Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010

Mohammad Ashraful Alam, Chief Architect, desme Inc. MVP

Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010

Agenda

Common Business ProblemsWhat Is Visual Studio Team System?A Brief Overview of Visual Studio Team System Feature and ArchitectureExploring Few Cool Features of Visual Studio Team System

Common Business Problems

How do we build high quality applications that deliver real business value?How can we ensure that all members of the team – both technical and non-technical – are part of the process?How can we get the most value from our existing code assets?How do we make powerful modeling tools available to everyone in the application lifecycle?

Team System?What is Visual Studio

Application lifecycle management (ALM) is the marriage of business management to software engineering made possible by tools that facilitate and integrate requirements management, architecture, coding, testing, tracking, and release management.Visual Studio Team System is a set of software development, collaboration, metrics, and reporting tools from Microsoft, to evolve ALM.

Visual Studio Team System 2008

Visual Studio Team System 2010

Visual Studio Team System 2010 Tools and Applications

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Suite 2010, includes:Microsoft Visual Studio Team Architecture 2010Microsoft Visual Studio Team Development 2010Microsoft Visual Studio Team Test 2010 (includes Microsoft Test and Lab Manager)

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Architecture 2010Microsoft Visual Studio Team Development 2010Microsoft Visual Studio Team Test 2010 (includes Microsoft Test and Lab Manager)Microsoft Visual Studio Team Test 2010 Essentials (includes Microsoft Test and Lab Manager)Microsoft Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010

What Can You Do With Visual Studio 2010?

Cloud DevelopmentParallel DevelopmentWeb Development (including Silverlight)C++ DevelopmentSharepoint DevelopmentWindows 7 Development (ex. Touch screen features with WPF 4.0)Office Business Application Development

Architecture Explorer Layer diagram Use case designer Activity designer Component diagram Logical class designer Sequence diagram Modeling project system UML Model explorer Architecture validation during build

Visual Studio Team System 2010 > Overview

Architecture

Historical debugging Test impact analysis Improved code analysis Improved profiling (especially multi-tier) Database extensibility


Development & Database

Multi-tier Environment creation and management Automated deployment Easily manage machine pools (that contain several physical hosts, on which we can automatically allocate the best machine to run on ) Network fencing Checkpoints


Lab Management

Test planning Test case management Test prioritization Project quality reports Manual test execution Diagnostic recording (environment, video, etc) UI Automation recording Coded UI tests


Test

Work item hierarchy & linking Improved Agile template MOSS & WSS Dashboards Simplified reporting Improved support for parallel development Rollback Build queuing and pooling Gated checkin Simplified setup Scale out of web and data tiers Admin console Project move/archive/restore


Team Foundation Server

Seems Lot?

Let’s see few of these more

closely….

Visual Studio Team System 2010 > Architecture

Architecture Explorer

Explore existing code assets visuallyThe Architecture Explorer Diagram offers multiple views of a system and show relationships between various elements.The screenshots next show two different visualizations of the assembly dependencies in my solution ..


Layer Diagram

Isolate code assets into layersArchitecture validation


UML SupportLogical Class DiagramUse Case DiagramSequence DiagramComponent DiagramActivity Diagram


UML SupportNew Project Type: Modeling ProjectAdd New Item ..


Use Case Diagram


Activity Diagram


Component Diagram


Logical Class Diagram


Sequence Diagram

Visual Studio Team System 2010 > Development

Historical DebuggerThe historical debugger allows a developer to set up a break point and move from it backwards in time. Not just the application pointer is turned back but the entire application is gradually returned to previous states. This hugely improves the debugging process, and it has been a long awaited feature. Remote historical debugging is also possible.


Test Impact AnalysisTargeted at teams will lots of unit tests, the Test Impact Analysis helps determine which unit tests are affected by a code change and suggests the test to be run.


Database ExtensibilityIn VSTS 2010 Development edition, Microsoft built out a very rich extensibility platform (known as a Database Schema Provider) to enable 3rd parties to extend Visual Studio Team System with offline design, development, testing and change management of non SQL Server databases. At Tech Ed 2008, IBM demoed an early prototype of the DB2 Database Schema Provider integrated into VSTS 2010. And in February of this year, Quest announced that they are building an Oracle DSP to allow Oracle developers to work within VSTS 2010 to manage their database changes right alongside their application changes.

Visual Studio Team System Lab Management is a new member of the Visual Studio Team System 2010 family of products. Lab Management enables you to create, store, and track virtual environments for use in application development, deployment, and testing.

Visual Studio Team System 2010 > Lab Management

Overview

On the server side, Lab Management service is one of the many services running inside Team Foundation Server (TFS). On the client side, the “Microsoft Test and Lab Manager” tool (earlier known as “Camano”) is still the tool to manage your virtualized assets.


High Level Architecture

Reference: Amit Chatterjee's Blog

Network FencingCheckpoints


Cool Features

Visual Studio Team System 2010 > Test

Overview


Test Planning


Manual Test Runner

Standalone toolEnables execution of test casesCollects system data and event logCaptures still images and videoEnables filing a new bug

Reference: Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010, Richard Erwin

Manual Test Runner

Application Under Test

Test Step Passed.

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Thank You!

Overview of Visual Studio Team System 2010

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