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Author Archives: Jeff Levinson
Migrating from ClearQuest to TFS 2010
The Integration Mapping Platform is the preferred method for moving from CQ to TFS. Moving any other way is suicide. The integration platform, out of the box, provides great information on doing a one to one migration from CQ to … Continue reading
Manual Testing Code Coverage–Yeah!
Much asked for and incredibly helpful but missing in Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft Test Manager 2010 was code coverage for manual testing. In Visual Studio vNext (and Microsoft Test Manager vNext) it’s available out of the box. To enable … Continue reading
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Dev11 Preview is out–First in a series
Want to know what’s coming in TFS and VS vNext? Microsoft released a CTP of the tools at //Build and we’ve got them! We’re playing with the new features and wanted to share some of the cool new items with … Continue reading
When iterative development causes problems
I should start off by saying that I’m a big fan of Scrum “but”. Scrum imposes strict limits on a number of areas and absolutely requires a number of things being done. And by not doing them you are setting … Continue reading
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Constructing the iteration path in TFS
I had a situation where I had to go directly into the database and determine the work items that fell into a certain category and where they showed up on my long range plan (which iteration). It turns out that … Continue reading
First release of the community build tools
Microsoft MVP’s and community contributors announced the first release of the TFS 2010 Work Flow community build activities and Actions. The plan is to ship every two to three months after another update next month (August). Download the tools from … Continue reading
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TF51005: The query references a field that does not exist
So, I was uploading a process template the other day and got this error and could not figure out the reason why for the life of me: 2011-05-24T11:14:55 | Module: Work Item Tracking | Thread: 29 | The following query … Continue reading
TFS SP1 and Lab Management–wait for the QFE – FIXED
——————————————————————————————- Update: Microsoft released a QFE to address the issue outlined below. Here is a summary of the list of issues fixed by the QFE, to help you decide whether you should apply the QFE: Issue 1: When you run … Continue reading
Screenshot on Test Failure
Neeraja Reddy from the testing team at Microsoft just provided a pretty cool code snippet to perform a screencapture – programmatically of a failed test: [TestCleanup()] public void MyTestCleanup() { if (TestContext.CurrentTestOutcome == UnitTestOutcome.Failed) { Image img … Continue reading
Posted in Coded UI, Software Testing, Team Foundation Server
Tagged Automated Testing, Coded UI, Screen capture, Test Failure
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First post back–read the latest books
Okay, it’s been a very long while since I’ve blogged but one of my new co-works, Martin Hinshelwood, who won the ALM MVP of the year award (in part because he’s an awesome blogger). So, he re-did our blog site … Continue reading
Installing MOSS on Windows Server 2008 R2
You may be playing with the new TFS 2010 Beta 2 bits. You may also be playing with MOSS 2007. And you may be doing it all on Windows Server 2008 R2 which is a rocking operating system. However, you … Continue reading
Posted in Team Foundation Server, VS2010
Tagged extendvs, SharePoint 2007, TFS 2010, VS2010, Windows Server 2008 R2
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We’re Speaking At Tech Ed!
Both Steven Borg and I will be speaking for a combined total of 4 sessions and 1 pre-con. The pre-con session is PRC05: Improve Your Software Development: Real World Solutions with Team System 2008. We’ll be discussing solutions that our … Continue reading
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Issues with Alerts in TFS
Every once in a while we get customers who note issues with alerts. In some cases alerts are being duplicated, items don’t show up in the alerts editor, by default you can only see alerts for yourself, etc. This makes … Continue reading
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Practical Process Improvement (Part 5)
The first four posts (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4) dealt with working through a process for handling bugs and improving that process. But what about preventing bugs to begin with? In this part I’ll talk about some … Continue reading
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Tagged Process Improvement, Test Cases, Testing Requirements, Use Cases
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Practical Process Improvement (Part 4)
In the previous two posts (Part 2 and Part 3) I covered an ideal bug process and the metrics you gather from the process. In this post I’ll start talking about how to use those metrics to really improve the … Continue reading
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Tagged Lean Software Development, Process Improvement, Roles & Responsibilities
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