New Team System Stuff - 2004-12-02
Go away for a week and the queue is filled once again. My apologies for stuff that may be old news for you…
Team System
- Dave Bost follows-up with posts on how his Team System installation went:
- You can also read how it went for Geoff Appleby (who discovered that there was a weird dependency mentioned in Korby’s blog on VSS for Team Foundation Version Control, which is now resolved): “A decision was made this week that myself and a friend would try to install the VS2005 beta refresh and get the team system bits up and going.” – Geoff Appleby (I've got Team System Working. Now what?)
- “I have to tell you I am impressed by the guys at MS - the level of thought that miust go in to such a product, puts anything I ever did to shame.” – Moshe Eshel (.NET Deep dive (Microsoft Israel Dev Convention) Impressions)
- “I am gonna give a MSDN chat session as a part of Microsoft India community initiatives on December 15th.” – Sudhakar Sadasivuni (My MSDN Chat session on Visual Stuido Team System 2005)
Test-Driven Development (TDD) & Testing in General
- “The biggest benefit of TDD is the process. Reusing past successes while deviating from the TDD process appears to be counter productive since the process *is* the benefit.” – Jonathan Cogley (“Copy and Paste Programming” – the TDD way.)
- “Ever since I sat in with Chris and had an awesome demo on Team System (go check out the personal demo I got on Channel 9, or read my blog entry about it) I have been interested in building a better process here.” – Dana Epp (A look inside how Microsoft approaches Testing)
- “IRISMSF will include a native support for the new Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System when it is released to the market by Microsoft. IRISMSF can be used to develop customized MSF-based process templates that can be deployed using Visual Studio 2005 Team System.” – Osellus :: Products :: IRIS msf with cmm, microsoft team system, internal process [via Richard Hundhausen (IRISMSF)]
- “This is a live blogging session from the recent Developer Testing Conference. The lecture was about Developer Testing in Google and this is only part of it…” – Roy Osherove (Test Driven Development proves useful at Google)
DSL Tools, Software Factories & Architecture
- “Sergey Dmitriev has a great article on what he, and others, have called Language Oriented Programming. Go read it, it’s a great piece. As we're heavily engaged in building Domain Specific Language tools at present we're obviously swimming in the same sea. However, I'm keen to look at LOP and DSLs as only one aspect of the bigger picture - I'm especially reticent to attach too strongly to any meme that appears to put the focus solely on programming.” – Gareth Jones (Language-oriented or Metadata-driven?)
- “…what if the development expertise of whiz-bang developers, or the domain expertise of business managers, could be instantiated — i.e., encapsulated — and widely distributed, or reused, throughout an organization?” – Stephen Swoyer (ADTMag : Software factories come into modern times)
- “Read a funny post recently, "If Building Architects had to work like Software Architects". You may have seen it before. It got me thinking again about the area of requirements. Having recently completed some house building work where I had commissioned a building Architect it started me thinking.” – Bill O’Brien (Non functional requirements and building architects.)
- “…you should expect your design to change along the way as you learn more. But without spending time on design, you are likely to make some errors of architecture that will be difficult or costly to fix.” – Eric Gunnerson (Design up-front vs. along-the-way)
Project Management
- “I have been a software professional for about 15 years and I have lead and/or architected a number of them. Here is a list of the top 10 things to do and/or avoid. Please add to the list if you are so inclined.” – Mathew Nolton (Top 10 Things to do on a software project (err 9 things...I got tired).)
- “I came upon this weblog via TestDriven.Net. After sifting through the posts a bit I added it to my RSS subscription list. Recommended. It's a definite "Agile development" themed blog, and has a lot of experience and real life lessons to learn from.” – Roy Osherove (Nice Agile blog)
Other
- “…as of 6pm, Nov 19, the Developer Division hit the ‘Zero Bug Bounce’ (ZBB) milestone for Beta2 of Visual Studio 2005” – S. Somasegar (Zero Bug Bounce)
- “…Microsoft did get more 'transparent' in 2004.” – Mary Jo Foley (The Year in Review: Microsoft Opens Up)
- Iain McDonald on development process:
- Upcoming webcast: MSDN Architecture Webcast: Governance and Compliance in Service-Oriented Solutions—Level 200 ~ Friday, December 03, 2004 8:00 AM (GMT-08:00) Pacific Time [via John Evdemon]
- https://www.vsteamsystem.com/ ???