2. The Visual Studio Vision
Build the right product for customers
Reduce development complexity
Improve software team communication
Foster a vibrant partner ecosystem
3. Visual Studio 2005
“Personalized productivity”
Hobbyists
Students
Enthusiasts
Novices
Project Managers
Web Professionals
VB6 Devs
Part-Timers
Solo Professionals
Testers
Consultants
Architects
Enterprise Devs
4. The Software Lifecycle
What We’ve Heard
“Building software today is very
difficult”
“My team is spread out and
specialized”
“Tools today don’t work well together”
“I need to be able to predict the
success of my projects”
“My organization needs customizable
process guidance”
5. Silos in the IT Lifecycle
Project
Manager
Infrastructure
Architect
Business
Stakeholder
Developer
Tester
Solution
Architect
7. Communication Barriers
Developers don’t
understand operations
policy
Solution
Infrastructure
Architect
Increase communication
Architect collaboration
and
via product integration
IT Operations doesn’t
understand application
structure
Reduce complexity
through operations
knowledge
Pockets of information within disciplines
Unclear delineation of responsibilities
Conflicting best practices and architectures
Conflicting strategic goals and objectives
8. Core Tenets to Success
Tools need to…
…reduce the complexity of delivering
modern service-oriented solutions
…be tightly integrated and facilitate better
team collaboration
…enable customization and extensibility
by organizations and ISVs
10. Team
Communication
Enterprise SCC, reporting, issue
tracking, project management
Quality Early
and Often
Static Analysis, performance
profiling, unit testing, load testing
Designing for
Operations
SOA Designer, Logical datacenter
designer, validations
Platform for
Innovation
Web service based, open protocols,
client APIs, extending today’s VSIP
11. Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Software Architects
Software Developers
Software Testers
Application Designer
Dynamic Code Analyzer
Load Testing
System Designer
Static Code Analyzer
Manual Testing
Logical Datacenter Designer
Code Profiler
Test Case Management
Deployment Designer
Unit Testing
Code Coverage
Class Designer (in Visual Studio Standard Edition and higher)
Visio for Enterprise Architects (in MSDN Premium Subscription)
Team Explorer (includes Team Foundation Server CAL)
Visual Studio
Team Foundation Server
Change Management
Reporting
Integration Services
Team Build
Work Item Tracking
Project Portal
Project Management
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12. Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Software Architects
Software Developers
Software Testers
Application Designer
Dynamic Code Analyzer
Load Testing
System Designer
Static Code Analyzer
Manual Testing
Logical Datacenter Designer
Code Profiler
Test Case Management
Deployment Designer
Unit Testing
Code Coverage
Class Designer (in Visual Studio Standard Edition and higher)
Class Designer (in Visual Studio Standard Edition and higher)
Class Designer (in Visual Studio Standard Edition and higher)
Visio for Enterprise Architects (in MSDN Premium Subscription)
Team Explorer (includes Team Foundation Server CAL)
Visual Studio
Team Foundation Server
Change Management
Reporting
Integration Services
Team Build
Work Item Tracking
Project Portal
Project Management
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13. Team Edition (Architects)
Application Designer
Logical Datacenter Designer
Whiteboard mode for application design
Validation against logical infrastructure
Visualize relationships of distributed systems
Settings and constraints editor
SDM generation and compiler
System Designer and Deployment Designer
Binds application design to datacenter design
Enables creation of composable systems
14. Team Edition (Architects)
Problem Space
Customers have communication problems
between
Architects and Developers
Development and Operations
Deployment problems caught too late
Customers recognize value of modeling tools
Developers do not work within architectural guidelines
Visualization of designs
Higher level abstractions simply design and development
Generation `of code and other artifacts can improve
productivity
Modeling tools have poor history of success
Positive: good for documentation
Negative: CASE baggage, round-tripping complexities,
not used for software development
15. Team Edition (Architects)
Key scenarios
Design connected
systems
“Design for
Operations”
Code visualization
Documentation and
conceptual drawings
UML and more
UML tools for software
documentation (Visio
for Enterprise
Architects)
DSLs tools for precise
software development
DSL tools
Distributed Systems
Designers
Application Designer
System Designer
Logical Datacenter
Designer
Deployment Designer
Class Designer
Common Features
Multiple artifact
generation
Continuous
synchronization
Design-first mode
SDM schema underlies
Distributed System
Designers
19. Team Edition (Architects)
V2 Roadmap
Support for Indigo service framework
Contract Designer
Business Process Designer
