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.
Presenting Visual Studio ALM and upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 in production – Done
I was actually a little surprised by one of my customers this week. I was there to help them finalise their deployment of TFS 2010 (that they were currently using only for Source Control) and to present the features to them and ended up upgrading them to TFS 2012 as well! The first thing that […]
Unit Testing against the Team Foundation Server 2012 API
I have been working a lot recently with the new Team Foundation Service (TFS Preview) that Microsoft is providing in Azure. I was building an application called TFS Field Annotate that allows you to spelunk a fields changes. One of the problems I ran into is how to Unit Test this. I have been doing […]
What’s in a burndown?
I was recently in Park City, Utah to teach the Professional Scrum Foundations course and i just got an email from one of the students. As I want to help everyone I will answer here: If I recall from our training, you suggested teams could burn down their sprints using points or hours. In your […]
Is ALM a useful term?
I was asked this question by Robert Myers for a “paper” and I think that it is an important one. I started to answer in that little textbox that LinkedIn give you and I got a little carried away. I guess I am an writing mode >>Do you think ALM is a useful term? Yes, […]
Scrum-damentals Webcast on 17th February 2012
We often speak about the basics of scrum and rarely get into the problems and I wanted a session that represented the “next steps” after deciding that this Scrum thing was a good idea. I will, hopefully, be hitting this session at those that already understand Scrum, but are looking for a little implementation knowledge […]
An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010
Its hard for developers to work with testers and its hard for testers to work with developers. There are many tools out there to help teams break down those barriers between them and I really like both the features and workflow of Microsoft Test Manager (MTM). While I am not a tester, I am a […]
Can you really commit to delivering work?
There has been a subtle but targeted change in the wording used as part of Scrum. There has bee a move away from commitment towards forecasting what will be completed. Why is this happening and what does it mean to my team? There has long been a subtle lack of transparency between the Product Owner […]