Rob Caron : New Team System Stuff

New Team System Stuff - 2005-02-15

Visual Studio Team System

Paul D. Murphy offers his evaluation of a recent build of Team System in this post (Oh man is Team System sweet).
I have a post in which Soma explains the general philosophy behind Team System (Soma: Philosophy Behind Team System) and the initial list of Team System sessions at TechEd 2005 USA (Team System Sessions at TechEd 2005 in Orlando).

Architecture

Harry Pierson makes the connection between software factories and frameworks and offers his thoughts in this post (Thoughts on Factories).
Also, see this post from Harry, which links to one from Steve Maine that addresses the services as contracts vs. services as code debate.
Martin Fowler on enhancing agility through discipline (AbundantMutation).
Adam Gallant has posted the deployment report he promised (For Rob, Thanks for the Reminder!).

Development

Steve Carroll has a post that takes a look at the inner workings of code coverage and explains the difference between tracking coverage of code blocks vs. lines of source code (Line Coverage).
Steve is seeking your feedback about how you use code coverage metrics and how you determine when your code is adequately covered (Quick Survey: Coverage metrics).

Events

Tim Hibbard has a review of Tech Expo 2005, where Jon Box presented on Team System (Tech Expo 2005).
James Asher likes what he saw of Team System at VSLive! last week (VSLive – Monday).
SPA2005 session in Bedfordshire, England this April: Software Factories: domain-specific process, tools, and language presented by Alan Cameron Wills & Gareth Jones.
Also in the UK, you can learn more about Team System from Technical Roadshow 2005. See this post from Eileen Brown (Technical Roadshow 2005 - UK dates).

In the News

Project Management

David Boschman has a post about a diagram Sam Newman posted yesterday that illustrates the Agile Release Process and then points out how Team System provides most of the pieces shown (The Agile Release Process).
Jake Lawlor has a post that dives into what’s involved with using an agile process to manage your software development project (Portrait Of An Agile Development Process) [via Wayne Allen].
David Anderson has posted what promises to be the first in a series of posts about the Declaration of Interdependence (Thoughts on DOI #1 - Flow).

Team Software Development

Jason Barile, the lead tester for Team Foundation version control wants to know, What does your SCC system do (or not do) today you wish it would do differently?
If you’re using the December CTP, Adam Singer (a developer on Team Foundation version control) wants to know how you prefer to use version control – command line or integrated (Weapon of Choice)?
And Elyasse Elyacoubi, who works on setup for Team Foundation, bravely asks the question, How was your experience setting up VSTF [Visual Studio Team Foundation]?

Testing

Johan Danforth prefers a self-mixed testing cocktail, taking the parts of TDD that he finds valuable along with other approaches (TDD: Who is testing the tester?).

Other

Kent Sharkey has a post that links to a webcast from Scott Guthrie that shows how we build software in Developer Division here at Microsoft (Building software at Microsoft).