20. Team Edition (Architects)
Partner Opportunities
Designer extensibility
Extend SDM schema
Add constraints
Build new designers using MDF
framework
Tool-building tools
Plan to make available post-Whidbey
21. Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Software Architects
Software Developers
Software Testers
Application Designer
Dynamic Code Analyzer
Load Testing
System Designer
Static Code Analyzer
Manual Testing
Logical Datacenter Designer
Code Profiler
Test Case Management
Deployment Designer
Unit Testing
Unit Testing
Code Coverage
Class Designer (in Visual Studio Standard Edition and higher)
Visio for Enterprise Architects (in MSDN Premium Subscription)
Team Explorer (includes Team Foundation Server CAL)
Visual Studio
Team Foundation Server
Change Management
Reporting
Integration Services
Team Build
Work Item Tracking
Project Portal
Project Management
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22. Team Edition (Developers)
Static code analysis
Code profiling
Support for managed and native code
Sequence view examines running threads
GC view of object allocation and lifetime
Caller-callee, callstack, and function views
Code coverage
Integrated unit testing and framework
23. Team Edition (Developers)
Problem Space
Customers lack predictability and
productivity in the lifecycle of their
applications
Customers are forced to context switch
between coding and lifecycle and other
engineering activities
Customers are forced to use multiple tools
Customers are forced to enter project-specific
data many different times in many different
places
Customers want to avoid defects
Defects are caught late, sometimes too late for
action
24. Team Edition (Developers)
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:
Includes ETW events
Sequence view examines running threads
GC view of object allocation and lifetime
Caller-callee, callstack, and function views
Code coverage
Instrumented – IceCAP, used by Windows Base and SQL Server
Sampling – LOP, used throughout MX, including Xbox
Basic Block Coverage
Based on the BBCover technology that Windows & Visual Studio
use
Application Verifier
28. Team Edition (Developers)
V2 Roadmap
Runtime Analysis:
System level profiling and application
monitoring
Integration of runtime analysis with
operations
Static Analysis:
Editor integration (Squigglies)
More rules & targets
29. Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Software Architects
Software Developers
Software Testers
Application Designer
Dynamic Code Analyzer
Load Testing
System Designer
Static Code Analyzer
Manual Testing
Logical Datacenter Designer
Code Profiler
Test Case Management
Deployment Designer
Unit Testing
Code Coverage
Class Designer (in Visual Studio Standard Edition and higher)
Visio for Enterprise Architects (in MSDN Premium Subscription)
Team Explorer (includes Team Foundation Server CAL)
Visual Studio
Team Foundation Server
Change Management
Reporting
Integration Services
Team Build
Work Item Tracking
Project Portal
Project Management
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30. Team Edition (Testers)
Load testing
Web services load testing via protocolbased script
Load patterns: constant, step, custom
Perf counter collection and threshold
monitoring
Test case management
Application Verifier
31. Team Edition (Testers)
Problem Space
Poorly written applications reflect poorly on
the platform
Testers are underserved and second class
in Microsoft’s tools
Testing tools products lag behind Visual Studio
Little integrated support for developer testing;
defects are caught late, sometimes too late for
action
Testing is not integrated into the lifecycle
Developer Tools and Testing Tools vendors are
rarely the same
Testing is isolated from development by
processes and tools
There is no common vocabulary or view of data
for rich analytics
32. Team Edition (Testers)
Testing is 1st class in Visual Studio
Tests are Source Code
Test Authoring & Execution Environment
Load testing
Test View
Test Explorer (Test Case Management UI)
Web services load testing via protocol-based
script
Load patterns: constant, step, custom
Perf counter collection and threshold
monitoring
Unit Testing
Similar to NUnit
36. Team Edition (Testers)
V2 Roadmap
Functional UI testing
Test Lab management
For Avalon, Windows.Forms, Win32, and
IE
Setup, tear down, distribution, and
baselining
Historical code coverage trends on a
per-method basis
Test case prioritization
37. Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Software Architects
Software Developers
Software Testers
Application Designer
Dynamic Code Analyzer
Load Testing
System Designer
Static Code Analyzer
Manual Testing
Logical Datacenter Designer
Code Profiler
Test Case Management
Deployment Designer
Unit Testing
Code Coverage
Class Designer (in Visual Studio Standard Edition and higher)
Visio for Enterprise Architects (in MSDN Premium Subscription)
Team Explorer (includes Team Foundation Server CAL)
Visual Studio
Team Foundation Server
Change Management
Reporting
Integration Services
Team Build
Work Item Tracking
