Application Lifecycle Management in a Java'NET Environment

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Application Lifecycle Management in a Java/.NET
Environment

• Ronan Geraghty
• Developer and Platform Group
• Microsoft Ireland
• http//blogs.msdn.com/ronang

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Goal
Learn how to facilitate team collaboration in a
heterogeneous environment
Introduce an ALM approach based on tight
integration across tools, process and roles
irrespective of underlying technology
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Agenda

• Challenges
• What do we mean by ALM?
• ALM in Heterogeneous Environments
• Traceability
• Process Enactment
• Visibility
• TFS and Teamprise
• Demo
• Teamprise from Eclipse on Linux

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Agenda

• Challenges
• What do we mean by ALM?
• ALM in Heterogeneous Environments
• Traceability
• Process Enactment
• Visibility
• TFS and Teamprise
• Demo
• Teamprise from Eclipse on Linux

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Software Development

• The Last Ten Years Are We Getting Better?

Good news! It now costs less to fail
Source Standish Group, 2004 Third Quarter
Research Report, CHAOS Research Results
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Challenges Lack of business Alignment

• Why do projects fail?
• Lack of user involvement and stakeholder support
• Requirements and scope not proactively managed
• Poor business and IT team collaboration

Source Forrester, September 2006, Trends The
Root Of The Problem Poor Requirements, Carey
Schwaber, 2006
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Challenges Productivity

• Lower productivity in enterprise organizations
• Overhead of project management and co-ordination
• Communication issues between organizational silos
• Increased complexity

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Challenges Quality

• Software quality is critical to project success
• Software quality errors cost U.S. businesses over
  59 billion in productivity annually (64
  end-users, 36 IT departments)
• Software bugs account for 55 of all downtime
  costs

Source NIST, The Economic Impacts of Inadequate
Infrastructure for Software Testing 2002,
Standish Group
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Agenda

• Challenges
• What do we mean by ALM?
• ALM in Heterogeneous Environments
• Traceability
• Process Enactment
• Visibility
• TFS and Teamprise
• Demo
• Teamprise from Eclipse on Linux

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What do we mean by ALM?
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ALM Practices
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...need to focus on 3 key areas
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Agenda

• Challenges
• What do we mean by ALM?
• ALM in Heterogeneous Environments
• Traceability
• Process Enactment
• Visibility
• TFS and Teamprise
• Demo
• Teamprise from Eclipse on Linux

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ALM in Heterogeneous Environments

• ...is complicated!

• Todays software development is rarely
  homogeneous
• Multiple platform support
• Legacy code bases
• Hard to manage artifacts across systems,
  platforms, and tools

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Why This Requires Tooling

• The manual tracking of project progress is
  inefficient
• Manual processes, and disparate tools lead to
  inaccurate information
• Much time and effort is wasted
• Tooling is required to
• Reduce the overhead and costs
• To provide automated instrumentation of processes
• To provide change management and
  auditing(particularly for regulatory compliance)
• Existing systems

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Traceability - Use a Common Product Backlog

• A single work item database
• To track all planned, active and completed work
• Much of the data is automatically captured
• With many daily activities instrumented

IDE
Work Items
Source Code
Instrumentation of Daily Activities
Excel / Project
Metrics
Reports
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Process Enactment
Basic Questions Become Easy to Answer

• Define the Process
• Prescriptive Guidance
• Process enacted by Tooling
• Integrated Unit Testing
• Code Coverage
• Automated Builds
• Code Profiling
• Static Analysis
• Code metrics etc.

• Is the project coming in on time?
• How much has the plan changed?
• Whos over or under and needs to be rebalanced?
• How effective are our tests?
• What rates should we use to estimate remaining
  work?

PMs Can Spot the Bottlenecks

• Identifying the bottlenecks becomes easier
• By using multi-dimensional metrics

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Visibility
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Visibility - Where Do We Need To Shift Resources?
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Inadequate Unit Testing
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Visibility - Underestimating
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Visibility - Scope Creep
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Agenda

• Challenges
• What do we mean by ALM?
• ALM in Heterogeneous Environments
• Traceability
• Process Enactment
• Visibility
• TFS and Teamprise
• Demo
• Teamprise from Eclipse on Linux

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Team Foundation Server

• Web Service Interface
• Source Control
• Analysis Services
• Reporting Services
• Windows SharePoint Services
• Team Build Server

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Team Foundation Server
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Teamprise

• Questions
• How can Java developers using Eclipse utilize
  Team Foundation Server (TFS)?
• How do members of my team on other operating
  systems, such as Linux, access the features of
  TFS?
• Solution Teamprise

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Teamprise Client Suite

• Suite of client applications for accessing the
  source control, work item tracking, and reporting
  features of Team Foundation Server
• Implemented in Java
• Runs on operating systems that support a Java
  Runtime Environment (JRE)
• 3 client applications
• Plug-in for Eclipse, Teamprise Explorer, and
  Command Line Client (CLC)
• Clients communicate directly with TFS
• No additional server components to install

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Teamprise 1.0 / 1.1

• Source Code Control
• Add to / Import from Source Control
• Get Latest Version, Get Specific Version
• Check Out, Check In, Undo Check Out
• History, Compare, Move, Rename, Delete
• View Pending Changes
• Synchronize (Eclipse Plug-in)
• Work Item Tracking
• Associate work items with Check In operations
• Run work item queries stored in TFS
• View work item details

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Teamprise 2.0 / 2.1

• Source Code Control
• Branch, Merge, Shelve, Labels
• Work Item Tracking
• Create and edit work items
• Create and edit work item queries
• Quick search for individual work items
• Team Explorer
• Access to Documents and Reports
• Java Build Automation
• Ant tasks and Cruise Control integration

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Teamprise Plug-in for Eclipse

• Perform source control and work item tracking
  operations from within the Eclipse IDE
• Similar experience to working in Visual Studio
• Supported on Eclipse 3.x, RAD 6.0, etc.
• Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.
• Standard Eclipse Team Provider Plug-in
• Familiar environment for Eclipse developers

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Example Workflow
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DEMO Teamprise Plug-in for Eclipse
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Teamprise Roadmap

• Test framework integration
• JUnit
• Publish results of JUnit tests to TFS
• Associate work items with test results
• Build tool integration
• Extend Ant tasks and Cruise Control integration
• Target changes planned in Visual Studio 2008
• Team Build, Maven, OpenMake, etc.
• VSTS Check-in policies
• Offline support (disconnected from TFS)

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Migration and Sync Toolkit

• Provides customers a base for building
  sync/integration tools
• Support for Version Control (VC) and Work Item
  Tracking (WIT)
• Shared Source CodePlex Project
• www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit
• Provides reference samples

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Summary

• More to ALM than just writing the software
• Heterogeneous environments complicate ALM
• Silos of information are problematic
• Manual project management processes too costly
  and inaccurate
• Tooling can
• Increase transparency
• Support your process
• Increase visibility

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For More Information

• Teamprise - http//www.teamprise.com
• Team Foundation Server http//msdn2.microsoft.com
  /en-us/teamsystem/aa718934.aspx

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QA
Ronan Geraghty ronang_at_microsoft.com http//blogs.m
sdn.com/ronang