend . Hope you find it useful Read More...
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TFS Test Agent cannot connect to Test Controller – Part 2
Mon, Oct 1 2012 16:33
I posted last week on the problems I had had getting the test agents and controller in a TFS2012 Standard environment talking to each other and a workaround. Well after a good few email with various people at Microsoft and other consultants at Black Marble I have a whole range of workarounds solutions. First a reminder of my architecture, and note that this could... Read More...
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Moving Environments between TPCs when using TFS Lab Management
Fri, Dec 23 2011 7:09
Background One area I think can be found confusing in TFS Lab Management is that all environments are associated with specific Team Projects (TP) within Team Project Collections (TPC). This is not what you might first expect if you think of Lab Management as just a big Hyper-V server. When configured you end up with a number of TPC/TP related silos as shown in... Read More...
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When you try to run a test in MTM you get a dialog ‘Object reference not set to an instance of an object’
Fri, Dec 16 2011 10:41
When trying to run a newly created manual test in MTM I got the error dialog ‘You cannot run the selected tests, Object reference not set to an instance of an object’.   On checking the windows event log I saw Detailed Message: TF30065: An unhandled exception occurred. Web Request Details Url: http://……/TestManagement/v1.0/TestResultsEx.asmx So not really... Read More...
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‘Expected to find an element’ error when running VS2010 Database unit tests
Mon, Sep 12 2011 17:31
If you use the database unit testing feature of VS2010 there is a good chance you will want to run these tests on more than one PC and probably the build server. The issue is that these different PC will need different deployment paths and SQL connection strings. Luckily there is a feature to address this, as detailed on MSDN . Basically the test runner swaps... Read More...
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Where has my mouse cursor done? Unable to record a video in Microsoft Test Manager
Thu, Aug 18 2011 9:13
MTM has the feature that you can use Expression Media Encoder 4 to record the test run as a video. To enable this feature, after you install MTM, you have to install the basic version of Expression Encoder, and a few patches see notes here for a list of files and the process . I recently did this on PC and tried to record a video. As soon as the recording process... Read More...
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How to waste time with Lab Management – Missing the obvious that MTM points to a Team Project
Wed, Mar 30 2011 4:56
I posted a while ago about common confusion I had seen with Lab Management . We I have recently managed to get myself completely confused whilst working with Lab Management. It turns out the issue was so obvious I managed to miss it for hours, but as usual I learnt a good deal whilst trying to troubleshoot my stupidity. I have a Lab Management system linked up... Read More...
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Getting code coverage working on Team Build 2010
Thu, Aug 5 2010 11:08
If you have VS2010 Premium or Professional you have code coverage built into the test system. When you look at your test results there is a button to see the code coverage You would think that there is easy way to use the code coverage in your automated build process using Team Build 2010, well it can done but you have to do a bit of work. What’s on the build... Read More...
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Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' error using .NET 4 Development Web Server
Sat, Mar 27 2010 7:38
If your application has a dependency on an assembly built in .NET 2 you will see the error below if you try to run your application when it has been built in.NET 4. Mixed mode assembly is built against version 'v2.0.50727' of the runtime and cannot be loaded in the 4.0 runtime without additional configuration information. This can be important in VS2010... Read More...
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At last, my creature it lives……..
Fri, Feb 5 2010 5:32
I have at last worked all the way through setting up my portable end to end demo of  testing using Windows Test and Lab Manager . The last error I had to resolve was the tests not running in the lab environment (though working locally on the development PC). My the Lab Workflow build was recorded as a partial success i.e. it built, it deployed but all the... Read More...
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So you want to demo VS2010 Lab Manager…….
Wed, Jan 27 2010 8:50
I recently decided to build a demo system for VS2010 Lab Manager. This was for a number of reasons, not least I just wanted to have a proper play with it, but also that I was hoping to do a session on Microsoft Test and Lab Manager at DDD8 (as it turns out my session did not get voted for, maybe better luck for DDS , you can still vote for that conference’s sessions... Read More...
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Running Typemock Isolator based tests in TFS 2010 Team Build
Fri, Jan 22 2010 8:29
I have been looking at getting automated builds running on TFS2010 that make use of Typemock Isolator . This is not as straight forward as you would expect. The issue is that you have start Isolator’s mocking interceptor before you run any tests that use Typemock (and stop it afterwards). If you are running in the VS IDE this is all done automatically, but is... Read More...
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TFS 2010 Build Service Configuration Wizard fails with TF255425 error
Thu, Jan 14 2010 7:25
I have at last got round to setting up a full installation VS 2010 Test and Lab Manager using the excellent notes from the Lab Management Team . Whist installing the build server portion I got a strange set of errors. TF255425: An error occurred while installing the following Windows service: TFSBuildServiceHost.exe. For more information, open Event Viewer and... Read More...
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Testing access attributes on the Microsoft MVC framework
Fri, May 1 2009 3:56
The MVC framework provides an excellent way to create a testable web site. In fact when you create a new MVC project you are given the option to create an associated test project that contains MSTEST unit tests for all the sample methods in the MVC Controller class; which you can add to as you go along. Recently whilst working on an MVC project I noticed that... Read More...
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