Project Portal
Project Management
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38. Team Foundation Server
Portfolio creation and navigation
Project management
Microsoft Project and Excel integration
Change management
Project Creation Wizard
Process editor for customized guidance
Branching, changesets, shelving
Migration from ClearCase and VSS
Reporting and analytics
Project portal
39. Team Foundation Server
Problem Space
Fragmented information
Communication is manual
Can’t relate and query work items, work, processes and
artifacts
Tools sets are incomplete or poorly integrated
Difficulty integrating tools with existing infrastructure
People use the phone or face-to-face
Information is not captured
Distributed development aggravates the problem
Life cycle tools are expensive and complex
Tools are difficult to learn and use
Developers view tools as “overhead”
Administration costs are high
40. Team Foundation Server
Today’s problems, our solutions
Fragmented
information
Integrated Information
Communication
is manual
Stream-lined communication
Life cycle
tools are
expensive
and complex
Automated Data Capture
Complete Lifecycle Toolset
Common Linking Service
Extensible Team Foundation SDK
with web service based APIs
Common Project Portal
Cross Tool Queries and Reports
Common Notification Service
Access over the internet
Easy to use and cost effective
Deep UI integration with familiar
tools
Developer-centric capabilities
Easy to setup and administer
41. Team Foundation Server
Capabilities
Work item tracking
Easy, Integrated into
development process
Design your own
process – Fields,
Forms, States, Rules
Extensive linking –
bugs, reports, artifacts
Notifications
Easy, integrated into
development
environment
Integrated check in
experience
Scalable and robust
Parallel development
Notifications
Scripted “nightly”
build
Reporting
Integrates many of the
Team System tools
Metrics warehouse
Source Code Control
Build automation
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
42. Work Items Everywhere
Assign work items to
resources using
Microsoft Project
Author work items in
Microsoft Excel
Work items show up in
Visual Studio
View project status in
Microsoft Excel or
Microsoft Project
48. MSF Process Guidance
Integrated throughout Team System
Includes two process methodologies
Framework for GSIs and customers to implement
custom software development process
Harvests proven guidance from in- & outside of
MS
Instantiation of an agile software development
process
Instantiation of a formal software development
process
Customizable content, policies, workflow
49. Methodology Template
Delivered via Team Foundation Server
Contains:
Work Item Types, workflow
Check In Policy
Specification Templates
Reports
Groups & Permissions
Integrated Help
Phase Exit Criteria
Exposed within Help
50. Team Foundation Server
V2 Roadmap
Work flow
Advanced Distributed development
Automated Check in acceptance testing,
approval and review
Inter-work item flow
Replication, Offline
Better traceability
51. Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Visual Studio Team Edition
Software Architects
Software Developers
Software Testers
Application Designer
Dynamic Code Analyzer
Load Testing
System Designer
Static Code Analyzer
Manual Testing
Logical Datacenter Designer
Code Profiler
Test Case Management
Deployment Designer
Unit Testing
Code Coverage
Class Designer (in Visual Studio Standard Edition and higher)
Visio for Enterprise Architects (in MSDN Premium Subscription)
Team Explorer (includes Team Foundation Server CAL)
Visual Studio
Team Foundation Server
Change Management
Reporting
Integration Services
Team Build
Work Item Tracking
Work Item Tracking
Project Portal
Project Management
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53. Project Management Goals
Shape the Project
Office Integration
Rich Reporting
Instrument the Process
MSF 4.0 Integration
Process Customization
54. 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
56. Project Management
Assign work items to
resources using
Microsoft Project
Author work items in
Microsoft Excel
Work items show up in
Visual Studio
View project status in
Microsoft Excel or
Microsoft Project
58. Team System
Partner Integration
Improved shell extensibility model
Source code control integration
Plug-in and add-in integration
Web services for lifecycle integration
Share data with other lifecycle tools
Published schemas for modeling
“Shallow” extensibility for designers
60. Dimensions of Business
Value
Productivity, integration, extensibility
Lower installation costs
Lower operations and management costs
Greater efficiency through integrated tools
Greater efficiency through integrated
methodology
Greater efficiency through customizability
Greater team productivity
Scalable and reliable enough to host large
teams
Lower load testing costs
Increased predictability and reduced
project risk
61. Team System Version 2
Project
Expanded project estimation and management tools
management
tools
Integration with
enterprise planning
and portfolio
