Siva Jagadeesan has blogged that the best approach to automate a complex manual process (and his example was a build process) is to simplify the process before trying to automate it.
This is an approach that I’ve always pushed, and to take this a step further I argue that you can’t optimise or automate a process that you haven’t defined. This is embodied in CMMI insofar as a process area cannot reach the optimizing (Level 5) maturity level without reaching the defined (Level 3) maturity level.
The process optimisation process I normally apply is:
- Define the manual process.
- Simplify/optimise the manual process.
- Automate the manual process.
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Hi,
We have set 7 different Build Qualities in our TFS, and one of the build is not showing up of build quality 2 ,when we go to Build explorer of TFS, but we can see that build when we are Doing a query using My query tab under work items.Your help will be greatly appreciated.