Author: Canarys

  • Introduction to SharePoint and its features

    What is SharePoint? SharePoint is a platform to support collaboration and Content management system. It is a central web based portal where you can manage document, social activities, data and information. It allows groups to set up a centralized, password protected space for document sharing. Document can be stored, download and edited then upload for…

  • What are Frames? How to handle frames in Selenium WebDriver with C#?

    IFrame (FullForm: Inline Frame) is an HTML document that is included in another HTML document and is used to place the contents from another source. Eg: Advertisements, Youtube Videos etc… Almost all site includes IFramenow a day, where they would be displaying advertisements or playing videos of other sources. Now, let’s see how to identify…

  • What is Synchronization? Handling Synchronization in Selenium WebDriver using C#:

    Synchronization meaning: when two or more components involved to perform any action, we expect these components to work together with the same pace. The co-ordination between these components to run paralelly is called Synchronization. Synchronization (Wait) in Selenium has a great significant value. Now a day, we see most of the web applications are developed…

  • How to Prevent Users from Moving Task to Closed State with a non-Zero value Remaining Work field in VSTS/TFS

    One workflow problem we see in VSTS/TFS projects is people move the Task to Closed or Resolved state without updating the Remaining Work to Zero which leads to some incorrect project reports. In theory, there should be no Remaining work for Closed or Resolved Tasks. One of our customer had this below requirement. Wanted share…

  • Why move to VSTS?

    Introduction to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Visual Studio Online is not Visual Studio on the Web. Many people might think that it’s simply the cloud-based version of Microsoft development tool. But, it is Team Foundation Server (TFS) on cloud. It started off as the online version of TFS, but with a lot of features and services added in…

  • DevOps with Visual Studio Team Services for Java

    Java DevOps is simply applying DevOps practices and philosophies to Java app development. That means that compartmentalized teams are no longer needed when creating Java applications. Benefits of Java DevOps DevOps take a people-first approach. Apart from bringing together your development, operations and other teams, DevOps require team members to understand the perspective of other members…

  • Implementing Security to your DevOps Pipeline

    Hi all, today in this post I'm gonna talk about "Implementing Security to your DevOps Pipeline using VSTS and White Source Bolt (DevSecOps)". As we all know the trends that we are seeing out in the market, lot of buzz words are being heard and DevOps being 1 of them . People are adopting the…

  • VSTS Rollup Service – Setup

    Hi All, if you are worrying how to calculate sum of the effort fields in VSTS, here is the solution. I’m going to explain you how our VSTS Rollup Service works. Here is the entire thing you need to know. VSTS Rollup is a Web Service which provides summed values of select fields for all child…

  • VSTS Rollup Service – How to use

              Hi All, Here i'm going to explain How VSTS RollUp Service works and how to use RollUp service in your Team Project. Once the VSTS Rollup service is created and enabled for your team project, go to the same Team Project and create the work items like Epic, Feature, PBI, Tasks, Bugs. When you Task/Bug…

  • VSTS RollUp

    Hi All, In this post, I’d show you show you the few Pre-requisites to get your VSTS Team Project registered for the RollUp web service, and Steps to create service hooks. Please search for VSTS Rollup on VSTS Marketplace and click on Get Started. Before you start : Below few Pre-requisites to get your VSTS Team Project registered…