Test Director Defect Mapping to VSTS Work Item

We have implemented 1-way synchronizer from TD/QC to VSTS which could pretty easily be converted into 2-way.

Was not that hard and we will probably turn this into small utility for others as well.

IlpoJuvander at 2007-9-8 >

Hei

Yes we have this now working as 2-way synchronization.

What it does, it simply takes out new defect from TD and copies data into TFS. Then when TFS status is changed, it will be copied over to TD (not to system status field, but other one).

Works quite nicely, does what it supposed to be doing and gives developers the freedom of doing their work where they should be and testers to work only with TD.

You can contanct me at ilpo_juvander@hotmail.com and I will give you some more info.

//Ilpo

IlpoJuvander at 2007-9-8 >

Some experiences

• Having this sync as a Windows service is great - no need to log in to Windows to run the synchronization
• All defects synced from TD to TFS will have the identity of the user that is set up to be the user logging into TD from the sync service. I may be able to replace this user with the user id coming from the defect itself so that TFS is reporting the correct originator of the bug
• Some information is dupklicated across several configuration files in the sync setup - so it's easy to make mistakes here and forget one change. I hope Juvander will look into having one tool to write the configurations back to the different services that are part of the synchronization
• Extremely short roundtrip on support questions on their web site. I guess sitting in almost the same time zone matters here

DagH.Baardsen at 2007-9-8 >