Tag: Development

Practicing Hypothesis-Driven Development in Azure DevOps

Apr 2, 2024 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I like to think of Scrum Product Owners as mini-CEOs of their product. As such, they should be empowered to drive value in any direction that they desire. This often requires a Product Owner to …

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A unique load testing experiment

Oct 21, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Most of the guidance you’ll find about Visual Studio Ultimate Load Tests suggests that they are only for load testing Web Performance tests. Actually, they can be used to load other types of …

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Develop.Idaho 2014 Videos Published

May 9, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 20 May: Added presentations (but no videos) from the "Business of Software" track. It took a few extra days to get these produced and published, but they are now on YouTube for your …

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Running nUnit in a TFS11 build on 64 bit server

Apr 30, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

Overview In TFS/VS 11, frameworks other than MS Test are supported, which is cool. Peter Provost mentions them here. OK, so you start to use this great new feature, queue up a team build and the …

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Emergent Architecture Presentation at TechEd 2011

Jun 1, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE (3 June 2011): Watched the recorded presentation on Channel 9. I finally got my (final) Emergent Architecture (DPR308) presentation posted. I had a couple of people tell me that the deck they …

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Top 5 Reasons to use VS Database Projects

Dec 10, 2010 • 4 min read • Simon Reindl

There is a traditional resistance to using database projects – the production system is the reference point, and I have a backup, so what is the problem, right? Since the GDR2 was released, this …

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Adding HEAT output to the GAC

Jun 3, 2010 • 1 min read • Simon Reindl

There are situations (infrastructure component used across the enterprise is one example) where it is more useful to put the assembly in to the GAC. Using Heat, a transform needs to be used that will …

Development

Add Heat to Wix Project

Jun 3, 2010 • 3 min read • Simon Reindl

There are two really powerful ways to harvest the output from the build in to Wix. Heat extensions that are native with the Wix Install or John Robbins Paraffin. The advantage with using Heat is that …

TFS Development

Test-Driven Test-Driven Development (TDTDD) = a chicken and egg dilemma

May 10, 2010 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Weird thought for today: if unit tests are just code, then shouldn’t you write tests before you write that code? Test-driven-test-driven-development (TDTDD) if you will. But then where would it stop. …

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