Tomorrow (June 24th), I’m speaking at the Atlanta .NET User Group. The meeting starts at 6:00 pm and my talk starts at 7:30. Here is the abstract: TFS 2012 FTW! Team Foundation Server 2012 introduced a lot of new tools to support your team’s agile development practices. This session will cover the new Backlog, Sprint […]
Today at 1 pm (Eastern) I am doing a Microsoft Webcast on Microsoft Test Manager, it is titled “From Manual Testing to Full Automation with Visual Studio ALM”. Here is the description: Microsoft Test Manager helps testers define and execute system test cases. These tests can be executed as exploratory and scripted test cases and […]
Now that Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 is available, I installed it on my machine. Here is my upgrade experience, upgrading from VS 2012 Update 1 Ultimate Edition. The upgrade took 11 minutes using the web installer (1.25 MB initial download), so this may vary depending on your download speed or if you choose to […]
I often get asked about the Virtual Machine that I use for my TFS presentations. I use the VM created by Brian Keller and it can be found here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2011/09/16/visual-studio-11-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine-and-hands-on-labs-demo-scripts.aspx This virtual machine is configured with: Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard Edition Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Update 1 […]
Tomorrow I will be presenting at a 2012 Launch Event: The New Era of Work in Miami Beach: https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032529251&Culture=en-US&community=0 I will be giving a talk titled “Elevate Quality: Moving from Quality Assurance to Quality Enablement” and I will show Storyboards, Sprint Planning, Code Reviews, Unit Testing, Microsoft Test Manager (Exploratory Testing, Manual Tests, Coded UI […]
I’ll be speaking at Tampa Code Camp tomorrow (October 13th). I have two sessions: 1:15: A Lap Around TFS 2012 Backlog, Sprint Planning, Task Board, Code Review, My Work, Suspend, Feedback management, Exploratory Testing, Storyboards, and the list goes on. We’ll explore the new features of TFS 2012 that will help you become more productive […]
I’m speaking at Southwest Florida Code Camp this Saturday. I’m giving 2 talks: 2:10 – 3:10 pm: What’s new in TFS 2012 4:20 – 5:20 pm: Continuous Delivery: Why and How It’s my first time speaking down there and I’m really excited about it! If you are in the area, be sure to stop by. […]
This Thursday, July 19th, I’m speaking at ONETUG (Orlando .NET User Group). I’m doing a presentation on Visual Studio ALM and your Agile Team. I will start with some of the new features of TFS 2012 and Visual Studio 2012 and I will show you how those features can make you and your […]
I’m often asked about what it means to be part of the ALM Rangers and what type of work we are involved with. Follow this link for a great way to describe it. An abstract of what we do (copied directly from http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2012/03/31/understanding-the-visual-studio-alm-rangers.aspx): The ALM Rangers are focused primarily on the delivery of out-of-band tooling […]
I’ve been running Visual Studio 11 Beta for a couple of months and now that RC is here it is time to upgrade. This was my upgrade experience: Download Visual Studio Ultimate from: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/downloads#ultimatew I usually download the ISO, but this time I decided to try to Web Installer, so here is how it went: […]