Visual Studio Team System overview

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Visual Studio Team System overview

• Pierre Greborio
• Software Architect PEWay
• Microsoft MVP Solutions Architect

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The Software LifecycleWhat Weve Heard

• Building software today is very difficult
• My team is spread out and specialized
• Tools today dont work well together
• I need to be able to predict the success of my
  projects
• My organization needs customizable process
  guidance

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Visual Studio Team System Vision

• Drive up the predictability of software
  engineering projects
• Increase the visibility to drive decision making
• Drive quality early and often
• Increase the communication and flow of data
• Create a new level of productivity in software
  engineering
• Dramatic improvements towards approachability
• Friction free flow of data
• Integration of cross tool scenarios designed in

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Visual Studio Team System
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Team Architect

• Key scenarios
• Design connected systems
• Design for Operations
• Code visualization
• Documentation and conceptual drawings
• UML and more
• UML tools for software documentation
• DSLs tools for precise software development

• DSL tools
• Distributed Systems Designers
• Service Oriented Application Designer
• Deployment Designer
• Logical Infrastructure Designer
• Class Designer
• Common Features
• Multiple artifact generation
• Continuous synchronization
• Design-first mode
• SDM schema underlies Distributed System Designers

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Team Developer

• The Tools the Microsoft Uses
• Features
• Static code analysis
• Support for managed and native code
• PREfast used in Trustworthy Computing Code
  Reviews
• FxCop used to develop .NET framework
• Code profiling
• Based on two internal profilers
• Instrumented IceCAP, used by Windows Base and
  SQL Server
• Sampling LOP, used throughout MX, including
  Xbox
• Includes ETW events
• Sequence view examines running threads
• GC view of object allocation and lifetime
• Caller-callee, callstack, and function views
• Code coverage
• Basic Block Coverage
• Based on the BBCover technology that Windows
  Visual Studio use
• Application Verifier

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Team Test

• Testing is 1st class in Visual Studio
• Tests are Source Code
• Test Authoring Execution Environment
• Test View
• Test Explorer (Test Case Management UI)
• Load testing
• Web services load testing via protocol-based
  script
• Load patterns constant, step, custom
• Perf counter collection and threshold monitoring
• Unit Testing
• Similar to NUnit

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Team Foundation Capabilities

• Work item tracking
• Easy, Integrated into development process
• Design your own process Fields, Forms, States,
  Rules
• Extensive linking bugs, reports, artifacts
• Notifications
• Source Code Control
• Easy, integrated into development environment
• Integrated check in experience
• Scalable and robust
• Parallel development
• Notifications

• Build automation
• Scripted nightly build
• Reporting
• Integrates many of the Team System tools
• Metrics warehouse
• Automatic data collection
• OLAP reporting
• Trending, aggregation drilldown
• Project portal
• Single place to go for high-level project
  information
• Web access work items
• WSS based

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Team System Integration

• Delivered via Team Foundation Server
• Methodology Templates
• Work Item Types, workflow
• Check In Policy
• Specification Templates
• Reports
• Groups Permissions
• Integrated Help
• Phase Exit Criteria
• Exposed within Help
• Updated from MSDN
• Book series Addison Wesley MS Learning

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Pricing Design Philosophy

• Existing MSDN Universal customers can get
  Visual Studio Team Developer ORTeam Architect
  OR Team Test at or near current Subscription
  price

or
or

• Team Foundation available separately on a
  Server/CAL pricing model

Each Team System client product includes one CAL
for Team Foundation
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Summary

• Visual Studio Team System, an extensible
  lifecycle tools platform that helps software
  teams collaborate to reduce the complexity of
  delivering modern service-oriented solutions
• Microsofts offerings now include a comprehensive
  set of proven process frameworks, best practices,
  prescriptive architecture guidance, and
  integrated lifecycle tools that enable IT
  organizations to successfully deliver custom
  solutions on the Windows Server System
• Numerous industry partners have agreed to extend
  our integrated lifecycle platform and tools
  including
• Global Systems Integrators Unisys, EDS, Cap
  Gemini, Avanade, Accenture
• Tools ISVs Borland, Mercury Interactive,
  Compuware, MicroFocus, Telelogic, Amberpoint