Use Cases, User Stories and Scenarios – what are they – and how do they relate to TFS 2010

All these three terms are used to describe the behavior of an application.  They come from different process methodologies, and have different meanings, characteristics and are intended to be used differently. Larry Guger also discuss these aspects and several others in his blog entries http://continuouslyintegrating.blogspot.com/2009/07/use-cases-and-visual-studio-2010-part-1.html and http://continuouslyintegrating.blogspot.com/2009/07/beginning-use-cases-identifying-actors.html.   The Use Case is the term used in Continue Reading →

Article on Subsystem branching

I did an article on Subsystem branching (http://geekswithblogs.net/terje/archive/2008/11/02/handling-subsystem-branching.aspx) as a result of a post on the Microsoft forums regarding this. Further, at the PDC 2008 conference now, Grant Holliday made me aware of the TFS Dependency Replicator, which also is a way to solve the problem. It corresponds to the solution I named Solution 3B, Continue Reading →