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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 testing runs.  Many would call this "functional" testing but words in the testing...

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 developers and teams care about. It'll probably take the form of talking ...

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 out if you are interested.Brian...

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).  We haven't started doing load testing yet (similar to stress ...

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 ensure that we don't have any issues.  We are not 100% complete but at this point ...

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 & Ops) on branching and merging with TFS: https://channel9.msdn.com/showpost....