Developing, building, and testing. How do it the best? Learning from the world leader - Microsoft

Developing, building, and testing. How do it the best? Learning from the
world leader - Microsoft

I'm very interested in how the developing/build/testing workflow @ Microsoft
looks like. I think Microsoft as world leader in software developing
business must have a very good workflow. Does anyone know how the
development flow @ Microsoft looks like?

I'm also interested in the workflow in your company perhaps the workflow in
your company better then @ Microsoft? What do you think about test driven
development?
Regards,

Gicio

[Morten Wennevik]

Well, they do have a book called "Analyzing Requirements and Defining
Microsoft .Net Solution Architecture" which is all about large scale
software development process (envisioning, planning, developing,
stabilizing/testing, deploying) and very little .net. It's one of the
requirements for MCSD.NET.

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[One Handed Man]

Nah, to hell with all that, just get your shirt sleeves rolled up and get
down to some serious coding. Once you have enough experience under your belt
( which I dont yet in .NET ) then you will be able to SEE the solution
without all that fancy planning sh*te.

The mind is a fantatstic part of your body, let it do its job. Admitidly
specifications are needed but I use them as a kind of check list rather then
trying to define to minute detail a system desigm. In any case, it takes way
too long and it kind of stifles the creative part of you.

Thats my two shillings worth . .
OHM


Morten Wennevik wrote:

Well, they do have a book called "Analyzing Requirements and Defining
Microsoft .Net Solution Architecture" which is all about large scale
software development process (envisioning, planning, developing,
stabilizing/testing, deploying) and very little .net. It's one of the
requirements for MCSD.NET.

[Justin Weinberg]

We're leaning more toward XTreme programming these days, especially with
..NET where the superior versioning allows you to do quick build cycles and
updates.

Wired has a nice segment on it:

http://wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/xmen.html

--

Justin Weinberg
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Check out GDI+ Architect at www.mrgsoft.com

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Developing, building, and testing. How do it the best? Learning from the
world leader - Microsoft

I'm very interested in how the developing/build/testing workflow @ Microsoft looks like. I think Microsoft as world leader in software developing
business must have a very good workflow. Does anyone know how the
development flow @ Microsoft looks like?

I'm also interested in the workflow in your company perhaps the workflow in your company better then @ Microsoft? What do you think about test driven
development?
Regards,

Gicio

Which workflow use companies that are on the CMM levels 3, 4, 5 ???
(http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/)

regards,
gicio
"Justin Weinberg" <jweinberg@_spamkill_mrgsoft.com> wrote in message
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We're leaning more toward XTreme programming these days, especially with
.NET where the superior versioning allows you to do quick build cycles and
updates.

Wired has a nice segment on it:

http://wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/xmen.html

--

Justin Weinberg
Designing a PrintDocument? Drawing to forms?
Check out GDI+ Architect at www.mrgsoft.com

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Developing, building, and testing. How do it the best? Learning from the
world leader - Microsoft

I'm very interested in how the developing/build/testing workflow @

Microsoft

looks like. I think Microsoft as world leader in software developing
business must have a very good workflow. Does anyone know how the
development flow @ Microsoft looks like?

I'm also interested in the workflow in your company perhaps the workflow

in

your company better then @ Microsoft? What do you think about test driven development?
Regards,

Gicio

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

gi***@web.de wrote:

Which workflow use companies that are on the CMM levels 3, 4, 5 ???
(http://www.sei.cmu.edu/cmm/)

Very few companies ever do the benchmarking necessary to establish which CMM
level they fall in. In my estimation., the vast majority of companies are
at level 1, a few at level 2 and a very few at levels 3, 4, 5. There is far
from uniform agreement, even amoung acedemics, that the CMM really measures
the right things for many types of businesses, so it's not at all surprising
that few organizations go to the trouble of being assessed.

If you're interested in the practices of a CMM level 3/4 organization, take
a look at the NASA LaRC Software Process Improvement Initiative home page at
http://sw-eng.larc.nasa.gov/ or the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Software Engineering Laboratory at
http://sel.gsfc.nasa.gov/website/index.htm. I recall finding a NASA
department that claimed to be at CMM level 5, but I can't recall the group
or find that reference anymore.

-cd