management tools
Integration with
enterprise
management tools
Dynamic Systems
Initiative
Integration
Expanding role-based lifecycle tools
with…
62. MSDN Transition
“License”
“Software Assurance”
Visual Studio Team Suite
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
Visual Studio Team Edition
for Software Architects
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
Visual Studio Team Edition
for Software Developers
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
Visual Studio Team Edition
for Software Testers
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
Visual Studio
Professional Edition
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
with MSDN Professional
Subscription
63. Licensing Model
Active MSDN Universal subscribers will receive a no-cost upgrade to
their choice of:
Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Architects
Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Developers
Visual Studio Team Edition for Software Testers
Visual Studio Team Suite
“Step Up” pricing
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
MSDN
Universal
Architect
N/C Upgrade
or
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
Developer
N/C Upgrade
or
Tester
N/C Upgrade
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
Team Foundation Server available separately on a
Server/CAL pricing model
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Server/CAL
Each Team System client product includes one CAL for Team Foundation
with MSDN Premium
Subscription
64. Upgrading to Team System
Promotional opportunities
Visual Studio
customers should
purchase, renew, or
upgrade to MSDN
Universal now
Promotional
opportunities to
acquire MSDN
Universal are now
available for new and
existing Visual Studio
customers
MSDN Universal
subscribers will get a
no-cost upgrade to the
role-based Team
Edition products
Special upgrade
pricing will be
available to move up
to the Team Suite
66. Our Philosophy
Commitment to…
Overall customer satisfaction
Transparency in features and roadmap
Increased partner readiness
Community involvement in design
Notes de l'éditeur
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When we set out to “build the right product” we analyzed all the different customers that Visual Studio serves. If you think back to the little old lady at the photo shoot, you realize that the Microsoft developer tools customer base is large, and very diverse. The product that’s appropriate for high end professionals like yourselves is probably not the right product for the hobbyist or the student or even the developer evaluating whether or not to make the leap to .NET.
That’s why we built the product line so that each product had its role, its very particular and very well defined customer base. This is what we call “personalized productivity”. Internally, of course, this gives us a lot of focus. We have studied, visited, and lived with each of these different kinds of customers. As a result, each team building each product is truly, building the right product for you.
On one end of the spectrum we have the Visual Studio Express products. These products aren’t designed for you and me. They’re designed for our sons and daughters, our spouses, our parents, our grand-parents, our neighbors. They’re designed for novices, people who have never programmed in their life. A few months ago we announced these products and made them available, and already we’ve had over 300,000 downloaded. We also announced content partnerships with Amazon and eBay. The idea is that these novices don’t know that they want to program. If you ask them if they want to program, they’ll probably tell you, “nah, Donald Trump’s on television”. But, if you tell can convince them to do something fun and interesting on their computer, something related to our content partners, then maybe they’ll put down the remote and do it, and maybe they’ll accidentally learn how to program in the end. That’s our ultimate goal with these products: to remove the myth of programming a computer, and expand the number of proficient and skilled programmers worldwide.
Of course, at the high end, we’re talking about teams of developers looking to work together to build Connected Systems. Most folks who build these sophisticated, mission-critical applications do so in teams. That’s why we built the Visual Studio Team System, which we’ll see more of in a few minutes.
In between is the professional developer who is working solo or in a very small team. Think of this person as the small consultant shop or reseller. They build specialized solutions in small teams. This is the heart and soul of our Visual Studio Professional Edition product.
But, there’s a missing piece. Not everyone needs the sophistication of tools that will help you build mission-critical servers, or to debug stored procedures inside a database, or even to build code inside a database. For a lot of customers, the tools that do that, our Professional Edition and Team System products, just have a ton of extra features.
