Microsoft Team System

Microsoft team system

Team system is one of the development tools by Microsoft corporations. It’s a tool for the whole development cycle, project manager to software developer all are part of this system. Team system uses Microsoft Team Visual Studio 2005 for software development and Microsoft Team Foundation Server for team management.

It is tool with Integrated Development Environment (IDE) to provide the user with a number of productivity tools like graphic forms creation, debugging and solution management in a single environment.

MSTS provides the complete functionality to develop integration and enterprise software application. The most beneficial feature of MSTS is the communication between the whole team is much easy like anything. All communication is the part of MS team system between Project managers, Software architect, Development Leads, Software test team. Following is a simple workflow to define the major function

Version controlling in Team system

Team system provides complete version controlling for the documentation and source code. It provides Branching, Changesets, Checkin/Checkout, Diffing, Shelving, Workspaces on code with very user friendly environment.

Team system Project Management

Team System provides combined feature from Microsoft Project Server using MSF Agile to obtain maximum output during the software development cycle. Project manager can create work items in team system as task and requirements and monitor all activities related to those work items. These work items can easily be customizable at any phase of the project through VSTS Extensibility Kit and XML. MS VSTS provides extensive customizable reporting feature on work items and project scheduling for Project Managers.

Team system test management

Due to features of project management work items software test management become most easy for software test team. For each test item a complete bug reporting flow is easy to run which can be monitored by Project manager, test managers and other stake holders of the project.

Team system user roles based Management

Team system is designed for the complete team working in the process of software development process. It provides every possible feature for the different team members with different role working in the project.

System Architect

1. Logical Datacenter Designer
2. Application and Application Connection Designer
3. Distributed System Designers

Project Manager

Management for the software development has always been the toughest job during the software development. Microsoft Team system overcomes difficulties faced by project managers like team collaboration and communication, tracking and management issues and Bug resolution and problem solving. By using work items building for the project, centralized project plan, team site and portfolio management techniques at the same place project manager's life become much easier than never before.

Software Developer

Team system for software developer provides smart features for developers to get the optimized code. Using code analysis and application verifier developer will be able to obtain the best code with running or without running the code. Performance profiler and GC memory profiler presents the actual picture of the hardware performance. Developers will be able to write unit test cases and perform unit testing on the code to get the every possible bug removed from the code.

Software Tester

Team system for tester trying to solve the major issues like what to test, proper flow of bug reporting, communication between developers and testers and give maximum code coverage. Team system work items and test management system solves all these issues in just few clicks. In MSTS Test management system we can create Unit tests, Web tests, Generic tests, Load tests and Manual tests. Microsoft ACT is a part of Team system in order to get the optimized output.

Data Recovery Tools

Here are few Data Recovery tools which i used to recover data from many harddisk in my Office.

1. Easy Recovery (Recommended)
REcover from Deleted and formatted harddisk can also work remotely
2. 1st NTFS Recovery
Recover data from formatted NTFS harddisk.
3. Easeuse Data Recovery WIzard
REcover data from deleted and formatted hardrives.
4. R- STudio (Recommended)
Recommended for low level scanning. A very good tool for scanning all type of data recovery.

Trojans attack unpatched Microsoft vulnerability

omeone ruined Redmond's Christmas
Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 03 Jan 2006

Exploit code is appearing for an unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft's Windows operating system, but users will have to wait another eight days before their computers will be safe.
The problem lies in the system for handling Windows Meta Files (WMF) and was discovered on 27 December. Exploit code started to appear shortly afterwards and administrators are now being urged to block all WMF files for the time being.
"Microsoft is aware of the public release of detailed exploit code that could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the security context of the logged-on user, when such user is visiting a website which contains a specially crafted WMF image," said the company in a statement.
"An attacker would have no way of forcing users to visit a malicious website, but would have to persuade them to visit the site typically by getting them to click a link that takes them to the attacker's site."
The statement added that Microsoft engineers devised a patch within days of the discovery and will be releasing it on 10 January as part of the company's regular patch releases.
Microsoft highlighted some possible workarounds in a security advisory, such as updating antivirus software, and said that users of its OneCare system are protected.
The software giant also advised users not to open unsolicited emails and to avoid visiting unknown websites.
Mikko Hyppönen, chief research officer at security firm F-Secure, warned that this is one of the most wide-ranging Microsoft problems yet seen, potentially affecting every version of Windows.
"This is not really a bug, it's just bad design. When Windows Metafiles were designed in the late 1980s, a feature was included that allowed the image files to contain actual code," he said in a blog entry.
"This code would be executed via a call-back in special situations. This was not a bug; this was something which was needed at the time."
Hyppönen explained that the code was needed to stop print runs if they were cancelled mid-job. This means that other vulnerabilities in the WMF system are likely, and that every version of Windows is potentially affected.
Trojan infected emails have already been discovered, as have websites containing the code. Internet monitoring firm Websense has a collection of screenshots of infected websites here.

Looking for Goood Loooks ;)

As I m a software tester ... Always searching for Good GUI for the software whcih I m testing ... this is impactin my life ...and nowadays ... I always checks for the good looks... in everything ;)

GUI Standards

Fundamentals of Designing User Interaction - Checklist for a Good Interface

Use it to help you confirm that your application is designed to provide the best user experience:

Your application installs easily in a minimum number of steps.
Your application installation does not require the system to restart.
Users do not have to read a Read me file before using your application.
User-generated data files are stored by default in the My Documents folder.
Your application avoids cryptic file names that are visible to users.
Your application does not create folders outside of the Program Files folder.
Your application does not write files to the root of the hard disk.
If your application uses a disk cache, it also registers with the Disk Cleanup utility.
Your application does not include entries to its Help, Read me, and Uninstall files on the Start menu.
Your application does not install icons to the Windows desktop without the user's permission.
If your application is run at startup, it loads without displaying splash screens and dialog boxes.
Your application does not use the taskbar notification area for status, for launching applications or utilities, or for querying properties. It uses the notification area only to alert the user of an important change.
Your application appropriately applies the color choices the user selected in Display properties in Control Panel.
Your application is keyboard accessible.
Your application works correctly if the user increases the size of the default font.
Your application supports the standard set of keyboard shortcuts, where applicable.
Your applications uninstall process leaves no remaining files or registry entries other than files created by the user.
Your application does not use jargon in its user interface text. Use industry-specific or technical terms only if they are clearly understood by the user.
Your application adjusts appropriately when the user changes the display resolution as well as for multiple-monitor configurations.

Team MOtivation LInk

A goood link for team motiviation activities and materials

www.businessballs.com/motivation.htm

RBCS LIbrary

REally a good link for Software testing documentation and process documents. Software Process IMprovement, Software tester, QA personals cud be the target audience

http://www.rexblackconsulting.com/Pages/Library.htm