Hey everyone,

I know it’s been an eternity since I blogged but I have so much to do that I unfortunately need to prioritize.  Vincent Grondin and I did a 7h presentation on the new developer and tester tools available in the VS 2010 suite.  It was a blast.  We did it in front of an audience (around 120) and it was taped.  We did it as a play and really didn’t look at the crowd at all we were training each other on the technology.

It is now available for anyone that would like to watch it at this location: http://www.devteach.com/ALM-TFS2010-Bridgingthegap.aspx

What we covered in the full day event was

Migration to TFS 2010 (10h00)

1-Migration of VSS to TFS (20 min.)

2-Automating the Build (Something you can't do with VSS) ( 20 Min.)

3-User story (Real application context for this presentation) (20 min.)

10h00 Pause

Manuel Tests by Dev ( 11h30)

4-Adding a tester to the team (Into to MTM) (20 min.)

5-Define tests (what is a white bug) (20 min.)

6-Fix the bug and show Intellitrace and Play back the test (20 min.)

12h15 Lunch

Manuel testing for maintenance (13h30)

7- Implement new Feature (web service) and Identify bug with MTM and branch for a production fix and also add a new Build script (20 min.)

8- Fix bug in production branch, Playback tests, merge the change in main branch (20 min.)

Manuel testing with the lab manager (14h30)

9- Intro to Lab manager and environment (20 min.)

10- Change build script to deploy to lab and test with web service in lab environment. (20 min.)

15h15 Pause

Automate UI test with CodeUI (15h30)

11- Reducing the effort of testing the UI (20 min.)

12- Repeating testing to make sure the application is working properly (20 min.)

13- Automate Coded UI with the Lab environment (20 min.)

16h30 Conclusions

As you can see lots of stuff!!

Enjoy the show and let us know how you like it

Cheers,

ET

On January 29th Etienne Tremblay and I presented infront of roughly 120 people in Ottawa a 7 hours "sketch" on how VS 2010 and TFS 2010 can help both devs and testers in their respective work.  The presentation focused on how a testers' work can positively influence a developers' work and vice versa.  The format was quite unusual as I said it's a "sketch" where Etienne and I "ignore" the audience and we do as if we were at work and the audience is sort of "spying" on us.  In all I'm quite pleased with the content we presented and the format sure was alot of fun to render and I think the audience liked it too...  The good news for you people reading this post is that it got RECORDED and it's now available for download in quick 25 to 35 minutes format on the dev teach web site:

 http://www.devteach.com/ALM-TFS2010-Bridgingthegap.aspx

There where 2 cameras, one filming us and one capturing the screen for our demos.  We switch from one to another in an intersting flow and Jean-René Roy made sure he kept all our goofs and didn't edit those funny "oups moments" where we screw-up in the scenario...  Mostly educative but hilarious at times !!!

I encourage you all to download and watch the 13 episodes...  Follow a day at work for a tester and a developper using VS 2010 and TFS 2010 to improve their chemistry ! 

Thanks to Jean-René Roy for all the work he's put into this event and to Microsoft and Pyxis for sponsoring the event.