For this customer we built the Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition. It’s the entry point for the professional developer. It’s as easy to use as the Express products, but it includes professional level features for VB6 developers and Web developers who want to move to the .NET Framework or for those developers who want to evaluate the full breadth of our platform. Historically, this developer has built client/server solutions, spending great care on the presentation layer. Of course, these days many of these same developers are building Connected Systems based on Web services. The Standard Edition product is the ideal product for this kind of developer venturing into a world of Web services for the first time.
We heard a lot of things from customers as we prepared this product strategy over time.
Building software today is very difficult: you need to worry about service oriented architectures, data tiers, languages, etc. This places a great deal of pressure on development organizations to make sense of it all.
Teams are becoming increasingly distributed and specialized, resulting in communication gaps both between roles people play in an organization and in geographic separation.
The tools that people use today aren’t very well integrated. They often reinforce a lot of the barriers that result from distribution and specialization.
At the same time, many organizations have much difficulty in predicting the success of projects. At any given moment in time, it’s important to know where the project stands. With specialization and distribution of people alongside the complexity of the people working on projects, it becomes harder and harder to predict that success.
Finally, many organizations perform a lot of ad hoc development, through processes that are cobbled together and not very rigid. True, many organizations have formal processes, and for those companies it’s important that the tools don’t restrict them from using that process. But, for a lot of companies, it’s important not just to ship tools, but to ship customizable processes.
Story about customer presentation where people doing the different roles somehow naturally self-selected sitting in distinct role groups
Top performing teams know its critical to break these silos because:
Geographically distributed
More specialized than ever before & increased specialization leading to more oppty for pockets of information
Need the agility to react to changes in the requirements or business environment
Need visibility into the data to make the right decisions
Shorter cycles to act
It’s not just about the developer anymore.
Applications are so complex these days, that a single development project involves a number of different roles across the entire IT organization.
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Further, modern teams are:
Geographically distributed
More specialized than ever before
Increased specialization leading to pockets of information
More engagement of business people
Shorter cycles to act
Importance of the “abilities”
Communication has never been more important
Success depends on communication
We can help with communication by giving:
Process guidance that shows teams how to build software solutions together
Architectures that clearly delineate roles in the software development process
Tools that are so tightly integrated that the barriers to communication are eliminated
Announcing Visual Studio Team System
To help IT teams become top performers, Microsoft needs to do more than provide developer tools…we need to provide development tools.
To that end, we are expanding the Visual Studio product line to include new tools for a variety of roles in the IT lifecycle.
Microsoft’s announcements around Team System include…
Visual Studio Team System, an extensible lifecycle tools platform that significantly expands the Visual Studio product line and helps software teams collaborate to reduce the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented solutions
Microsoft’s 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 platform
Numerous industry partners have agreed to extend our lifecycle tools:
GSIs: Accenture, Avanade, Capgemini, EDS, Fujitsu, Unisys
ISVs: Amberpoint, Avicode, Borland, Compuware, Serena Telelogic
With Visual Studio Team System, organizations can:
Reduce the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented solutions that are designed for operations
Facilitate collaboration among all members of a software team (including architects, developers, testers, and operations managers), speeding development time and ensuring the predictability and reliability of the development process
Customize and extend the Team System with their own internal tools and process frameworks or choose from over 450 supplemental products from over 190 partners
But, it’s not just about making Connected Systems easier. We still need to address the fundamentals of developer tools and continue to set and move the bar for developer productivity and platform support.
Announcing
Of course, a big part of MSS is the integrated tools
We’ve designed our tools from the ground up to…
Reduce the complexity of delivering modern solutions by constructing intuitive user interfaces and baking the process guidance directly into the product
Facilitate communication and collaboration among members of a software delivery team through deep integration of features
Enable a vibrant partner ecosystem through a set of Web service-based APIs for ISVs and businesses to plug into
Announcing
Of course, a big part of MSS is the integrated tools
We’ve designed our tools from the ground up to…
Reduce the complexity of delivering modern solutions by constructing intuitive user interfaces and baking the process guidance directly into the product
Facilitate communication and collaboration among members of a software delivery team through deep integration of features
Enable a vibrant partner ecosystem through a set of Web service-based APIs for ISVs and businesses to plug into
Team Architect Edition enables software architects and infrastructure architects to collaborate more effectively on delivering service oriented applciations.
