Microsoft Academic Day

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Microsoft Academic Day
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Software Engineering using Visual Studio Team
System
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Who is this guy?

• Graduate in Computer Science
• PG in Software Engineering
• MBA from IIM Indore IT major
• Own software company for 3 years
• Worked for 3 years as developer/tester
• Experience on both Unix and Windows

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Guidelines

• Software Engineering as a subject
• How Microsoft builds software
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Issues with Software Development teams
• Role of Visual Studio Team System
• In classroom
• In projects

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Software Engineering subject

• Is it core or elective?
• Does it have
• Practical assignments
• Labs
• Projects
• How is it received by students?
• How would you like it to be?

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When will coding for Windows Vista complete?

• Quick Question

Clue Launch date is Oct-Dec 2006
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How Microsoft builds software?

• Coding
• Code-complete
• PDC / Internal builds
• Beta 1
• Beta 2
• RC
• RTM
• Production Launch

• Dogfooding
• CTPs
• ISV, IHV, OEM programs
• Customer readiness
• Sales force readiness

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Development teams in MS
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The Cathedral and Bazaar

• Path-breaking paper by Eric S. Raymond
• Chief open-source advocate
• Caused opening of Netscape and resulted in
  Mozilla and Firefox
• Compares with
• Cathedral model of Frederick P. Brooks
• Stated in the book The Mythical Man-Month
• Re-affirmed in the paper No Silver Bullet

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Commercial S/W v/s Open-source

• Very closed group
• High interaction
• Defined external interfaces
• Release less
• Test exhaustively before each release

• World-wide group
• Collaborating only online
• Release often
• Continuous testing

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Silos in the IT Lifecycle
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Development Teams
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Just how complex is this?
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The Software LifecycleWhat Weve Heard

• Building software today is very difficult
• My team is spread out and specialized
• Tools today dont work well together
• I need to be able to predict the success of my
  projects
• My organization needs customizable process
  guidance

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Static Code Analysis
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Performance Analysis
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Unit Testing Code Coverage
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Load Testing
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How VSTS helps you

• In the classroom
• A real tool to demo Software Engineering
• Live sync between diagram and code
• Code analysis
• How not to lose your job on the first day
• Performance analysis
• Where to concentrate more in your project

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How VSTS helps you

• In projects
• Enforce teams to use version control
• See their change log, branches, files changed
• Demand perf, code analysis reports
• Run a live load test during evaluation
• Validate class diagrams with code
• Demand code-coverage reports

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In conclusion

• Software Engineering is practical
• VSTS can help in that
• Based on Microsoft internal practices
• Gives live data and friendly reports
• Helps in improving code quality
• Provides real project deliverables

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Thank You

• ashwani.sharma_at_microsoft.com