Thursday, August 13th, 2009
What are Big Visible Charts? Ron Jeffries defines them as: “A simple chart on the wall can bring important information to the attention of the team, the customer, and everyone else who passes through the area.” - Ron Jeffries You’ll ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Static analysis
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Thursday, June 18th, 2009
FxCop is a great tool but one thing I don’t like is that there’s no simple way to cause an MSBuild script to fail when it encounters an FxCop issue. FxCopCmd.exe doesn’t fail when it finds an error or warning. It returns an error exit code when a catastrophic failure ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Static analysis
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Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My talk on the patterns & practices Service Factory:ME team's experiences with Continuous Integration (CI) and our data analysis of the CI and Team Foundation Server logs is this morning at Agile 2008. You can find the presentation for this talk here:
One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration - slide deck
One ...
Tags: agile, Continuous integration, Distributed teams, Events, Microsoft, p&p, Proven practices, Static analysis, Toronto
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Patrick Smacchia dropped by p&p this afternoon to show off the latest version of his NDepend tool. The biggest change to the current release is a radically improved UI. It even has an Office style ribbon.There are lots of improvements elsewhere but Patrick said that the real focus has ...
Tags: Events, Static analysis
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
As you may have noticed I've spent a fair amount of time play with continuous integration (CI) systems and using them to collect metrics with the long term goal of improving quality. The next question is what do you do with all that data? Well, we just finished a little ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Static analysis
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