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February 2007 - Posts

Wednesday, February 28, 2007 6:42 AM

Upcoming VSTS Webcasts

An MS field group in Canada is putting together a series of web casts on VSTS to try to address areas of commonly asked questions (starting with licensing - one of the most commonly asked :)). Here's a blog post from Adam on the schedule - check'em out...
Posted by bharry | 0 Comments
Tuesday, February 27, 2007 8:43 AM

Managing Quality (part 5) - Dr. Watson

We receive a lot of quality feedback directly from customers and we use that information help direct our investments in bug fixing and testing. One of the tools we use to collect customer feedback is called "Dr. Watson". All of our applications are instrumented
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Saturday, February 24, 2007 6:33 AM

More TFS Channel 9 Videos

We've now got 4 recent TFS Channel 9 videos posted on MSDN. They are interviews with various team members across the TFS team. They are: Branching 101 with Doug Neumann - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Doug is one of the two group program managers
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Friday, February 23, 2007 1:21 PM

Yet More Team Foundation Server Power Tools

I went on vacation for a few days this week and lo and behold while I'm gone the team has released our next version of the TFS Power Tools (formerly Power Toys). We've numbered it Version 1.2 but I prefer to refer to it as the Feb '07 release. There's
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Thursday, February 15, 2007 10:52 AM

Case Studies for Visual Studio Team System

I frequently hear requests from customers for case studies that demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) of adopting Team System. We've just completed a couple and posted them on MSDN. Here are the two new ROI case studies: Global Manufacturer A global
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Sunday, February 11, 2007 8:06 AM

Managing Quality (part 4) - Stress Testing

The goal of our stress testing is to run an application under load for an extended period of time and capture all "failures". The purpose is to uncover race conditions, long term resource leaks, and bugs that only occur as the result of unexpected sequences
Posted by bharry | 9 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:49 AM

Problems installing TFS SP1

For a while now I've been seeing people struggling with some TFS SP1 install issues and I've been silent about it for too long. I was waiting for my team to investigate the issues and compile a summary. I appologize for not speaking up about it sooner.
Posted by bharry | 44 Comments
Thursday, February 08, 2007 7:41 AM

February DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

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
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007 10:36 AM

Managing Quality (part 3) - Performance Testing

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
Posted by bharry | 8 Comments
Monday, February 05, 2007 8:06 AM

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

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
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:01 AM

Managing Quality (part 2) - Automated Testing

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
Posted by bharry | 9 Comments
Saturday, February 03, 2007 2:30 PM

Managing Quality (part 1) - Build Quality

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
Posted by bharry | 10 Comments
Saturday, February 03, 2007 8:22 AM

TFS Certification Beta Exam

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
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Friday, February 02, 2007 1:02 PM

Our First Orcas perf results at load

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).
Posted by bharry | 8 Comments
Friday, February 02, 2007 5:58 AM

Daylight Savings Time Changes Coming

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
Posted by bharry | 8 Comments
Thursday, February 01, 2007 6:00 PM

Channel 9 Videos on Team Foundation Server

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 &
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