UML, DSL & Software Factories Stuart Kent , a Senior Program Manager on Keith Short 's team under Steve Cook (who recently appeared at the UK Architect Forum ), has a post ( UML, DSLs and software factories: let those analogies flow... ) in which...

Creating a Check-In Policy Jim Presto from the Team Foundation Version Control team is creating a series of blog posts ( Create Policy - Information ) that discusses how to create check-in policies. He posted step 1 today ( Create Policy - Step 1 ). To...

Much Ado About DSL's, Software Factories and Modeling As Harry Pierson points out in this post ( Architecture Events ), there are several events coming up that focus on stuff like DSL's, Software Factories and Modeling. What Type of Tests Could a Tester...

REMINDER : VERY FIRST TEAM SYSTEM WEBCAST ON THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23rd! For more information, see: MSDN Webcast: Extensibility in Visual Studio 2005 Team System—Level 200 Team System in the News ADTmag.com | Microsoft embraces ALM with upcoming Visual...

Be sure to add this to your calendar for this Thursday (tomorrow) if you're interested in Visual Studio 2005 Team System Extensibility. To understand the extensibility architecture is to understand the underpinnings of Team Foundation's architecture since...

The Life of Brian First off, congrats to Brian Harry - as of today, he's now the Product Unit Manager (PUM) for Visual Studio Team Foundation. I couldn't find a link for a good description on what a PUM is, but just understand that at Microsoft the Development...

Moving to Software Factories The new Ask Burton column is now available. This installment is from Jack Greenfield and Keith Short and discusses the movement to software factories . Team System Install Success James Snape had some trouble getting his Team...

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison I spent some time this weekend troubleshooting a variety of installation failures to better understand the trouble some people are encountering. A few were the result of...

Why Unit Testing? While writing up my blog post yesterday , I had this item from Jim Arnold queued up for posting. I originally flagged it because at first glance I saw that it was on Team System's unit testing feature. After reading through it and seeing...

Team System Web & Load Tests Tim Weaver has been experimenting with the web and load testing features of Team System . In this post, he talks about some of stuff he tried. A few weeks ago, Josh Christie provided some fundamentals about web tests ...

Building a Test-Driven Development Example According to Jonathan Cogley , Test-Driven Development (TDD) is gaining in popularity . James Newkirk , Peter Provost and Brian Button are working on a new TDD example named Bookmark Collection. You can catch...

Trying a new format today. Is it better with or without the quotes from other blogs & sites? Stuart Kent is back from vacation . He's blogging about an upcoming tutorial he's giving at the UML conference in Lisbon with Alan Wills . He also has an...

YABFVSNC (Yet Another Blogger from Visual Studio North Carolina) - Adam Singer ( RSS ), an SDE/T on Team System Source Control (aka Hatteras), has joined the team in our North Carolina offices and has started blogging: Hello, world My name is Adam Singer...

Here is what's new today in 475 characters or less - Michael Lehman has Team System running on three Virtual PC's in Virtual Server 2005, Alex Torone needs your help, Roy Osherove shares his recent Test-Driven Development success, Jay Bazuzi compares...

Alex Torone, a Program Manager on the Team Architect product team, would like your feedback on the custom settings feature in Team Architect (aka Whitehorse). Specifically, he'd like to know how you anticipate using this feature and if there's anything...

I meant to include this in yesterday's post, but it slipped through the cracks. Information Week published an article on Monday that discusses development tool support for outsourcing, which mentions Visual Studio Team System (along with a few other tool...

Korby Parnell has a step-by-step guide to reporting Team System bugs using the MSDN Product Feedback Center (aka Ladybug): How To: Report Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Bugs If you get a chance to install and play around with the Community Technology...

A weekend update... Jason Anderson , a Program Manager on the Enterprise Development and Test (EDT) team, has a great post that provides an overview of static analysis (or as some call it, code analysis): Visual Studio Team System: Overview of Static...

Are you using the latest release of Visual Studio Team System ? Tell me what you think . Here's an important tip for this release - if you have Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 installed, uninstall it before installing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh. Also...

Following EricGu 's lead, I went ahead and set up an alert for my Visual Studio Team System feed . Now you can receive notification of new Team System posts by desktop alert, cell, PDA, or email. As Eric notes, this may seem of marginal use to people...