Productivity

As time goes on in any software development project you’ll no doubt find inefficiencies in your code that you would like to remove. Other times you’ll receive new requirements that are going to necessitate large scale changes in your existing code. And you will still occasionally find code that you’ve written in the past that will make you ask “What was I thinking when I did that?!” When these situations arrive, it’s time to look at refactoring your code.

JustCode works very hard in the background to make you as productive as possible without getting in your way. In order to do this there is some startup work that must be done, and this can affect the start up time for Visual Studio. Read here to see what's going on behind the scenes.

I’ve previously discussed a bit of the TDD workflow; start with a requirement, derive a test from the requirement, write just enough code to make that test pass, repeat. This is sometimes referred to as “Red, Green, Refactor” which I’ll be coming back to several times over the course of this series. In this post I’ll show you how this approach can be extended to dealing with software defects.

When iteratively planning an Agile project where the team partitions work into timeboxed iterations, understanding capacity is very important. Planning an iteration is very much like using a bucket to scoop water out of a pool, where the pool represents the complete set of backlog items on your project and the bucket represents the amount of work that can be accomplished in a single iteration. Understanding how much water a bucket holds will give you an idea of how many buckets are required to empty the pool. Similarly, understanding how much work your team can deliver in an iteration will ...

Now that Test Studio has a new scheduling and load testing architecture, our documentation updates can help you get the most out of our new and old scheduling and load testing features.  First, we have a new guide for an existing feature: our new Export Load Results walkthrough shows how to convert your Test Studio Load Test results to HTML or Excel spreadsheet format. Next, we have some help for responding to some load testing problems that may have popped up for a while: the No Results Data article explains what to do when you aren't getting results back ...