Mark Mydland (VS Test Edition Principal Group Manager) coming to AADND
We’ve got a great treat for Ann Arbor .NET this week. Mark Mydland, from the Visual Studio Test edition, is coming through our region to speak at a variety of user groups. (Thanks to Jennifer Marsman for setting this up). It promises to be a fun evening, because in addition to the talk, Mark wants to know as much as possible about issues customers have with the product.
As always, AADND takes place on the second Wednesday of every month, at 6:00, at SRT Solutions office in downtown Ann Arbor (206 S. Fifth Ave, Suite 200). Please stop by.
Here’s the abstract and bio:
The phrase “drive quality upstream” has been abused so badly by ALM software vendors that it has to be relegated to the platitude junk pile along with such all time favorites as “work smarter not harder,” “Think outside the box,” and “Synergistic leveraging of code reuse.” Before we drive quality anywhere we need to give quality a seat at the table. VSTS Rosario release will do this by automatically gathering critical information about the project and code and making that data available when, where and to whom it is needed. During this discussion we will examine how Rosario impacts quality across the application lifecycle by:
• Allowing testers to provide developers with details about what the code did instead of just providing the details about what the tester did.
• Allowing development leads and architects to visualize and understand their current code (not the code they wish they had, but the code they really have) so that they can minimize the impact of changes; and
• Allowing developers to understand the impact of their changes in terms of affected tests, concurrency and bounds checking.
The Rosario release of VSTS will bring all project stakeholders together to allow richer information to be shared across every role to make software quality accessible and achievable.
Mark Mydland is the Principal Group Manager for the Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers product at Microsoft. In the past 12 years, Mark has worked as a developer and consultant across a wide variety of applications and industries. Mark first joined Microsoft in 2001 working as a member of the Natural Interactive Services Division (NISD). During his time in that group, Mark was the development manager for a team focused on analytics for assessing the efficacy of natural language interpreters with a particular emphasis on driving authoring simplification and relevance quality for user assistance. Based on this work, Mark filed numerous patents and coauthored a paper for the SIGIR journal. In 2004, Mark left Microsoft to work as a Director of Development at Getty Images where he led a change in process from a traditional waterfall methodology to a scrum-based agile approach which brought the release frequency from 12-18 months down to 1 month. Since Getty made extensive use of VSTS, it seemed a natural fit for Mark to join VSTS on his return to Microsoft in 2006. Mark received his B.S. from West Point in 1991. He has also held positions with USWeb/marchFirst and Andersen Consulting/Accenture. ec