Linked by Flatland_Spider on Wed 1st Oct 2008 00:05 UTC
Yesterday Microsoft started introducing Visual Studio 2010 to Windows
developers with a
press release and a
MSDN website. Introductions to the next Visual Studio also popped
up on various technology news sites; InformationWeek,
ChannelWeb, Microsoft
Watch, BetaNews,
and Ars
Technica each have brief summary and explaination of the
information Microsoft has released so far. Only NetworkWorld
digs into the subject by asking various developers to give their
impressions of the new Visual Studio.
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RE: Trying to read the article
by jayson.knight on Wed 1st Oct 2008 05:35
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There is also a debugging tool that is meant to capture enough system and application state from the testers to get all the information to reproduce bugs. Eliminating the "No-repro" bugs, in the parlance they just made up. This one might actually be pretty cool, as long as you have enough of a bull shit detector to realize that it probably won't eliminate non-reproducible bugs like they claim.
No automated piece of software will ever capture as much useful information as a good QA department.
RE[2]: Trying to read the article
by evangs on Wed 1st Oct 2008 05:54
in reply to "RE: Trying to read the article"
Member since:2005-07-07
Member since:
2006-10-01
First, I suggest anyone reading the article just skip the bullet points. It sounds like it was run through the buzz word generator. http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/scigen/
On the whole it is very light on real content. It looks like they added a UML graphing utility that the pointy haired boss can fiddle with. It says that it is to 'enable users', but the users aren't going to care. Most of the time programming is just black magic as far as they care.
There is also a debugging tool that is meant to capture enough system and application state from the testers to get all the information to reproduce bugs. Eliminating the "No-repro" bugs, in the parlance they just made up. This one might actually be pretty cool, as long as you have enough of a bull shit detector to realize that it probably won't eliminate non-reproducible bugs like they claim.