Ranger Flash – October 2013

NOTE: Click on images for better quality.

Updates

• Unit Test Generator team has shipped a v1.1 bug fix revision, with another planned for early November.
• Building a Release Pipeline with TFS eBook is available. Enjoy the read!
• Robert MacLean from the ALM Readiness Treasure Map team released a video taking you on a fast tour through the solution upgrade, UX and coding changes.

Telemetry

The TFS Branch Tool and TFS Unit Test Generator are actively sending telemetry! Please send us a smile tagged with Unit Test Generator to tell us your story!

Welcome

Please welcome the following new Associate ALM Ranger: Michel Perfetti.

Team Rooms for Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Team Rooms for Visual Studio 2013 extension from Tarun Arora and Utkarsh Shigihalli is pretty cool!

Interesting Gems

• Agile Development: Art, Science of Both by Aaron Bjork.
• Running unit tests that use Microsoft Fakes on Team Build by Vladimir Gusarov.
• Unleash the Power of Story Points by Gregg Boer.
• Visual Studio 2013 Static Code Analysis in depth: What? When and How? by Hosam Kamel
• Vladimir talks about Microsoft Fakes and Team Build on his new English blog

Tell us about your success stories!

Are you aware of a success story in which the Visual Studio ALM Rangers and/or their solutions have accelerated the adoption of Visual Studio, unblocked an engagement and/or resulted in a happy user?

Are you an ALM Ranger?

Please nominate your champions, react to review requests from teams and continue active collaboration and candid feedback on our Yammer network.