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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 12:23 AM

Where Have I Been?

After trying to start up blogging, I failed to make it part of my regular routine. I think I found it hard to come up with topics. Working on a v1 product is fun, but it also means no existing customer base or products to blog about. I think I find it
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Friday, March 21, 2008 1:39 PM

MSDN Chat - April 9th

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:15 PM

Talking To Customers

At Microsoft, we have developers and testers. Those two disciplines make up the traditional engineering roles that most companies have. Where we seem to differ the most is in the project management and feature design role. Some companies call them business
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:07 PM

Web Test Variables

A customer emailed me today with a follow up question. The original question was about web tests recording AJAX-style client side scripting which initiates server queries. In VS2005 we didn't record those requests and our work around was to use Fiddler2
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Wednesday, March 05, 2008 2:43 PM

Ellen

Have you heard about Mort, Elvis, and Einstein? No, no... I mean in context of Visual Studio. :) We use these 3 personas to help guide feature development. I did a search for these names to see what has already been published. MS employees have already
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Sunday, March 02, 2008 2:10 PM

Customers

In the three years I've been working in the Developer Division at Microsoft, I've been impressed with the focus our divisional leaders have placed on customer focus. The benefit to customers is obvious. We're responsive to your concerns and it helps us
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 7:26 PM

Our Scrum Cycle

I've mentioned in a previous post about how our team has adopted Scrum and agile methodology... at least in spirit. :) I thought I'd share some of the specifics about how we're running it. This is primarily based on direction from our Engineering Manager,
Posted by drwill | 1 Comments
Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:04 PM

Engineering Lead

In the last six months, I've transitioned from a QA Lead to an Engineering Lead position. I'm still a persistent and tenacious driver of quality. Now I get to influence the development process as well. It is a great opportunity for me to optimize development
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:58 AM

Trying Scrum

Over the last several months, our team has decided to try all this "agile" stuff we keep hearing about. In large part, our new manager is responsible for putting us on this course but many of us were curious with what it would offer and fed up with some
Posted by drwill | 2 Comments
Thursday, July 26, 2007 1:50 PM

TechEd 2007 sessions posted

You can find the 2007 TechEd sessions posted at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb676080.aspx , including my talk on Web and Load testing in VS2008 (codenamed Orcas).
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007 10:43 AM

Visual Studio Team System Chat – August 1st

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Visual
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Wednesday, June 20, 2007 2:29 PM

Visual Studio Team System Chat – July 3rd

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the upcoming Orcas
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006 3:08 PM

Team System chat

Want to chat with members of the development team for Team System? We're holding a chat Wednesday the 6th of September at 10am Pacific. We love to hear from you and answer your questions. Below is the official chat invitation. Cheers, drwill Visual Studio
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Friday, July 15, 2005 5:43 PM

The Perfect Bug

http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsqualitytools/archive/2005/07/15/439454.aspx
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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:27 PM

Running Tests with Code Coverage

I posted in our team blog, with help from Dominic Hopton , about running tests with code coverage. You can view it here .
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