Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 - Sam Guckenheimer, Neno Loje

Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012

Adopting Agile Software Practices: From Backlog to Continuous Feedback
Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2012 | 3rd edition
Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc (Verlag)
978-0-321-86487-1 (ISBN)
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Use Visual Studio® Team Foundation Server 2012 and Agile Methods to Deliver Higher Value Software Faster

 

This is the definitive guide to applying agile development and modern software engineering practices with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012—Microsoft’s complementary Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform. Written by the Microsoft Visual Studio  product owner and a long-time Team Foundation Server implementation specialist,  it focuses on solving real development challenges, systematically eliminating waste, improving transparency, and delivering better software more quickly and painlessly.

 

Coverage includes

• Accelerating the “flow of value” to customers, with a transparent backlog, PowerPoint Storyboarding, VS 2012 feedback requests, and a “usability lab” right into your customers’ hands

• Driving quality upstream to uncover hidden architectural patterns, ensure cleaner code, fix multiple recurring “cloned” bugs at once, ensure the definition of done with continuous integration and deployment  in a reliable build process

• Eliminating “no repro” bugs with VS 2012’s six powerful mechanisms for more accurate fault identification  and use of virtualized test environments

• Using Scrum or other Agile methods with Process Templates effectively across distributed teams in large organization by automating burndowns and dashboards to identify “early warning signals” of emerging  problems with quality or maintainability

• Staying in the groove by storing the state of your work and environment with shelvesets, to let you  handle interruptions smoothly

• Leveraging VS 2012’s new support for multiple Microsoft and open source unit testing frameworks in  your IDE and continuous integration pipeline

• Performing exploratory testing to uncover bugs in surprising places and testing immersive Windows 8 apps

• Rapidly improving team development and collaboration with the hosted Team Foundation Service

 

Whatever your development role, this book will help you apply modern software development practices using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 to focus on what really matters: building soft­ware that begins delivering exceptional value sooner and keeps delighting customers far into the future.

 

Sam Guckenheimer, Product Owner for the Microsoft Visual Studio product line strategy, acts as chief customer advocate, responsible for end-to-end external design of new Visual Studio releases. He has 30 years’ experience as software architect, developer, tester, product manager, project manager, and executive. Before joining Microsoft, he was Director of Product Line Strategy at Rational Software Corporation, now the Rational Division of IBM. He holds  five patents on software lifecycle tools, is a frequent conference speaker, and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard.  Neno Loje has been an independent Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) consultant and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) specialist for seven years, helping many companies establish team environments and development processes with Visual Studio.

Forewords xii

Preface xvi

Acknowledgments   xxiii

About the Authors   xxiv

1 The Agile Consensus 1

The Origins of Agile 2

Agile Emerged to Handle Complexity 2

Empirical Process Models 4

A New Consensus   5

Scrum   6

An Example 12

Self-Managing Teams   14

Summary   15

Endnotes 16

2 Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio   19

Visual Studio and Process Enactment   20

Process Templates   21

Process Cycles and TFS 24

Inspect and Adapt 37

Task Boards 37

Kanban 38

Fit the Process to the Project 39

Summary 42

Endnotes 43

3 Product Ownership 45

What Is Product Ownership?    46

Scrum Product Ownership 50

Release Planning 51

Qualities of Service 69

How Many Levels of Requirements 73

Summary 75

Endnotes 75

4 Running the Sprint 77

Empirical over Defined Process Control 78

Scrum Mastery 80

Use Descriptive Rather Than Prescriptive Metrics 86

Answering Everyday Questions with Dashboards   91

Choosing and Customizing Dashboards 98

Using Microsoft Outlook to Manage the Sprint 100

Summary 101

Endnotes 101

5 Architecture 103

Architecture in the Agile Consensus 104

Exploring Existing Architectures 107

Summary 124

Endnotes 126

6 Development 129

Development in the Agile Consensus 130

The Sprint Cycle 131

Keeping the Codebase Clean 132

Staying “in the Groove”    139

Detecting Programming Errors Early 143

Catching Side Effects 154

Preventing Version Skew 162

Making Work Transparent 170

Summary 171

Endnotes 173

7 Build and Lab 175

Cycle Time   176

Defining Done 177

Continuous Integration   179

Automating the Build 181

Automating Deployment to Test Lab   186

Elimination of Waste 199

Summary 203

Endnotes   204

8 Test 207

Testing in the Agile Consensus   208

Testing Product Backlog Items 211

Actionable Test Results and Bug Reports 215

Handling Bugs 223

Which Tests Should Be Automated?    223

Automating Scenario Tests 224

Load Tests, as Part of the Sprint 228

Production-Realistic Test Environments 234

Risk-Based Testing 236

Summary 238

Endnotes 239

9 Lessons Learned at Microsoft Developer Division 241

Scale 242

Business Background 243

Improvements after 2005 247

Results 256

Acting on the Agile Consensus 256

Lessons Learned 258

The Path to Visual Studio 2012 262

Endnotes   263

10 Continuous Feedback 265

Agile Consensus in Action 266

Continuous Feedback Allows Build/Measure/Learn 267

There’s No Place Like Production 269

Summary 271

Endnotes 274

Index 275

Verlagsort New Jersey
Sprache englisch
Maße 181 x 232 mm
Gewicht 516 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge
Mathematik / Informatik Informatik Software Entwicklung
ISBN-10 0-321-86487-5 / 0321864875
ISBN-13 978-0-321-86487-1 / 9780321864871
Zustand Neuware
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