Agile Software Development with Microsoft® Visual Studio™ and TFS in Houston, TX

Full Course Description

Students will first be introduced to a set of realistic agile requirements. Then, using the concepts of Test-Driven Development, they will fulfill those requirements by refactoring mercilessly and actively measuring the quality of the system-under-development.
The course is heavily exercise-driven with students accumulating greater skill by applying concepts in incrementally more complex scenarios. Improving’s instructors bring real-world experience and insight to the classroom, and students walk away with knowledge, experience, and references to enhance retention.

Audience:

• Programmers with object-oriented programming experience interested in high quality agile development with Microsoft Visual Studio and TFS
  

Participants will be able to:

• Capture testable acceptance criteria
• Size, prioritize, and define done for work items
• Develop code using the TDD/BDD cycle
• Assign responsibilities to classes to make the solution flexible, extensible, and maintainable
• Design good tests so that they are independent and fast
• Manage work items in Team Foundation Server
• Use dummies, stubs, fakes and mocks to achieve test isolation and repeatability
• Detect suspicious code
• Refactor bad code using basic tips and techniques
• Use Visual Studio’s unit testing, code coverage, and code analysis tools
• Use polymorphism to create flexible solutions
• Decide when and (more importantly) when not to use inheritance
• Use UML Class Diagrams and Interaction Diagrams
• Benefit from Visual Studio 11’s continuous test execution, build, integration, and deployment
• Measure code quality with test coverage analysis, static code analysis, and bug statistics
• Collect detailed information about bugs from testers and users
• Manage build quality with check-in policies on the desktop and Gated Check-in on the server
• Branch and merge different lines of work in source control