Jason Barile - Testing Testing
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Patches for Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2 available
We have released patches for some known issues with Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2 upgrades that...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/29/2007
Reconnecting
Turns out a former co-worker of mine was a contributor on the TFS Guidebook I recently blogged...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 05/29/2007
Check out the new TFS Playbook
J.D. Meier just posted about the new bea release of the Software Development with Visual Studio Team...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 05/23/2007
Diarist blogging app updated for smartphones
I've been a big fan of Kevin Daly's blogging app for Windows Mobile devices for quite a long time...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/28/2007
Have you tried Orcas Beta 1 yet?
If you haven't heard yet, the Orcas Beta 1 VPCs are available for download now! We've added a lot of...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/24/2007
Team System chat this Friday
Chances are high you've already seen this on other Team Foundation blogs, but just in case: Visual...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/24/2007
My shiny new Blackjack
I recently picked up a Samsung Blackjack from Cingular and have to say that I love it! I've been a...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 03/28/2007
Learning about product and team metrics
Metrics are a double-edged sword. On one hand, you can't improve what you don't measure. On the...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 03/28/2007
Eating more dogfood...
Our QA team has recently committed to converting all of our automated tests to VSTT-style tests. You...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 03/28/2007
An Inside Look at the TFS Product Team's Quality Process
Brian Harry has been blogging over the past few days about the Team Foundation Server team's product...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 02/06/2007
You get what you measure - and bring your boots.
Elisabeth Hendrickson recently posted a roll-up of several interesting articles about software...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 01/14/2007
5 things you didn't know about me
I've been meme'ed! Jason Prickett shared his 5 things recently and called me out, so here goes... I...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 01/14/2007
To automate or not to automate? That is the question!
The December issue of Software Test & Performance Magazine (which you can download for free) has...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 12/07/2006
Three new MSDN webcasts on TFS Source Control: strategies and best practices
The folks over at MSDN have been busy! In the past few weeks, they've released 3 new on-demand...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 12/04/2006
Log Shipping with TFS
Sudhir Hasbe has posted a walkthrough for using SQL Log Shipping with TFS. Check it out!
Author: Jason Barile Date: 11/21/2006
TFS as a Workflow Platform
I was recently pinged by someone asking if TFS would be a suitable platform for building a hardware...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 11/15/2006
Windows Vista has been signed off!
Congratulations Jim and everyone who worked hard on Vista over the years!...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 11/08/2006
Warning about upgrading WSS to v3.0 on Team Foundation Server
We've seen some questions related to upgrading Windows Sharepoint Services 2.0 (WSS2.0) to version...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 11/08/2006
Team System Chat, Wed Nov. 8th
I recently mentioned we have some upcoming web chats. Turns out we have one scheduled for tomorrow,...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 11/07/2006
Software Test and Performance Magazine
I don't like to get into the business of endorsing, so I won't. But what I will say about Software...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 11/07/2006
Draft of Whitepaper for SQL Mirroring with TFS available
One of our Program Managers, Sudhir Hasbe, has posted a draft of a whitepaper detailing how to use...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 11/06/2006
My road trips are over - for now!
My last planned time away from the office has finally passed, and I've been spending time getting...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 10/23/2006
Tip: Download the latest TFS installation and administration guides
The TFS distribution disc includes 2 invaluable files called TFSAdmin.chm and TFSInstall.chm. The...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 09/22/2006
Project BHAL: TFS + Windows Workflow Foundation
Bernardo Heynemann has started project BHAL, a community effort to build a tool to help team...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 09/18/2006
VS 2005 SDK v3 (September 2006) released
Visual Studio 2005 SDK v3 has been released and is available at https://www.vsipmembers.com. Sign in...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 09/15/2006
Another great post on branching strategies in TFS
Now that I'm back from my travels, I'm finally catching up on some newsfeeds. Michael Ruminer posted...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 09/12/2006
Joel Semeniuk talks about TFS Extensibility on DotNetRocks!
Joel Semeniuk from Imaginet Resources Corp. (you may know and love his Process Template Editor tool)...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 09/12/2006
Visual Studio Team System Public MSDN Chat
Come and join members from the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 09/05/2006
Partitioning: Sharepoint vs. Version Control
In a private reply to my recent post on TFS Partitioning, someone raised the question of team site...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/28/2006
Tiny TFS
Martin Woodward displays his miniature TFS Proxy (and some impresive download speeds), and Dave...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/24/2006
Partitioning Mechanisms in TFS
In our discussions with Customer A this week, we focused for quite a while on the differences...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/22/2006
Team Project granularity
I'm just 1 day into my road trip, and already I've had some enlightening moments. For example, make...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/21/2006
VSTS webcasts galore
I've seen a great mix of basic and advanced questions posted in our MSDN forums lately. Some of...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/18/2006
Road trip!
I'm about to embark on 2 weeks of customer visits over the next 3 weeks. I'm really looking forward...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/18/2006
Sparx EA v6.5 to include TFS source control support
On August 6th, Sparx Systems announced a beta of version 6.5 of Sparx Enterprise Architect. Among...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/17/2006
TFS Administration Guide and Walkthroughs
Recently in the TFS Administration Forums, I've seen several posts about topics that are actually...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/07/2006
Teamprise 2.0 preview
Martin Woodward just blogged a nice preview of the upcoming Teamprise v2.0. If you're not familiar...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/07/2006
What's an SDET?
Here's a post someone just showed me by Scott Louvau in June 2005 that may give you more insight...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 08/03/2006
Carolina Hurricanes make it to the Stanley Cup finals!
Congratulations to the Carolina Hurricanes for their victory in game 7 tonight over the Buffalo...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 06/01/2006
New features for North Carolina
Now that Team Foundation Server version 1 shipped, we're doing a little load balancing between the...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 05/26/2006
Confidence in quality
"Confidence in quality" is a concept I've been thinking about quite a bit lately and I thought it'd...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 05/12/2006
More SDET and Lead SDET openings in Raleigh!
Just a quick note to let everyone know I have several openings for SDETs and Lead SDETs in our...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 05/12/2006
What do you want from your test automation?
Part I - What's in a pass rate? The Team Foundation Server test team is busy these days preparing...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/14/2006
Find MSDN events in the Southeast
Check out Glen Gordon's blog Pla.NET Southeast! for all the latest MSDN happenings and interesting...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/13/2006
Currently reading "Lessons Learned in Software Testing"
I'm working my way through "Lessons Learned in Software Testing" by Cem Kaner, James Bach, and Bret...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/12/2006
Teamprise v1.0 has shipped - access TFS thorugh a Mac or Unix client
Martin Woodward announced today that TeamPrise v1.0 has shipped. This is the Eclipse plugin that...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/11/2006
Kohl on "Reckless" test automation and test debt
Sometimes, I think Jonathan Kohl is living inside my head (you know, as in the film "Being John...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/11/2006
Fleshing and pipes, or flushing and pikes?
Ths history of language and in particular popular phrases has always intrigued me. At Microsoft,...
Author: Jason Barile Date: 04/03/2006