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Running win8 Metro style tests in TeamBuild

Nothing geeky... — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 06:30:58 GMT

As you might already know, VS 2011 Beta was announced a week back along with Win 8 consumer preview

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re: What is Test Driven Development? (TDD)

ArnonA — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 18:51:11 GMT

Hi Eran,

I know this is an old post, but I just saw it now :-)

One comment:

Step 11 (refactor), should also be between steps 5 and 6.

Also, with "don’t forget to add comments" in this step I disagree! The code and the test should be self-explanatory. Only in very rare cases where the code is inherently very complex (e.g. when you're implementing a complicated algorithm) or if you're doing a "hack" to workaround a problem that you don't have a better way to solve it is OK to write a comment about it.

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re: VSS to Team System Migration Checklist

Data Migration — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 15:29:10 GMT

Oh ! great Thanks for sharing such good stuff..

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Create TFS Work Items Using Outlook 2007

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TF60008: VSS database version older than 6.0 – When migrating from VSS to TFS

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I was performing a conversion from Visual Source Safe to Team Foundation Server, using SRL’s legendary

re: How “Get Latest Version” Really Works in TFS Source Control?

Michael — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:09:12 GMT

How about this scenario that happens on my machine once a month! I get latest version and ALL files on my machine except the solution and project files get automatically deleted from the disk!

The only way to fix it is to totally delete the solution from the workspace and download it again.

re: TF30224 error when creating a new team project

Roman Ogolikhin — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:40:31 GMT

Instead of uninstall of TFS service pack, you can install VS service pack again.

It helped to me.

re: The connection between Software Configuration Management and Environments Management

Valentine Waturuocha — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:07:39 GMT

IT Environments Management is probably one of the most misundertood concepts in terms of the part it plays within the IT Organisation as a whole especially its contribution to the success of an IT Project in General. Most Programme, Project and Test Managers in running Projects sooner or later come across IT Environment related issues that can severly delay the delivery of their Project. Here is my atrempt at a high level in defining IT Environments Managements in its entirety.

IT Environments Management service clearly contributes to improving the overall quality of IT Software development and support through the lifecycle. IT Environments Management encompasses a set of best practices proposed to provide an effective, end to end management service for test software platforms or development environments. The software test bed or development environment could consist of a client server application, Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), middleware, interfaces, daemons, customised processes (written in any software programming language), FTP utilities etc.

Functional test phases such as Unit, Integration, Acceptance, all manner of performance or non functional testing and development phases all require IT Environments.

The primary clients of an IT Environments Management Function are Software Project and Test teams.

The service will cater for the following;

• Manage the creation, build, upgrade and support for all test and development Application Environments.

• Clearly defining auditable processes of allocating application environments, multiple bookings or shared usage, code upgrades, service level agreement, support, decommissioning and re-allocation.

• Manage data refreshes, collating test data and assist in the anonimising of production or other sensitive data if necessary.

• Supply, provision and manage all Application Environment Requirements from the Project and Test teams all through the software development cycle of a project.

• Assist the Project in establishing their application environment requirements, provide expert knowledge on an IT environment’s set up, connectivity and serve as a guide to the projects in using the environment in the most efficient manner.

• Review and contribute to the Project Initiation Document (PID) ensuring that the IT Environments Management function and its deliverables are clearly defined and captured.

• Create and maintain project plans to assist in managing all activities required to successfully carry out major code upgrades to all application environments.

• Provide reports on usage/utilisation, availability, forward planning and schedules.

IT Environments Management is clearly a new and emerging area which has arisen due to the following reasons:

• The increased IT Environment requirements for many companies who have several software projects running at any one time.

• The increased levels of interfacing and connectivity between several systems in most organisations also known as spaghetti. For example in some companies more than thirty systems are interfaced or connected with each other exchanging files and data flows etc and has meant that any changes to one system most times could require a change to many others and requiring large numbers of test and development IT environments.

• Increased awareness and more commitment to carrying out rigorous software testing especially with more companies opting to use the Prince 2 methodology and ITIL Framework

A typical IT Environments Management tool should be able to provide the following services: environments bookings and allocation, manage multiple bookings and re-curring bookings. Provide reporting on usage, availability, interconnectivity or interfacing environments, utilisation and conflict reporting etc. It must also serve as a repository of all information on an IT Environment to include Host Server names, Hardware Type, Operating System, IP Address and Interfaces if any.

The ideal background for an IT Environments Management personnel could be Software Development, Application or Technical Support, Infrastructure Project Management, Configuration and Release Management etc but must be exposed to at least the ITIL Framework, Client – Server development, System Architecture/Design, Networks, TCP/IP and Messaging systems etc.

Terminologies defined & explained:

Application Environment – A single test bed or development platform instance of a software application or system that can also be used for all manner of functional and non functional testing or could be the production instance (production environment). It could also be large, medium or small which normally refers to the size of data the RDBMS will be holding depending on the type of testing it is required for.

Integrated Application environments (also known as stripes): More than one application environment connected to each other also communicating with each other and exchanging files and data flows. Connections could be via Microsoft ODBC, via FTP, TCP/IP, daemons, middleware, defined interfaces and database links etc.

Anonimising of data

Anonimising of data refers to the manipulation or transformation of production data held in the RDBMS such as Oracle, SQL Server, Sybase, Microsoft Access, DB2 etc to be used in a test or development Application Environment ensuring that for example real names, addresses, date of birth, bank account details and other sensitive information or data is transformed to dummy data.

The data is transformed whilst still maintaining its defining characteristics in a Relational Database Management System table such as character length (Char 25 or Varchar 50) etc to ensure its usage in testing or development is not compromised and that the integrity is maintained. For example a valid name such as John Smith defined as Char 10 will now be updated in the table to become possibly a unique character string XXXXXXYYYY (comprising of ten characters including the space between John and Smith).

Pipe cleaning

Pipe cleaning caters for the all the activities required to be carried out before a test or development environment is handed over to the Test or Project team and includes disk clear down, archiving and purging logs, importing test data, killing off rogue processes, resetting passwords, changing environment settings, end to end connectivity or integration tests to make sure everything is working okay.

Depending on the complexity of the system a checklist of activities may be required and ticked off capturing all the checks and tests that have been completed on an environment or an integrated suite of environments prior to its hand over to a Project or Test team.

Smoke Test

A smoke test describes an initial end to end test of all the integrated or even stand alone environments very possibly using dummy data and carried out by the support teams who have created or built the environment or by the test team when the environment is handed over.

Author: Valentine Waturuocha MSC

Freelance IT Environments Project Manager

Email Address: waturuochav@hotmail.com

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Leon dobe | Sickfightgear

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Running win8 Metro style tests in TeamBuild

?????? ?????????????????? ???????????????? ???????? Version Control ?? TFS | [MinistrBob].[?????? ???????????????? ????????????]

re: What is Test Driven Development? (TDD)

?????????? ???? ?????????? ?? TFS 2010 » ITbananas

Code edition god library name

re: VSS to Team System Migration Checklist

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Create TFS Work Items Using Outlook 2007

TF60008: VSS database version older than 6.0 – When migrating from VSS to TFS

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re: TF30224 error when creating a new team project

re: The connection between Software Configuration Management and Environments Management