An Overview of VSTS By Ramgopal Marepally

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Microsoft ® Visual Studio® Team System 2008 is an integrated Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance to help everyone on the team improve their skills and work more effectively together. Visual Studio Team System enables members of your team to:Collaborate and communicate more effectively with other team members and business stakeholders. Ensure software quality using advanced quality tools at every step of the application lifecycle.Gain visibility into project activity and priorities to make informed decisions based on real-time dataWelcome. My name is Raj. My goal for this session is to expose you to the features of Team System 2008 and demonstrate how these features can help you and your team collaborate to deliver the best software possible while providing complete visibility into the software development lifecycle.

Let’s start by looking at Team System from a bird’s-eye view.The hub of Team System is Team Foundation Server. As the central, unified team server, TFS provides a critical set of features which help enable team communication, and collaboration. TFS provides capabilities for Project Management, Work Item Tracking, Version Control, Reporting and Team Build.To use these capabilities you create a Team Project, which creates a defined working area on the server for your team. When you create a Team Project you choose a Process Template. The Process Template defines the structure of your Team Project both in terms of how it is configured as well as how your team plans to work. This includes defining how your development iterations will run, what data you will track in your work items, and more.On the client side of Team System is Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite. The suite consists of four flavors of the Visual Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE) custom tailored to specific activities within the development lifecycle. These Team Editions are the Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. Team members who only participate in one set of these activities may install only the edition they need, for example, a database developer may only need the features in the Development Edition. If a team member’s participation spans across these activities, they would install the entire suite. When you install the suite, all of the features of the four editions are available to you in a single IDE instance.For team members who are not engineers, such as project managers, Team System has integration with Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project. This enables a project manager to work with a tool they are familiar with rather than trying to learn a new toolset.For team members who would rather use a browser, Team System Web Access provides nearly all of the features of the Visual Studio Team Explorer through a browser.And lastly, for team members using other IDE’s, such as Eclipse for Java development, through our extensibility model and our third party partners, they can access TFS through add-ins.

There are seven key benefits you and your team can get by implementing and using Team System. They are:Improved collaboration and communication across the team;Using a defined process to drive predictability into your development efforts;Having a centralized tool for work item tracking to ensure everyone is working from the same plan;Integration with tools your team members are already familiar with;Working with a toolset that helps you ensure quality is a top priority at every stage throughout the development lifecycle;Integrating work fro all team members frequently;Real-time visibility into project data enabling you and your team to make decisions at the critical time.During this session you will learn about features of Team System that enable these seven key benefits

Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server enables team-wide collaboration by providing a unified team server for all project artifacts and support for team communication, including work item tracking, reporting, version control and more. When you create a new Team Project the work items, reports and process guidance is configured based on the choices you made. You can access TFS through either the Visual Studio Team Explorer of Team System Web Access.

Software development teams are made up of members from all disciplines – developers, testers, architects, project managers, and business analysts. Team System enables each team member to work in the tools they are already familiar with. Team System supports Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project for Project Managers, Visual Studio clients for architecture, testing, and development – including database development, and Team System Web Access for all team members, and a SharePoint based Team portal for business stakeholders.

When you create a Team Project you choose a process template, which configures your Team Project according to the defined guidance for the process. Integrated process templates help teams deliver predictable results, continuously improve and adapt, and effectively collaborate and communicate with team members and stakeholders. Out of the box Team System has two process templates, Microsoft Solutions Framework for Agile Teams and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement. Additionally there are quite a few process templates provided by our industry partners. You can even create your own process template if you can’t find one that suits your needs.

Quality is – of course – always important. Your goal is to deliver the highest quality software in the shortest amount of time (and for the lowest cost). Making quality a priority at the earliest and every stage of the lifecycle can contribute significantly to delivering better software faster.Visual Studio Team System enables development teams to deliver quality software by making quality a priority early and often with a quality-centric tool set. From tracking requirements during planning and development, to performance profiling to Web and load testing, Team System’s comprehensive toolset enables quality to be a priority.

With any development team at some point you have to integrate your work with the work of others. The more frequently you integrate the team’s work the more you can validate that everything is working together. Team System provides a full-featured version control and buildsystem, which supports…optimistic or pessimistic locks during check-outmerginglabeling get latest on editrelate a work item to a check-in create and share a shelf-set continuous integration scheduled builds

The last thing I’d like to discuss is your ability to make real-time decisions. The most important component to good decision making is information. With a comprehensive business intelligence reporting system you will have all the real-time data you need at your fingertips, enabling critical decision making when it is most needed.Team System’s reporting capabilities include project status, quality, build reporting and more.

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Collaborative Software Development using
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Index
Introduction to VSTS
Key Benefits
Collaborate and communicate
Manage Team Workflow
Drive predictability
Develop as a team
Ensure quality, early & often
Integrate frequently
Make real-time decisions
Visual Studio Team Suite
Key Benefits
Collaborate and communicate
Manage team workflow
Predict, Analyze and take decisions
Develop as a team
Ensure quality
High Integration
Reports in Real-time
Collaborate and Communicate
Team Foundation Server is a unified team server for all project artifacts
Advantages
Faster, more dynamic teams
Higher Quality
Ownership
VSTS provides
Various views of data
Data-entry integrated IDE
Policies for Automation
Notification
Portal Tools like Calendar
Manage Team Workflow
Team members can use tools they already know to manage team workflow, including…
Process Specific
VSTS Editions
Architecture
Development
Database
Test
Project Manager
Roles can be shared
Predict, Analyze and take decisions
Integrated analysis and performance tools enable you to deliver predictable results
Process provides
Structure
Understanding
Discipline
Alternatives in VSTS
MSF for Agile process
MSF for CMMI
Scrum
Integrated with
Project Items
Portal and Reports
Project Guidance
Built-in best Practices
Naming Conventions
Portal Site – document repository
Ensure Quality
Team System’s comprehensive toolset enables quality to be a priority, enabling
Unit Testing
Performance Testing
Load Testing
Manual Testing
Test-data generator
Part of Project Portal
Actual Quality Vs Planned Velocity
Unplanned Work
Velocity
Bug Rates
Bugs by Priority
Reactivations
Quality Indicators
Remaining work
High Integration
A full featured version control and build system supports frequent integration
Check in/out : New Features
Annotate
Folder Diff
Destroy
Get Latest On Checkout Workspaces
Policies
Branching
Reports in Real-time
Comprehensive business intelligence reporting system provides real-time data.
Team Foundation Server
Build Improvements
Continuous Integration
Scheduled Builds
Build Queuing & Queue Management
Drop Management
Multi-Threaded Builds
Multiple Build Machines
Specify Source Versions
Select BVT Tests
Version Control
Destroy
Get Latest on check-out
Annotating files
Folder Compare
Perf & Scale: Significant For >= 100K
Migration & Synchronization Toolkit
Work Item Tracking
Perf & Scale
Setup & Admin
Builtin Machine Accounts
Install on Domain Controller
Upgrade
WSS 3.0 Support
WSS Farm Support
Windows Server 2008 Support
SQL Named Instance Support
Non-default ports and websites
Client Certs
Perf & Scale
Additional Resources
Visual Studio Team System:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/teamsystem
Microsoft Tester Center
http://www.msdn.com/testercenter
“How Do I” Video Series
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb507749.aspx
Download the VSTS 2008 Trials and VPCs !
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/products/aa700831.aspx
Team System Case Studies:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb676820.aspx
Team System Blogs
http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry
http://blogs.msdn.com/teams_wit_tools
http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad
Presentation inputs sources
MSDN, MSDN Blogs
www.stephaniesaad.members.winisp.net
Questions
Thank You