Here are a few that just dropped this month. They are so new you may not see them in your instance of Azure DevOps yet, as they roll out gradually. Actually some of the images below are taken from release notes because the feature has not shown up in my Azure DevOps yet. 🙂

Azure Boards — Condensed card display.

I love this new feature. Adding information to the cards in on your Kanban board can be so useful. However it’s easy to get carried away and the card ends up very big.

A new toggle switch has been added called Collapse card fields. Highlighted in the image below, and turned off.

Click that button and all the extra info is hidden and you just see the work item with it’s ID and description.

Azure Repos — Auto-complete pull requests by default

I have always loved the auto-complete feature in Azure Repos. For those not familiar, you can create a PR and set it to auto-complete. Which means after all the checks have passed and it’s been approved by reviewers, the PR will be automatically closed and merged. No need for you to come back later and merge the PR.

Well now you can make this the default setting either for the whole project or for each Repo individually.

When this is enabled, every new PR will automatically have Set auto-complete turned on. When disabled, new PRs will start with Set auto-complete turned off, and authors can choose to enable it manually.

Azure Test Plans — Exploratory Testing

As you may have read in past posts, I love Azure Test Plans. I also love the Exploratory Testing tool. Microsoft recently updated the test run user interface, it was previously terrible and ignored for too long. It’s much better now, perhaps a post about that is required. Well the exploratory Test runs was also terrible, as it was just tucked away in with test runs.

As of this month it has it’s own place of honour in the main navigation bar under Test Plans.