We will deliver three major designers in VSTS:
The DAD: enables you to visually author your Web services and service oriented architectures
The LID: enables you to visually author your network infrastructure
The CD: enables you to visually author your code
Now, these three designers are great in and of themselves. However, the “secret sauce” of VSTS is that these designers work well with one another. First, the diagrams you author in the DAD are always synchronized with code. The CD, of course, is a class visualization tool that is always synchronized with code as well. When you author your Web services architecture, those changes are immediately represented in the CD.
But, most importantly…the architecture you describe in the DAD can be immediately validated against the network infrastructure you describe in the LID. This saves a lot of time when it comes time to deployment as you can have the confidence in knowing that the application you’ve built will, in fact, work in the network topology you’ll need to deploy in.
This is what we refer to as “designing for operations”, and it’s a key component of our Dynamic Systems Initiative.
Announcing
Of course, a big part of MSS is the integrated tools
We’ve designed our tools from the ground up to…
Reduce the complexity of delivering modern solutions by constructing intuitive user interfaces and baking the process guidance directly into the product
Facilitate communication and collaboration among members of a software delivery team through deep integration of features
Enable a vibrant partner ecosystem through a set of Web service-based APIs for ISVs and businesses to plug into
Team Developer Edition enables advanced developers to verify the performance and quality of the code they write.
Static code analysis: think of Static Code Analysis as grammar checking for your code. Compilers check your syntax, similar to spell checkers. But, static code analysis tools analyze the semantic meaning behind your code and can detect performance problems, security errors, and more. This is a productization of tools that we’ve used internally for years.
Code profiling analyzes your code as it’s running to give you more information on how your application is running. We’ll actually ship two code profilers in VSTS: a sampling based profiler and an instrumented profiler. A sampling profiler polls your application and retrieves information about it. Once you get that data, you can use the instrumented profiler. The instrumented profiler injects probes into your code at compile time. As your application runs, those probes fire off data which is collected by the profiler. This is a productization of tools we’ve built and used internally for years.
Code coverage and unit testing work hand in hand. Unit testing is an attribute based unit testing framework similar to JUnit and NUnit. But, unit testing only tells you how well your code has been tested. It doesn’t tell you how effective your testing is. Code coverage tells you how much of your code has been exercised by unit tests.
Optional anecdote about code profiling:
Last year, we brought a very large ISV up to Microsoft to profile their code. They used our code profiler after using several others already in the marketplace and were able to see an immediate 10-15% performance gain. We’ve always considered our code profiling tools as one of our competitive advantages. We’re productizing it and putting it in the box for you to use.
Optional anecdote about static code analysis:
As part of our trustworthy computing initiative, we have built a number of tools internally to help us detect errors in our code base. These tools, called PREfast and PREfix, were originally developed in Microsoft Research. We’re productizing all of these tools and making them available to you in the box in Team System.
Announcing
Of course, a big part of MSS is the integrated tools
We’ve designed our tools from the ground up to…
Reduce the complexity of delivering modern solutions by constructing intuitive user interfaces and baking the process guidance directly into the product
Facilitate communication and collaboration among members of a software delivery team through deep integration of features
Enable a vibrant partner ecosystem through a set of Web service-based APIs for ISVs and businesses to plug into
Team Test Edition is load testing software for Web professionals to test the performance capacity of their Web applications and services.
Load testing includes a Web test recorder that records interaction between the user and the browser which can then be replayed on a test infrastructure
The Load Testing solution itself enables you to customize how you execute distributed load tests on a test infrastructure.
Team Test Edition also includes test case management tools for organizing load tests, unit tests, and manual tests in one location.
The Load Testing software will work on any HTTP or HTTPS based application, be it .NET Framework-based or not. Third-parties can customize the load testing software to support other protocols.
Announcing
Of course, a big part of MSS is the integrated tools
We’ve designed our tools from the ground up to…
Reduce the complexity of delivering modern solutions by constructing intuitive user interfaces and baking the process guidance directly into the product
Facilitate communication and collaboration among members of a software delivery team through deep integration of features
Enable a vibrant partner ecosystem through a set of Web service-based APIs for ISVs and businesses to plug into
Team Foundation is server software for managing collaboration and assets across teams.
