Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System represents integrated solution for management of lifecycle of applications which part the software tools, processes and the managements helping each member of the group to improve skills and to increase efficiency of joint work with other members of the group are.

As the product, Visual Studio Team System consists of the server and a set of client applications.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server is a server of joint work, the system core ensuring effective joint work of all members of the group and high quality of the software. It integrates in the uniform server of control function by projects, trackings of work items, control of versions, creations of reports and a business intelligence, management of assemblies and the leadership in processes. The Team Foundation Server server is integrated with the Microsoft Office system (Microsoft Excel and Microsoft Project) that allows business analysts and project managers to use familiar applications. Besides, the Team Foundation Server server supports access via the Internet to resources of the project and functions.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010 – allows to configure and manage virtual environment of development and testing. Works together with System Center Virtual Machine Manage and provides a command with opportunities of creation of templates of the environment, a task of criteria of quality and also check of changes in the environment. Such changes can be associated with the errors found means of Microsoft Test and Lab Manager and, thus, developers can open Wednesday exactly in that place where the error at the level of the application was found.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Suite provides to members of the group with different specialization the integrated set of means for creation of architecture, design, development and applications testing and databases. Members of the group can not stop joint work and use a full range of means and the managements at each stage of lifecycle of the application. Team Suite offers functionality of the following products:

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Architecture Edition – is intended for improvement of architecture and check of distributed systems. Using this product architects, heads of transactions and developers can visually create the solutions focused on services and check them in production environments before deployment.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Development Editions – provides to developers an expanded set of means for detection of the inefficient, unsafe and low-quality code, the recommendation about creation of the code and the automation equipment of testing of software modules. Using these means it is possible to create the code of higher quality, to reduce quantity of the problems connected with security and to avoid emergence of errors at the subsequent stages of lifecycle of development. Expanded means for change management of databases and testing of these changes and function using which developers and database managers will be able to increase labor productivity and quality of applications at the level of databases are also included.

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Test Edition – provides the full range of testing aids of applications and web services integrated into the Visual Studio environment. Using these testing aids engineers-testers can create, execute and manage tests and the related work items – directly from the Visual Studio environment.