Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012

Forewords xii Preface xvi Acknowledgments xxiii About the Authors xxiv 1 The Agile Consensus 1 The Origins of Agile 2 Agile Emerged to Handle Complexity 2 Empirical Process Models 4 A New Consensus 5 Scrum 6 An Example 12 Self-Managing Teams 14 Summary 15 Endnotes 16 2 Scrum, Agile Practices, and Visual Studio 19 Visual Studio and Process Enactment 20 Process Templates 21 Process Cycles and TFS 24 Inspect and Adapt 37 Task Boards 37 Kanban 38 Fit the Process to the Project 39 Summary 42 Endnotes 43 3 Product Ownership 45 What Is Product Ownership? 46 Scrum Product Ownership 50 Release Planning 51 Qualities of Service 69 How Many Levels of Requirements 73 Summary 75 Endnotes 75 4 Running the Sprint 77 Empirical over Defined Process Control 78 Scrum Mastery 80 Use Descriptive Rather Than Prescriptive Metrics 86 Answering Everyday Questions with Dashboards 91 Choosing and Customizing Dashboards 98 Using Microsoft Outlook to Manage the Sprint 100 Summary 101 Endnotes 101 5 Architecture 103 Architecture in the Agile Consensus 104 Exploring Existing Architectures 107 Summary 124 Endnotes 126 6 Development 129 Development in the Agile Consensus 130 The Sprint Cycle 131 Keeping the Codebase Clean 132 Staying "in the Groove" 139 Detecting Programming Errors Early 143 Catching Side Effects 154 Preventing Version Skew 162 Making Work Transparent 170 Summary 171 Endnotes 173 7 Build and Lab 175 Cycle Time 176 Defining Done 177 Continuous Integration 179 Automating the Build 181 Automating Deployment to Test Lab 186 Elimination of Waste 199 Summary 203 Endnotes 204 8 Test 207 Testing in the Agile Consensus 208 Testing Product Backlog Items 211 Actionable Test Results and Bug Reports 215 Handling Bugs 223 Which Tests Should Be Automated? 223 Automating Scenario Tests 224 Load Tests, as Part of the Sprint 228 Production-Realistic Test Environments 234 Risk-Based Testing 236 Summary 238 Endnotes 239 9 Lessons Learned at Microsoft Developer Division 241 Scale 242 Business Background

Neno Loje entwickelt Software, berät Firmen, schult Entwickler rund um die Microsoft .NET-Technologie und ist Technologiespezialist für Visual Studio Team System (VSTS).