Team Foundation includes enterprise-grade change management tools for managing assets and work items. This is not SourceSafe, it’s built from the ground up on the .NET Framework and Web services to support large teams. We’re already using it inside of Microsoft and will roll it out broadly once we ship the product. It includes all the facilities for branching, changesets, merging, diff, etc. that you’d expect. The Work Item tracking system is a productization of the same tool that all of Microsoft already uses to manage bugs and track work items.
We’ve integrated with Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel as well, so that if you’re a casual stakeholder in the project, or just someone who prefers to work in Office, you can do so. The data in Office and the data in Team Foundation are always synchronized.
As you work and check in, resolve work items, resolve bugs, etc., the Team Foundation gathers a lot of metrics on your project and developers. This information is stored in a SQL 2005 data warehouse. All of this information can be accessed via SQL Reporting Services. We’ll actually ship 50+ reports in the box, and all the reports have associated Web parts which can be displayed in the Project Portal.
The Project Portal is Sharepoint-based. It’s created for every project portfolio so that you can manage developers, source code, and project status.
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Of course, a big part of MSS is the integrated tools
We’ve designed our tools from the ground up to…
Reduce the complexity of delivering modern solutions by constructing intuitive user interfaces and baking the process guidance directly into the product
Facilitate communication and collaboration among members of a software delivery team through deep integration of features
Enable a vibrant partner ecosystem through a set of Web service-based APIs for ISVs and businesses to plug into
Gaps in translating work
Which list are you operating from?
Difficult to manage project change
Team is disconnected
People working on stale info
Status from team members is pulling teeth
Inefficiencies between team members
Tracking, not managing
Tools stand apart from systems
Gathering metrics is cumbersome
Difficulty correcting systemic problems
Hard to find when you need them
Process changes aren’t followed
Painful translation from requirements to actual work.
I spend all my time mapping and remapping data
Gathering metrics from all over the place. Its a manual and time intensive exercise
My metrics, your metrics
Managing project change becomes a translation nightmare
Where is the project, overall?
Separate out the high level from the noise
Choose areas that will have the most impact
Want to use best practices
Hard to find when you need them
Cannot correct systemic problems in the team with systemic solutions
People need to go out of their way to follow the process
Need for more communication /Team is disconnected.
People working on stale info
From team members – what have I completed?
In between team members – can I start work yet? Why don’t those people
Partners can expand Visual Studio through a Web services based infrastructure. We’re working closely with a number of partners to help them take advantage of our extensibility model so that they can build tools that are integrated not only at a visual user interface level, but also at a data and workflow level.
A number of partners, from large and small ISVs to large and small Systems Integrators are integrating on top of Visual Studio.
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Visual Studio Team System will be delivered to customers on the following schedule:
Throughout the year, customers will receive numerous Betas and Community Technology Previews of the Visual Studio Team System
CTP bits are early access builds of the product and not as stable as Betas
Removing these bits may require reformatting your drive
Customers should only install these bits on a non-production machine
Visual Studio 2005, including the Visual Studio 2005 Team System, will ship in the first half of calendar year 2005
MSDN Universal and MSDN Enterprise subscribers will be shipped copies of all pre-release versions of Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System
Visual Studio Team System pricing or licensing terms are not yet announced, but we offer the following guidance to our customers:
Today’s Visual Studio .NET 2003 product line (and the corresponding MSDN Universal and MSDN Enterprise subscriptions) is designed for developers. The Visual Studio Team System addresses various roles throughout the enterprise lifecycle and as such adds significant new functionality
Visual Studio Team Developer Edition provides more functionality than the current Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect Edition product.
MSDN Universal customers may migrate to their choice of Visual Studio Team Architect Edition, Visual Studio Team Developer Edition, or Visual Studio Team Test Edition at no additional cost for the duration of their MSDN Universal subscription
Visual Studio Team Developer Edition is the default migration path for all existing MSDN Universal subscribers and contains a superset of most existing functionality
MSDN Universal customers may also elect to migrate to the Visual Studio Team System at an additional cost to be named later
Visual Studio Team System will be offered on a subscription basis to customers, as well as on a standalone license basis
