Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 aims to align IT and business goals through an integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) solution. It provides tools to support each stage of the development process from requirements through deployment. New features in VSTS 2010 include improved planning, testing, architecture and version control tools to enable more efficient collaboration and delivery of high quality software.

1. Richard Erwin Developer Tools Technical Specialist Microsoft UK

2. Agenda What is Visual Studio Team System? What’s Coming In VSTS 2010

3. Team System? What is Visual Studio

4. Microsoft’s Application Lifecycle Management Solution (ALM) The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. Computer Desktop Encyclopedia copyright ©1981-2008

5. Business Ideas Successfully. ALM is about ensuring are turned into software

6. A unified team server facilitates communication and enables collaboration

7. Integrated process guidance helps the team deliver predictable results

8. control How do teams workflow? Business Analyst Project Manager Dev Team Test Operations Change Requests Use Case Non Functional Requirements Bugs Tasks Production Errors Deployment Requirements

9. Work item tracking provides efficient and flexible team workflow management.

10. A quality-centric toolset integrated throughout development reduce cost helps overall project

11. Work item tracking ensures traceability . Metrics Warehouse Work Item Database & Queries

12. business intelligence enables real-time decision making Comprehensive

13. Completed Work Work Outstanding To be Tested

14. Test rates (pass, inconclusive, fail) shown in bars Against code coverage code churn and active bugs

17. Database Development Merging and

18. VSTS 2010 There are 3 Main Goals for Align IT & the Business Architecture Tools for Everyone Enabling Quality with Great Tools

19. IT Business Align and the

20. Hierarchal Work Items Improved Excel-based Agile planning tools High fidelity integration with Microsoft Project Server Cross project dashboard and reporting Simpler reporting

22. Integration with Project Server

23. Report Across Projects even without Project Server

24. Drill Into Project Health with Customisable Dashboards

25. Ensure smooth build handoffs and high quality builds HIDDEN Improved & Simplified Reporting Tighter Integration between Requirements & Test Cases

26. Improved Integration with Excel for Agile Planning

27. View burndowns & plan iterations

28. Architecture Everyone Tools for

29. Top Down or Bottom Up New Architecture Explorer Explore existing code assets visually Layer Diagram Visualize the intended architecture Validate code against the diagram UML support Use case, activity, and sequence diagrams

30. Layer Diagram Architecture Explorer

31. Logical Class Diagram Use Case Diagram Sequence Diagram Component Diagram Activity Diagram .Net Class Diagram

32. Enabling Quality Tools with great

33. File Bug Resolve as “ No Repro” Hand-off to Test Test Code Hand-off to Dev Verify Bug Write Code

34. Test Case Management Compose test cases, plans and suites. Integration with TFS

35. Standalone tool Enables execution of test cases Collects system data and event log Captures still images and video Enables filing a new bug

36. Manual Test Runner Application Under Test

37. Test Step Failed. Submit Bug to TFS Detailed Information about Test Steps Link to Video of Test Failure

38. System Information of Test Environment

39. Link to Test Cases

40. Screenshots, Videos, System Information, Application State

41. Right Tests Choose the

42. Toggle view: Impacted Tests Code Changes Run only the necessary tests

43. Which Tests Should I Run as a Priority on the New Build

44. Development All Wrapped up

45. Develop for the Top Databases Fully Integrated Development Manage Change across Dev Designer Integration Expression Integration Develop for all Products SharePoint Business Process Development

46. Making Parallel Development Simpler More features are Branch aware Work Items Annotate Etc...

47. Right Click & Select ‘Track Work Item’

48. Choose which Branches we are interested in

49. What branches contain Changeset 26 (associated with WI 223) Drag & Drop to Initiate Merge

50. Hierarchical View for better Visualisation

51. New Option for Gated Check-in Builds

52. Gated Check-in or Shelve & Build Edit Code Submit gated check-in Automated Build Edit Code Y / N Ready for Test

53. Test Lab Management

54. Create New Virtual Environment from Scratch

55. Pool of Environments for Testing Choose Test Plan, Test Case & Launch Manual Test Runner

56. Link to Test Environment in Failure State

58. Administration and Operations Full 64-Bit Support Flexible Deployment Options. Eg.Project Portal MMC Snap in for Administration Team Build Designer using Windows Workflow Build Agent Pooling

60. http://blogs.msdn.com/ukvsts