Application lifecycle management with Office 2013 on Windows 8

Because of the compatibility with ARM and the new Windows 8 touchscreen experience you would imagine that Office has undergone a rather complete overall and you would be right. With Office 2013 you get a fully touch capable immersive experience that is designed to work well on both the Tablet and the Desktop.

Automated Testing in a modern application lifecycle

If we are building software in a modern application lifecycle there is no way that we would be able to deliver modern applications without some form of automated testing. Automated testing is the one thing that makes sure that we are able to deliver working software that meets the quality bar while still keeping the […]

Testing in the modern application lifecycle

Manual Testing in this new age of the modern application lifecycle has taken on new complexities that make it even more difficult to track and identify which tests are passing, which are failing and to which environment that data should be associated. Update 2013-02-19 – Featured in ALM Mag Vol 1 Issue 2. If you want to subscribe […]

Virtual Labs in the modern application lifecycle

In the world of modern application development we have many more moving parts than we ever did before and it has become increasingly difficult for organisations to effectively simulate their environments with virtual labs. Add to that the demand from Development Teams to be able to have many times the environments that they ever had […]

Requirement management in the modern application lifecycle with TFS

Managing requirements is hard and no single tool can tell you how to achieve that within your organisation. To that end, Visual Studio 2012 TFS stays out of the “where do your requirements come from” world and firmly in the “i have my requirements.. .what now?” world and indeed the tools built on top of the requirement management system stay in one niche.

My Team Foundation Server system accounts are changing? What do I do?

If you have multiple service accounts for TFS 2012 and you are in a corporation chances are that two things are true: Your accounts are managed out-with your control in Active Directory They will expire every 90 daysIt is however worth asking your IT department if they can set different expiry rules for service accounts […]

Install SharePoint 2013 on Windows Server 2012 without a domain

Any setup of Team Foundation Server is not complete until you have at least tried t work with SharePoint. While I have many customers that like to stay away from  SharePoint I also have many that make it an integral part of not just their TFS install, but their corporate network, offerings and culture. note: […]

Upgrading from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 Overview

I have not thought about an upgrade from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 is quite a while as most if not all of my customers have already made the move to 2010. However one of my colleagues asked if I had done one recently and well… not in a while. There are really two main […]

Installing Office 2013 on Windows 8

If you have not already seen the Office 2013 Preview has been made available on MSDN and on the Microsoft site. The install is ridiculously easy and includes Outlook 2013, Word 2013 and Communicator 2013. These tend to be the only parts of Office that I use, unless I an connecting to work item tracking […]