Thursday, August 7th, 2008
My talk on the p&p Service Factory:ME team's experiences with CI and our data analysis of the CI and TFS logs is this morning. You can find the presentation for this talk here:
One Hundred Days of Continuous Integration - slide deck
The deck actually includes some speaker notes so it's not ...
Tags: Agile, Best practices, Continuous integration, Microsoft, News & events, p & p, 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: News & 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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Monday, January 14th, 2008
InfoQ has an interview with Patrick Smacchia, the author of NDepend. NDepend is the tool for figuring out what's ailing your codebase, where the technical debt lies. Patrick also has a blog which covers some interesting aspects of NDepend usage, like using it for dependency analysis and avoiding regressions when ...
Tags: Coding, Static analysis
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
A couple of weeks back Alan Ridlehoover and I gave a talk about continuous integration (CI) for the engineering excellence group here at Microsoft. We had a pretty good turnout and a lot of good questions at the end.
One of the things that occured to me during the talk was ...
Tags: Coding, Continuous integration, Static analysis
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Tuesday, June 12th, 2007
So a while back I blogged about CI and defence in depth. Since then the Service Factory team has had time to start evaluating the results of our latest defence in depth tooling.
As a Lead on Service Factory one of the things I'm responsible for is code quality. Obviously the best way to ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Static analysis
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Sunday, October 8th, 2006
So I've been playing around with CruiseControl.NET this week. What I'd like it to do is run a bunch more static analysis tools in background on my machine. We have some similar tools at Microsoft for doing static analysis on developer machines so the code is constantly checked. This allows you to ...
Tags: Coding, Continuous integration, Static analysis
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Thursday, September 7th, 2006
I've been thinking about how one could measure technical dept to get a relative, rather than absolute, number reflecting the debt present in a codebase and how that changes over time. One of the things I considered measuring as something that might indicate or track debt was cyclometric complexity. I came ...
Tags: Coding, Static analysis
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