Brian Harry's Blog

February DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

February 8, 2007 Feb 8, 2007 02/8/07

Brian Harry

Overall, it's been a pretty uneventful month for the dogfood server.  The biggest milestone is that we are now consistently over 1,000 active users on the system.  Files & Folders are approaching the 100M mark and should hit it within the next few months for sure. I've added a new statistic this month - Merge history.  That'...

Managing Quality (part 3) – Performance Testing

February 6, 2007 Feb 6, 2007 02/6/07

Brian Harry

If you read my blog much, then you know performance and scale are near and dear to my heart.  If you read back far enough in my blog, you'll find a bunch of information on my philosphy of performance testing and what we've done for TFS.  I'm going to repeat some of it here but if want more detail, I've included a map of previous ...

Update on TFS and the upcoming Daylight Savings Time changes in the US

February 5, 2007 Feb 5, 2007 02/5/07

Brian Harry

We continue to make progress testing TFS for the upcoming Daylight Savings Time changes.  In an earlier post, I included details and links to information about the change and its affect on other Microsoft software.  Our testing has uncovered the following 2 issues.  Neither of these issues are particularly serious as ...

Managing Quality (part 2) – Automated Testing

February 4, 2007 Feb 4, 2007 02/4/07

Brian Harry

As I described in my last article, our first layer of quality assessment is build "scouting", designed to do a shallow but broad pass across the product to determine if it's worthwhile to proceed with deeper testing. Our next layer is more thorough automated testing runs.  Many would call this "functional" testing but words in the testing...

Managing Quality (part 1) – Build Quality

February 3, 2007 Feb 3, 2007 02/3/07

Brian Harry

Over the past several months my blog has transformed into more of an announcement forum.  And while that's a service I'm happy to provide, I'm not satisfied with it.  I want to exchange ideas and share thoughts about topics all (ok, maybe many) software developers and teams care about. It'll probably take the form of talking ...

TFS Certification Beta Exam

February 3, 2007 Feb 3, 2007 02/3/07

Brian Harry

We continue to work on our TFS training offerings.  Rob Caron has just announced our next step down this path - a Beta of a new TFS Certification exam.  If you are in the business of development process consulting, this could give you a leg up.  Check it out if you are interested.Brian...

Our First Orcas perf results at load

February 2, 2007 Feb 2, 2007 02/2/07

Brian Harry

I'm just giddy today.  We've been running performance tests for a while on Orcas and I've reported some of the great results on my blog.  We've also been running stress tests (running a server under heavy load for an extended period of time to measure reliability).  We haven't started doing load testing yet (similar to stress ...

Daylight Savings Time Changes Coming

February 2, 2007 Feb 2, 2007 02/2/07

Brian Harry

As you probably know, the beginning and ending dates of daylight savings time are changing this year.  I'm writing to inform you of the implications of this change for Team Foundation Server. We are testing around this change and doing code reviews to ensure that we don't have any issues.  We are not 100% complete but at this point ...

Channel 9 Videos on Team Foundation Server

February 1, 2007 Feb 1, 2007 02/1/07

Brian Harry

A few weeks ago we taped several MSDN Channel 9 videos on TFS.  Over the next few days, we will be releasing them on the Web.  The first is available now - an interview with Doug Neumann (Group Program Manager for TFS Version Control, Build and Admin & Ops) on branching and merging with TFS: https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost....

SourceSafe on Vista

January 26, 2007 Jan 26, 2007 01/26/07

Brian Harry

Richard Berg has some news to share about SourceSafe and Vista support and he asked that I help get some eyes on it.  If you are interested in SourceSafe, please take a look at: Thanks Brian...