Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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Viewing test results in a web browser

May 30, 2007 May 30, 2007 05/30/07
Buck Hodges
Rido posted a cool way to see your test results from a build without having to copy the information locally and view it in VS.  Pretty cool! TestResults Reports in TFS Builds If you use TFSBuilds with VS UnitTests, you know how to inspect the TestResults: you must download the whole directory to your local machine, and sometimes ...

Chicago VSTS Users Group

May 2, 2007 May 2, 2007 05/2/07
Buck Hodges
For those of you in the Chicago area that use Team System, Clark Sell will be presenting at the Chicago VSTS Users Group meeting.  It should be a great time to learn more about VSTS! Chicago VSTS Users Group, Round 2 Since I am speaking this time, I can't help but self promote can I? Right now I am in the middle of sketching out content...

Update to “How to run tests in a build without test metadata files and test lists (.vsmdi files)”: Test Categories

April 27, 2007 Apr 27, 2007 04/27/07
Buck Hodges
 Pierre Greborio, a developer over in MSTV, has contributed a great new feature to the power tool task that allows you to run tests without .vsmdi files: test categories.  Those of you who have used NUnit are probably familiar with the Category attribute.  Test categories allow you to execute specific groups of unit tests. ...

Orcas Beta 1 has shipped – summary of Team Build beta 1 features and links

April 23, 2007 Apr 23, 2007 04/23/07
Buck Hodges
As you probably already know, Orcas Beta 1 has shipped.  Internally, the product team is focused on finding and fixing bugs for beta 2 (and has been for nearly a month now). The release includes a Virtual PC image with all of Visual Studio Team System plus Team Foundation Server, which you can download now.  There's also an image ...

Stop piling on when the build breaks: Build checkin policy for Continuous Integration in Orcas

March 28, 2007 Mar 28, 2007 03/28/07
Buck Hodges
Last fall, Clark Sell wrote a blog post called Stop, the build is broken!! that introduced a checkin policy that reported errors when the build was broken.  If you are using continuous integration where every checkin starts a build, you want folks to stop and fix build breaks when they occur, rather than pile on more checkins and ...

Aaron’s back and has new posts on Team Build

March 21, 2007 Mar 21, 2007 03/21/07
Buck Hodges
Aaron Hallberg took a month off after the birth of his daughter, Stella.  Now that he's back, he's got a couple of interesting posts. The first one applies to TFS 2005 (aka v1) and shows you how to pass custom properties to each solution that you build.  It's something that a lot of folks have needed to be able to do, but the ...