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Review of ‘Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012’ from Packt Publishing
Richard Fennell Aug 28, 2013 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have just been reading Software Testing using Visual Studio 2012 by Subashni. S and Satheesh Kumar. N from Packt Publishing
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A week with a Nokia 820
Richard Fennell Aug 21, 2013 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I have been using a Nokia 800 (Windows Phone 7.8) for a year or so and been happy with it. It does what I needed i.e. phone, email, media player mainly for podcasts. So given all the reported issues with WP8 and podcasts (no Zune client to manage the subscription/sync and you can only subscribe through the store if …
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DDDNorth session voting is now open
Richard Fennell Aug 15, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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You can now vote for the sessions you wish to see at DDNorth2
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Hope to see you there on Saturday 12th October 2013 in Sunderland

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Why is my TFS Lab build picking a really old build to deploy?
Richard Fennell Aug 1, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I was working on a TFS lab deployment today and to speed up testing I set it to pick the build of the TFS build that actually builds the code, as opposed to queuing a new one each time. It took me ages to remember/realise why it kept trying to deploy some ancient build that had long since been deleted from my test …
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Fix for ‘Cannot install test agent on these machines because another environment is being created using the same machines’
Richard Fennell Jul 29, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I recently posted about adding extra VMs to existing environments in Lab Management. Whilst following this process I hit a problem, I could not create my new environment there was a problem at the verify stage. It was fine adding the new VMs, but the one I was reusing gave the error ‘Microsoft test manager cannot …
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Making the drops location for a TFS build match the assembly version number
Richard Fennell Jul 27, 2013 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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A couple of years ago I wrote about using the TFSVersion build activity to try to sync the assembly and build number. I did not want to see build names/drop location in the format 'BuildCustomisation_20110927.17’, I wanted to see the version number in the build something like 'BuildCustomisation 4.5.269.17'. The …
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I can never remember the command line to add use to the TFS Service Accounts group
Richard Fennell Jul 26, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I keep forgetting when you use TFS Integration Platform that the user who the tool (or service account is running as a service) is running as has to be in the “Team Foundation Service Accounts” group on the TFS servers involved. If they are not you get a runtime conflict something like …
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An attempted return for ‘Brian the build bunny’
Richard Fennell Jul 23, 2013 · 7 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Back in 2008 Martin Woodward did a post on using a Nabaztag as a build monitor for TFS, ‘Brian the build bunny’. I did a bit more work on this idea and wired into our internal build monitoring system. We ended up with a system where a build definition could be tagged so that it’s success or failure caused …

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Adding another VM to a running Lab Management environment
Richard Fennell Jul 23, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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If you are using network isolated environment in TFS Lab management there is no way to add another VM unless you rebuild and redeploy the environment. However, if you are not network isolated you can at least avoid the redeploy issues to a degree.
I had a SCVMM based environment that was a not network isolated …

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Experiences with a Kindle Paperwhite
Richard Fennell Jul 20, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I wrote a post a while ago about ‘should I buy a Kindle’, well I put if off for over a year using the Kindle app on my WP7 phone, reading best part of 50 books and been happy enough without buying an actual Kindle. The key issue being poor battery life, but that’s phones for you.
However, I have eventually got around …

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