TFS 2012

TFS 2012

Nico Geeroms

Team Foundation Server 2012

New Features

Project Management Features: Team Web Access

Team Web Access web interface – Home page• Iteration info• Team Favorites• Dates

Project Management Features: Project Backlog

Drag & Drop

Add new backlog items (user stories)

Velocity chart

Project Management Features: Sprint/Iteration backlog

User stories & tasks

Easily add tasks

Team capacity

Capaticy tab

Project Management Features: Taskboard (Scrum Board)

Displays tasks by state

Grouped by• User story• Team member

Interactive• Drag&Drop

Developer Features: Team Explorer

Tree view menu

Context specific UI

Web-like look & feel

More efficient development

workflow

Developer Features: My Work

Manage work assignments• Available/In progress/Suspended work• Code reviews

Suspend and shelve work

Remembers state of VS• Open windows• Breakpoints• ...

Developer Features: Pending Changes and local workspace

Pending changes• Improved detection

Local Workspace• Disconnected from server• Workspace information saved locally• Little difference online/offline

Developer Features: Code Reviews

Fully integrated code review process• Requestor & reviewer can communicate• Compare function• Highlight parts• Add comments

Developer Features: Merging

Merging: never easy or fun..

New merge window• Less painful experience!• More inuitive side-by-side comparison• Conflicts change

Developer Features: Stakeholders

Feedback manager for stakeholders

Improve communication stakeholders – team members• Screenshots – voice recordings – written feedback

Developer Features: Unit Testing Improvements

Previously after test project build: long exhaustive search for test discovery

Now: Smart Discovery Algorithm• Faster!

Developer Features: Run Tests After Build – Run/Debug tests from editor

Automatically run tests• After every successful build• Failed tests executed first

Run/Debug tests from editor• Easily run/debug tests• From under the cursor via shortcut menu

Developer Features: Code Clone Analysis

Find duplicate code snippets• Overview of matches• Compare via Comparison Tool• Grouped by degree of match

Analysis on solution level

Developer Features: Storyboarding

Create easy and fast UI prototypes

New tool add-in for PowerPoint

Developer Features: Exploratory Testing Improvements

No test case/exploratory bug needed

Include extra data about bugs• Screenshots • Comments• File attachments

User friendly UI• Big icons• Create & style notes in free-form field• ...

Developer Features: SQL Server Developer Tool

New DB Development Tool in VS 2012

Database Professional / VS Database Project with improvements• Table and Stored Procedure Designer

• Comparable to HTML editor in VS

• Debugging SQL Project using SQL Express LocalDB• Execute stored procedure without real Db connection

• Publishing DB locally and on Build Server• Same as deploy feature in VS Database Project + improvements

• SQLCMD Variables• Use any variable while build or publish

TFS 2012 - DEMO

Please visit our website: www.centric.eu