Introduction to Visual Studio Team System

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Introduction to Visual Studio Team System
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The State Of The IndustryResolution of Projects
ChallengesProject Success

• Project success has not significantly improved
  over the last 10 years
• Still only 30 of projects are classed as
  successful

How do you increase successful project outcomes?
Source Standish Group, 2004 Third Quarter
Research Report, CHAOS Research Results
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ChallengesLack of business alignment

• Why do projects fail?
• Lack of user input
• Incomplete requirements and specifications
• Changing requirements and specifications

Are you managing change to requirements?
Is IT getting involved in the business
initiatives at the right time?
Are the requirements being gathered initially the
right ones?
Source Forrester, September 2006, Trends The
Root Of The Problem Poor Requirements, Carey
Schwaber, 2006
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ChallengesQuality

• Critical to Project Success
• Software quality errors cost U.S. businesses over
  59 billion annually
• The bulk of this cost is absorbed by the end
  users of the software

How do you improve software quality?
Source NIST, The Economic Impacts of Inadequate
Infrastructure for Software Testing 2002
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Barriers To SuccessIncreased complexity
ChallengesComplexity
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ChallengesOperations and Maintenance Cost

• On average, IT organizations spend 75 of their
  software budget on ongoing operations and
  maintenance

How do you deliver on the CIOs priorities when
you spend 75 on ops and maintenance?
Source Forrester, Performance-Driven
Development, Carey Schwaber, 2006
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Visual Studio Team SystemApplication Life Cycle
Management (ALM) Solution
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The Clients
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So Whats better about these Visual Studio
Clients?

• These are all FULL versions of Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Professional at the core
• Build any type of application (Web, Windows,
  Device, etc)
• They ADD specific tools to drive
• Quality
• Productivity
• New Capabilities

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Visual Studio Team SystemTeam Edition for
Software Developers

• Static code analysis
• Support for managed and native code
• Locate security vulnerabilities and coding errors
• Code profiling
• Identify performance bottlenecks
• Reduce memory usage
• Integrated unit testing and test harness
• Code coverage
• Determine effectiveness of tests

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Class Diagrams
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Integrated Unit Testing
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Code Profiling
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Code Coverage
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Static Analysis
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Visual Studio Team SystemTeam Edition for
Software Architects

• Application Designer
• Whiteboard mode for application design
• Validation against logical infrastructure
• Visualize relationships of distributed systems
• Logical Datacenter Designer
• Settings and constraints editor
• SDM generation and compiler
• System Designer and Deployment Designer
• Binds application design to datacenter design
• Enables creation of composable systems

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Design For Operations
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Distributed Application Architecture
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Visual Studio Team SystemProject Managers

• Integrated tools for Microsoft Project and Excel
  for project management activities
• Familiar user interface and tools
• Full bi-directional synchronizationto enable
  single, real-time view ofproject status
• Team Explorer client for access to work items,
  documents, reports, team builds and version
  control

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Visual Studio Team SystemTeam Edition for
Database Professionals

• Take control of database change
• Offline, change management of the database schema
• Automated refactoring of database objects
• Automate database testing to improve quality
• Unit testing for database queries
• Automatic generation of meaningful test data
• Bring data professionals into the lifecycle
• Provide full Visual Studio Team System support
• Support Work Item tracking for database changes

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Database Testing
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Test Data Generation
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Visual Studio Team SystemTeam Edition for
Software Testers

• Manual testing
• Unit testing
• Web testing
• Auto web record-playback and code generation
• Web services testing via protocol-based script
• Load testing
• Parallel distributed unit and functional testing
• Pre-configured and custom load patterns
• Pre-set counter collection and threshold
  monitoring
• Generic tests
• Custom test types
• Test management and linkage to Build services

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Manual Testing
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Web Testing
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Load Testing
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Visual Studio Team SystemPatterns and Practices

• Microsoft patterns and practices are Microsoft's
  recommendations for how to design, develop,
  deploy, and operate architecturally sound
  applications for the Microsoft application
  platform
• Microsoft patterns and practices contain
  deeptechnical guidance and tested source code
  based on real-world experience
• There are four types of patterns and practices
• Software Factories
• Guides
• Reference Implementations
• Application Blocks

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Visual Studio Team System Team Suite
Premier version of Visual Studio Includes ALL
functionality in all Team Editions Simplest
Licensing Model Most Functional Model
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How do I get started?

• Evaluate the Team Editions today
• Trial Editions
• http//msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/aa7186
  67.aspx
• Get free Basics Training!
• Modules, Hands-on Labs, fully configured Virtual
  Image
• http//www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?fa
  milyid527E2A17-1DEA-4D0B-9484-6AE43D00E570displa
  ylangen
• Other VSTS Webcasts
• Search http//blogs.msdn.com/adamga for Team
  System Webcast

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Other Resources

• Visual Studio Team System home page
• http//msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/defaul
  t.aspx
• Visual Studio Team System community portal
• http//vstsrocks.net
• Slides
• http//adamga.officeisp.net
• My Blog
• http//blogs.msdn.com/adamga