Team Agile Methods

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Team Agile Methods

• Stephen Mudie, Janet Hughes, Jon Bowyer
• University of Dundee

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Outline

1. Background
2. Development
3. Materials

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Background

• Agile methods in software engineering
• user stories
• iteration planning
• pair programming
• test-driven design
• continuous integration

not commonly given as a practical experience
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Continuous Integration
Continuous Integration Server
Configuration Management
Continuous Integration





Build Script
Code
Unit Tests
Created together in any project developed using
Test-Driven Development
Used in any software project
New elements
- a system which automatically builds and tests a
software project periodically upon detecting
modifications to project files
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2004 architecture
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Team Foundation Server 2006
Client Side
VS Team Edition for software testers
Team Explorer
Server Side
Team Foundation Build
Team Foundation Source Control
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2006 architecture
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Continuous integration benefits
Continuous integration often avoids diverging or
fragmented development efforts, where developers
are not communicating with each other about what
can be re-used, or what could be
shared. www.extremeprogramming.org
E-mail alerts
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Team Foundation Server benefits
Integrated experience with Visual Studio
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Team Foundation Server benefits
Easy creation of reports, eg number of builds per
date
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Team Foundation Server benefits
Build status automatically displayed via Build
Results web page
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Materials
Considers issues such as software, architecture,
project topic, size, and duration organisation
of teams and supporting materials.

• Case study
• TFS technical guide
• Incorporating TDD and CI into the Curriculum
• Web site for materials

Advice for the installation and configuration of
TFS
Issues to consider for teaching and assessment,
and suggestions for resources
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Final thoughts

• TFS is an industrial strength tool developments
  continue
• Academic Alliance is terrific value
• Thanks to HEA and Microsoft for support for this
  project.

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Comments

• Stephen Mudie
• smudie_at_computing.dundee.ac.uk

University of Dundee

• Janet Hughes
• jhughes_at_computing.dundee.ac.uk

• Jon Bowyer
• jbowyer_at_computing.dundee.ac.uk