Enabling the Disabled Manage Test Controller window in Visual Studio When Using After Configuring a New Test Rig

This post discusses the issue that testers face while using the load test rig created with Visual Studio for the first time.After configuring the test controller and test agent for the test rig, you might need to track the status of the controller and agents. For that purpose, you can use Manage Test Controller section of the visual studio.

Prerequisites:
Load test rig configured using several machines

Resolving reading mal-formatted XML with PowerShell

This post explains a small issue faced while reading the XML configuration file values using a PowerShell script. You may have experienced the same issue while reading XML files with PowerShell. So, this post would help you to learn how we can resolve the issue.

Our requirement was to get the content of the App.config file and App.dll.config file to a PowerShell variable. It was possible to get the content of the App.config file to a PowerShell variable with following command.$appConfig is the App.config file path.

Updating App config in Azure Pipeline Using Octopus Variable set

This post discuss how to update App.Config in Azure pipeline using  Octopus variable set.

Prerequisites:

• Octopus environments
• Octopus variable sets
• Octopus project with variable sets attached

Let's identify how we configure a project and variable sets in the Octopus. Following image shows the Octopus variable and values defined with the scope.