Application lifecycle mgmt

(ALM) and Visual Studio Team

System

Matti Antila

Microsoftmatti.antila@microsoft.com

Projects

Quality

IT PRO efforts

ChallengesCommon Issues

• Business requirements not actively managed

• Disparate tools and data

• Testing not aligned with business objectives

• Lack of defined process and guidance

• Limited visibility into project status to make

decisions

• Communication issues between team members

Application Lifecycle ManagementIdeal State

Our ApproachFocus on People, Process and Tools

Individual Team Organization

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Application Lifecycle Management

Visual Studio Team System

Visual Studio Team System

Visual Studio Team System

Visual Studio Team System

Visual Studio Team System

Visual Studio Team System

Visual Studio Team System

Visual Studio Team System

Team Suite

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Guid

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Team Foundation Server

VisualStudioIndustryPartners for 3rd

party products

Architecture Development Test

Application Modeling

Infrastructure and Deployment Modeling

Static Analysis

Profiling

DatabaseDeployment

DatabaseChange Mgmt.

DatabaseTesting

Performance Testing

Manual Testing

Visual Studio Professional Edition

Version Control

Work Item Tracking

Reporting and BI

Team Portal

Team Build

Test Load Agent

Code Coverage

Database

Code Coverage

Code Metrics

About 100 Times More

Source: Software Testing by Ron PattonPublished by Sams on July 26, 2005

Identify hotspots and

bottlenecks.

Connect to teamwork

Customizable SharePoint portal for team collaboration

Full fidelity team system integration into Eclipse 3.0 and higher with Teamprise

Eclipse plug-in

Track progression ofrequirement state from “untested”

to “passed” by successive build

www.microsoft.fi/alm

Next steps

• Get the trial

– ”VSTS 2008 + Trial + Virtual Machine” into your

favorite search engine

• www.microsoft.fi/alm

• Students

– www.dreamspark.com

• Startups

– www.microsoft.fi/bizspark