Almost there, new version of TFS Bug Item Synchronizer
Jan
20
Written by:
1/20/2012 9:27 AM
As time passes, it is time again to release a new version of this popular tool.
Biggest change this time is internal: TFS Bug Item Synchronizer is getting new internal database.
Previous one had couple of issues that especially big installations are suffering from. These are things like
- Fragmentation. As time goes by, database gets fragmented to to defragment database file takes time. On some cases this was taking 30-60 minutes which is quite a lot when it is done at DBService startup.
- File size. Database file size was on some cases growing quite a lot, especially if defragmentation was not run on regular intervals.
So to fix these, we had to change internal database and it actually gives some more possibilities as well, but those are coming a bit later on.
Upgrade from version 2.4 and below old database to new need to be done extra carefully, all needed steps are already documented in the Release Notes found in downloads.
There are also some enhancements how html is converted into plain text, especially due to QC11 having more html tags as versions before. There are still issues with this, especially with content that has not been edited in QC11 but migrated from previous versions, but in these cases the old method will be used.
ValueMap and CompareRule have now attribute to specify that values used in these two are not case sensitive in comparisons.
One last note on one change: TFS2010 is showing usually usernames in format of ‘firstname lastname’, but in case there are two persons with exactly same name, this is not the case. In this case format changes to ‘fristname lastname (DOMAIN\username)’. In the username list there might be two entries like this:
- John Smith (DOMAIN1\a12345)
- John Smith (DOMAIN2\john)
Support for this was added into TFS Bug Item Synchronizer as well, so username resolve works just fine on these as well and username part gets correctly into QC.
This new TFS Bug Item Synchronizer version 2.5 for Quality Center is now on the final stage of testing and will be released on 31st of January 2012.
Beta version is already out in the download section, if somebody wants to give it a try. We will give full support for evaluating it and even turning that into production version – if needed.