Rob Caron : New Team System Stuff - 2005-02-08

New Team System Stuff - 2005-02-08

Visual Studio Team System

Willy-Peter Schaub is looking to hear from anyone that has successfully installed the December CTP of Team System (VS.NET 2005 - Looking at the December CTP Release). Drop by his blog and let him know what you think. With Beta 2 around the corner, I think he should give the December CTP a try to get familiar with it. By the time he’s ready to do some serious poking around, Beta 2 should be upon us.

Architecture

It looks like Bill Ryan is having trouble getting started with the Distributed System Designers in Team Architect (Team System thinks I'm a l0s3r). If you want help ramping-up on this technology, be sure to try the walkthroughs we wrote for this purpose. You’ll find them in the MSDN Library (if you installed it). UPDATE: Ali Pasha has a post on this, too (DSD Walkthroughs - Okay I've got the December CTP, now how do I start using the designers again?).

Development

Welcome to blogging, Ian Huff. Ian is a developer working on the profiling tools in Team System. In his first post, he pulls out all of the stops and gives a great introduction to these tools (Using the new Visual Studio Team System Profiler in the IDE - Part 1: Starting a new performance session).

DSL Tools & Software Factories

Just a quick note here – the December CTP of the DSL Tools only works with Beta 1 or Beta 1 Refresh. It is not compatible with the December CTP of Team System.

Events

VSLive! is underway in San Francisco. Yesterday, Eric Lee and Ajay Sudan presented on Team System. Here are some posts with summaries of those presentations:

See the last couple of paragraphs of this post (If I tell you, I have to...) from Dennis v/d Stelt that addresses this nay-sayer article (Is Burton Really Ready?) from last summer in CRN.

In the News

Here’s some media coverage from VSLive!:

Project Management

Now you can sign the Declaration of Interdependence, which was announced in this post (Declaration of Interdependence) by David Anderson.

Testing

Sara Ford explores the differences of automated and manual testing, and when to which, in this post (Automation Testing versus Manual Testing Guidelines).
Patrick Steele reflects back on NUnit’s origins in JUnit and the rise of attributes in unit testing for .NET (Unit Testing is not difficult).
Scott Bellware applauds Brad Wilson on a comment he made in the TDD Yahoo! group about not testing internals, even though you can in Team System (Great Comment on Testing Internals by Brad Wilson). What do you think?

Published Tuesday, February 08, 2005 9:34 AM by Rob Caron

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