Friday! Today isn’t quite as VS and TFS heavy, but there’s a little bit peppered in. On with the links…
Agile is for Your Whole Business from Joel Semeniuk
I really liked this post from Joel on Agile software development and its application to your entire business. I’m actually a partner in a health and fitness business and have been thinking quite a bit about how to apply Agile concepts to what we do.
Test Case Management (TCM) Reporting – Frequently Asked Questions – Part 1 from Visual Studio Team Test
This is a great post answering a few frequently asked questions about Test Case management and reporting with Microsoft Test Manager and Visual Studio 2010. Using reports and data effectively seems intuitive, but its been my experience that most teams are very ineffective at not only gathering effective quantifiers to manage their team but then using that data once they have it.
Anatomy of a Good Bug Report from Tim Heuer
Tim shows us the anatomy of a good bug report by describing what she be in it, which fields should be required, and what a good bug report looks like. I worked for a company many moons ago that rewrote it’s “bug template” multiple times to overcome issues where people weren’t entering good data in bugs. In reality, the biggest impediment to creating and using bug reports wasn’t the specifics of its contents but rather the discipline of the team to enter effective data and then use it. So standardize on something (like Tim’s recommendations) and then actually use the damn thing.
Using the HTML 5 File API to Read the file Contents from The Problem Solver
It’s post like this that make me want to drop everything and focus entirely on HTML 5. Here, we get a look at reading file contents using the HTML 5 FileReader API.
How We Review Code from Lee Winder
Code Reviews are probably the least understood, and therefore least effectively quality control tool that teams use. How a code review is of extreme importance, and can take code reviews from being a complete waste of time to being the most important part of your development process. To understand the different types of code reviews and how they can be used, check out this great post describing different review strategies.
