Professional Visual Studio 2005 Team System

The launch of Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) is the most significant event in the software development lifecycle tools market for many years, and this book supplies the tools you need to take full advantage of it. Comprising three new role-based editions of Visual Studio, a server-side repository for all software development artifacts, a process enactment framework, and numerous integration features, VSTS is set to revolutionize collaborative software development.

What you will learn from this book

• How VSTS can enable software architects to visually model your distributed systems and deployment scenarios
• Various ways VSTS can help developers to write, validate, refactor, debug, and unit test your code
• How testers can use VSTS to manage test cases for unit testing, web testing, load testing, and manual testing
• How Domain Specific Language tools allow you to create a custom graphical designer using a domain model
• The two flavors of the Microsoft Solutions Framework and how the associated process guidance is included in the toolset
• How software development artifacts and process-specific work items are contained and controlled in the centralized Team Foundation Server

Who this book is for

This book is for intermediate- to advanced-level professionals in the field of commercial or enterprise software development who want to learn about the newest Microsoft tools.