Zero Bug Bounce
I am excited to announce that as of 6pm, Nov 19, the Developer Division hit the ‘Zero Bug Bounce’ (ZBB) milestone for Beta2 of Visual Studio 2005. This is one of the key milestones on the way to a major product milestone like a Beta or the final release of a product where we have eliminated our bug backlog and the development team is handling bugs that are coming in real-time.
The team worked very hard to help us reach this milestone. Ever since we shipped Beta1 earlier this year Summer, we have consistently focused on improving the quality of the product by fixing bugs, doing a limited number of work items (also known as Design Change Requests or DCRs) based on customer feedback, being selective about what we deferred to the Release Candidate (RC) milestone and not postponing or deferring chunks of bugs/issues to post Visual Studio 2005. During the 5 month push to the ZBB milestone, the team has done a tremendous job fixing bugs. At the same time, they managed to keep the RC milestone bug backlog to the bug caps we had originally set and eliminated much of our bug backlog.
Looking ahead, we are entering the most important phase of the Whidbey product cycle, the Security Push. By now, we all understand the impact of a security vulnerability issue in a shipping product for our customers and for us. Over the course of the next four weeks, we will focus on the security push, do the due diligence and ensure that we produce the most secure versions of the .NET Framework and Visual Studio ever. We have a lot of work to do – threat models, code reviews, annotations, and penetration testing to name a few, all to ensure that our customers can be confident trusting their mission critical applications and businesses to our platform and tools. Please note that though we think about security during the entire lifecycle of the product, each product does go through a concentrated security push milestone to ensure that we have done our absolute best.
We are on target to deliver the most compelling Visual Studio ever.
Namaste!
Comments
Anonymous
November 28, 2004
Namaste Soma,
The new VS is awesome. I am architecting a .NET 2.0 project on a tight deadline and we are anxiously waiting for the Beta2. When do you think should we expect that?
- SahilAnonymous
November 28, 2004
サンクスギビングホリデーも最終日 ZBBAnonymous
November 29, 2004
Heck, I would just like a new interim release soon, cause the current interim for B2 of SQL server is VERY buggy...
any eta on that?Anonymous
November 29, 2004
Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 Zero Bug Bounce.Anonymous
November 29, 2004
Hi Sahil,
We are currently targeting delivering Beta2 of VS2005 in Q1 of calendar year 2005.
Good luck with your .NET 2.0 project!
- somasegarAnonymous
November 29, 2004
Does a ZBB phase indicate there there will be no new feature added to the existing list? i.e. Will this be the final feature list?Anonymous
November 29, 2004
"Soma" Somasegar, Corporate Vice President, Developer Division at Microsoft, blogged that Visual Studio...Anonymous
November 30, 2004
Hi Vipul,
We are pretty much feature complete for Visual Studio 2005. There are still a few small DCRs that are likely to come in primarily to reflect customer feedback on the features that we already have and to fit and finish the scenarios that we want to enable with this new release. However, they will be minor tweaks for the most part.
- somasegarAnonymous
December 05, 2004
So, are you going to get another CTP drop out now? I think this would be good as it should be pretty stable now since you hit ZBB, right?Anonymous
December 06, 2004
Hi Tom,
Our plan is to put out a Community Technology Preview for VS2005 at least once every 2 months between now and when we ship. We are planning on putting out our next CTP this month - should be available in the next week or so.
- somasegarAnonymous
December 12, 2004
"Soma" Somasegar, Corporate Vice President, Developer Division at Microsoft, blogged that Visual Studio...Anonymous
February 02, 2005
"Soma" Somasegar, Corporate Vice President, Developer Division at Microsoft, blogged that Visual Studio...Anonymous
September 16, 2008
ZBB is such an important milestone in software development. After having more than 3000 tasks and bugs for SourceAnywhere 3.0, we have only 38 bugs open today. I believe we will reach ZBB this week.Anonymous
December 31, 2008
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