Code UI Test are an effective way to test your UI through automation, they absolutely are not a substitution for Unit Testing, but they can be used effectively to verify the whole application behave as expected. The most annoying part of Coded UI Test is that while they are running you cannot do anything else [...]
A couple of times I encounter this error when I issue a command line pull of a Git repository hosted on TF Service: Your configuration specifies to merge with the ref ‘master’ from the remote, but no such ref was fetched. If you go to the .git folder and open the git config file, I [...]
Thanks to Visual Studio Fakes is it possible to isolate your unit test and testing difficult to test code. Today I need to test a class that issues some Web Request around the internet and I’m concerned about testing the SUT when the web response contains some specific code like 404 (Not Found) or something. [...]
In VS2012 we have support for basically any Unit Test Framework, because the new test runner is plugin based, and everyone can write plugin to make it compatible with the framework of choice. From the original version that was released with Visual Studio 2012 RTM, in Update 1 and Update 2 the test runner gained [...]
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To reduce the size of the repository and to easy dependencies management, nuget is a good solution, and when is time to create a build in TFS you can simply Enable Nuget Package Restore and let the build machine download the dependency for you. This works perfectly even on TF Service (tfs.visualstudio.com) because the Elastic [...]


