By Adam Barr Crosslake Principal Software Engineer, Adam Barr, publishes a book on Software Engineering. “The book covers the last 50 years of…
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Architecture
Why Innovative Businesses Are Migrating to Microservices
To keep pace with changing market demands and competitor landscapes, as well as innovations from industry leaders like Amazon, Google, and Netflix, businesses of…
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ReSharper Essentials – Book Review
We were asked to submit a book review of “ReSharper Essentials” by Łukasz Gąsior. This book provides a good reference for anyone starting out…
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TFS 2013 Customization – Book Review
We were asked to submit a book review of “Team Foundation Server 2013 Customization” by Gordon Beeming. This book provides a good reference for…
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Source Control Folder Structures
We have spent a lot of time lately talking to clients about how to structure their source control system. There are lots of documented…
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Failing Tests for Minor Bugs
Scenario Consider a case where there is a test case with several steps, and one of the steps fails because a bug is present…
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Customizing Exploratory Testing in MTM
When you create a bug or test case during an Exploratory Testing session with Microsoft Test Manager, only 10 steps are retained by default.…
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Effective Status Reports
Status reporting is often a necessary evil in many corporate environments to keep stakeholders up-to-date on what is happening with a project. In our…
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HOW TO: Rebuild TFS Analysis Database
Although not a problem we see often, some of our clients run into issues with a corrupt TFS Analysis DB, particularly after an environmental…
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TFS Reporting Capabilities
We have been getting a few questions around Team Foundation Server reporting as of late. Our good friends at Microsoft (a Crosslake partner) on…