After a brief hiatus, the TFS Times is back in action. Check out the latest edition at www.tfstimes.com. As always feedback is welcome at paul.hacker@tfstimes.com
-paul
May 22, 2008
May 21, 2008
Kanban meets TFS
Presented by Eric Landes
Join Eric as he shows us how he has developed a way to use the Kanban process in Team System. Eric will explain what Kanban is as well as demo the tools and workitems that he has created that will allow dev teams to hit the ground running with Kanban in TFS.
Eric is currently the project lead for a large global corporate IT development department. Eric is a Microsoft MVP Visual Developer ASP.NET, and a member of the aspinsiders. He also has published many articles on aspalliance.com. Eric is the president of the Michiana Area .NET Users group (MADNUG) in South Bend, IN. He has been working with TFS since January of 2007. Eric has been working with Agile methodologies for over 3 years. As any good developer would, Eric owns all the Star Wars movies. He loves playing hoops, and 80’s music also!
Dial your load – Load Test Plugin to Limit Users
Some time back Bill Barnett wrote a great blog post on how you could go about creating a custom load test plugin for your Team System Load Tests. The post provided two things, it showed users how easy it was to create a custom load test plugin for VSTS and two, it provided the user with a great sample that they could start using right away.
I decided to take his advise and add a user interface to the plug-in so that users could truly “Dail-A-Load”. I presented this topic at a IndyTFS SIG meeting and it was a big hit. If you are interested in checking out the tool you can download it from the IndyTFS website. .http://www.indytfs.org/sig/Downloads/tabid/55/Default.aspx and download the July 2007 Testers material. I have some Web Request, Web Test, and Load Test plugins, plus the slide deck.
I have not tested this with VSTS 2008 yet, but it should still work.
-paul
