Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Q&A) - List of questions and answers/feedback
This post lists all of the questions raised during our mini evaluation series and the answers and feedback ... where available. Remember that we are evaluation bleeding edge technology and when we find missing features, bugs, raise questions, etc. it is positive, not an opportunity to flame the technology!
This post will be a living post, which I will update as we are going through the evaluation and as answers, ideas, etc. trickle in.
Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 1) - Create Team Project
No questions, issues reported at this stage.
Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 2) - Project Management
No questions, issues reported at this stage.
Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 3) - Architecture
- ? It would be great if I could spot the use case diagram as a link or attachment when viewing the work item, or select the work item shape and zoom over to the work item. It may be possible, but I have not been able to find a way ... yet.
- ! The next CTP promises appropriate work item navigation, as well as other arbitrary artifacts.
- ? Can we synchronise the logical model with the physical models and thus the code base? Busy investigating ...
- ! We need to park this question until we are in a position to evaluate the next CTP, which promises two way synchronisation ... two way synchronization is a bit more difficult than it might seem. The team is investing immense effort and passion in the transformations between physical and logical models ... exciting times are ahead of us.
- ? What is the cause of the following error we have noticed while manipulating the models? Reported and waiting for guidance...
- ! We get these errors "occasionally" ... these are under investigation and the team is appreciating all feedback and reporting of these exceptional exceptions to be able to check current and future releases.
- ? Is there a way of synchronising the methods added after creating the method from the sequence diagram, to the logical diagram? In other words, after method is visible in logical designer, is there any way of getting it back to the sequence diagram, without re-creating a lifetime? The steps I had to do:
1. Select create method in sequence diagram.
2. Rename the method in the logical diagram.
3. Problem is that change is not synchronised with sequence diagram.
4. Create lifetime of object in sequence diagram.
5. Select correct operation on previous lifetime object in sequence diagram
... list is now up to date.
6. Delete the new lifetime we just added. - ! We need to park this question until we are in a position to evaluate the next CTP, which promises a mental model that states that once models are linked, their views are of the same model element.
Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 4) - Version Control
- ? What happened to the branching visualisation as mentioned in blog posts and TFS presentations?
- ! The exciting visualisation of branching will be included in forthcoming CTPs.
Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 5) - Build
- ? What is the cause if the following error we cannot get past when trying to copy a node in the build process editor?
- ! The error occurs as the Clipboard can only be read by a single process at a time, so when multiple processes try to open the clipboard at the same time, the error occurs. In most cases, you don’t see this problem (the Clipboard class in .NET actually sleeps and retries a number of times by default to try and work around this), however, in a Virtual Machine the virtual machine additions seem to make this more likely to occur. The workaround for now: Try copying multiple times, or turn off the virtual machine additions or run it outside of a Virtual machine.
Thanks "David Kean" for pointing this out.
Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 6) - Developer
None at this stage.
Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 7) - Tester
? I have been battling with Camano, trying to get the replay of test cases to work. After a lot of “fiddling” I managed to get the following view, but the replay stopped at 3/39 actions. Since then I am not getting the markers turning red or the popup menu appearing again. I have re-run the test cases again and again … the replay and the view as above will not return. Is there a known issue or am I simply doing something silly again?
- ! The test manager is still very new, the CTP we used old'ish and hence the temperamental behaviour needs to be accepted as a CTP gremlin. We are awaiting the next CTYP with great interest in terms of testing ...
Rosario April 2008 CTP Investigation (Part 8) - Database
None at this stage.
Conclusion
The final conclusion post can be found here.