Software Development Tool Notes

Notes by Stephen R. Palmer

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Adventures in Build
...automating builds using Microsoft's Team Foundation Server(TFS),Visual Studio(VS), MSBuild, MSTest and Team Build tooling (all 2008 vintage, 2010 being only available as beta at the time)
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Micro Focus Together
One design tool I have become addicted to since first encountering it over a decade ago is Micro Focus's Together. Micro Focus Together was originally constructed to address the problem of design models and documents becoming out of date. Today Together has added enormously to this core ability and has become one of the most comprehensive software modelling solutions available, and a key component of a growing number of companies' design infrastructures.
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Micro Focus StarTeam
Micro Focus StarTeam provides a single integrated repository for version controlled source code, requirements, change requests, discussion topics, and tasks. Therefore, StarTeam's integrated approach frequently provides a better platform for managing agile requirements than a traditional requirement management tool or a purpose-built 'agile planning tool'.
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Miscellaneous Software Development Tool Topics
A set of introductory notes and notes on topics that do not fit naturally into any of the other categories above.
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Software tools
Creating new software requires tools. At the most fundamental level, compiler and interpreters are required to translate programming language statements into processor instructions. At the other extreme are compliacted modelling, simulation and testing tools. Agile approaches have caused significant debate about the value of these tools.
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FDD and 'modeling in color' Workshops
Give your next IT software development project a better start, and enable your team to deliver frequent, tangible, working results.
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Cross Functional Tooling for Cross Functional Teams
A comparison of software development management servers and power station monitoring systems: The idea of cross-functional software development servers appeals to me because we want to encourage collaboration across disciplines in agile teams. In my opinion, each discipline using a different user interface to access their data in a different server discourages this.
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Adventures in Software Builds
Adventures automating builds using Microsoft's Team Foundation Server(TFS),Visual Studio(VS), MSBuild, MSTest and Team Build tooling (2008 vintage)
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