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Did your application deploy successfully? Use a selenium test in your release pipeline with a Microsoft-hosted agent

July 26, 2019 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


UI Testing with Microsoft-hosted Agents Microsoft-hosted agents are pre-configured for UI testing and UI tests for both web apps and desktop apps. The agents are also pre-configured with popular browsers and matching web-driver versions that can be used for running Selenium tests. The browsers and corresponding web-drivers are updated on a periodic basis.  (ref.) It’s great to […]

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Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Microsoft Azure, Selenium
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Azure PowerShell (Preview) version 4.* (preview)

Using the Azure PowerShell (Preview) task in an Azure Pipeline

July 23, 2019 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


I wanted an excuse to use the 4.* (preview) version of the task so I could take the Az module out for a spin. My goal was to perform the following steps I would normally perform with a browser and mouse in the Azure Portal: Delete Resource Group if it already exists Create Resource Group […]

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Azure, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Microsoft Azure
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Testing your CosmosDB apps locally without actually using Azure

July 7, 2019 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


I think you’ll find this implementation of CosmosDB Server for testing your applications locally quite interesting. We will going through the following steps: Download node Make an empty package.json file Install cosmosdb-server using npm Create an app.js file Install cosmos dependency using npm Start your cosmosdb-server Make sure in your TestClass TestInitialize method to ignore […]

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Azure, CosmosDB, Microsoft Azure, Visual Studio
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The new web based Release Management “V.Next”

March 10, 2016 by Wes MacDonald 9 Comments


Release Management has been moving at a eager pace at Microsoft which you can see today on Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).  I have been waiting for this same experience to be available on-premises and I’m happy to say it is included with the Release Candidate of TFS 2015 Update 2! Lots of new release […]

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Azure, Microsoft Azure, Release Management, Visual Studio
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Simple Performance Testing for your Web App hosted in Microsoft Azure

October 22, 2015 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


Whether you have created an ASP.NET Web Application using the Visual Studio 2015 wizard and published it to Azure or you have uploaded some website files to a Web Application to Azure wouldn’t it be nice to have some way of performing a simple performance test to help you determine whether everything is alright with your […]

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Load Test, Microsoft Azure, Performance Test, Visual Studio Online
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