Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management

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07/22/2011

By using the suite of tools in Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate, and combining those tools with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, you can apply proven practices to manage your application's lifecycle, from understanding customer needs through code design and implementation to deployment. You can use the instrumentation in these tools to trace requirements to checked-in code, builds and test results. These practices can help your team create software that is valued by your customers and that is faster and more reliable. You can use these tools to achieve the following results:

Plan and Track: Capture what is important to your customers, and track your project's progress. Enact processes and monitor their quality to help your team turn customer requirements into working software.	Planning and Tracking Projects
Design: Design functionality either on top of existing assets or from scratch, using architectural diagrams to communicate critical information about your team's software.	Modeling the Application
Develop: Write, unit test, debug, analyze, and profile your application using tools that are integrated with the rest of the application lifecycle so that your team can understand how your progress contributes to the project.	Developing the Application Using Version Control Using Version Control (Team Explorer Everywhere)
Build: Build your application using the integrated build system so that your team can ensure quality gates are met and see what requirements have been fulfilled in each build.	Building the Application Building Applications (Team Explorer Everywhere)
Test: Run manual or automated tests, including performance and stress tests. Manage testing systematically so that your team knows the software quality on any given day.	Testing the Application
Deploy: Deploy into virtual environments to enable more sophisticated development and testing.	Using a Virtual Lab for Your Application Lifecycle

To start to use these tools, see Getting Started with Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management.

For information about how to use these tools with Eclipse, see Team Foundation Server Plug-in for Eclipse.

For information about what has been added since the previous release of Visual Studio, see What's New for Application Lifecycle Management in Visual Studio 2010.

To administer Team Foundation Server, see Administering Team Foundation and Technical Reference for Team Foundation.

Team Foundation Server

Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server is the collaboration platform at the core of the Visual Studio solution for application lifecycle management. Team Foundation Server provides fundamental services such as version control, work item and bug tracking, build automation, and a data warehouse. Powerful reporting tools and dashboards provide historical trending and visibility into overall project health, and real-time metrics give early warnings of potential problems so that you can make data-driven decisions and course corrections. In addition, agile planning tools and integration with Microsoft Project and Project Server help you plan and manage your projects.

Microsoft licenses Team Foundation Server under the Server/Client Access License (CAL) model. Organizations must have a license for each running instance of Team Foundation Server and, with certain exceptions, a Team Foundation Server 2010 CAL for each user or device that accesses Team Foundation Server. If you have a client access license (CAL), you can view and update data by using Team Web Access, Visual Studio, and other integrated development environments. For more information, see the following page on the Microsoft website: Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing Whitepaper.

Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management

For more information about clients for Team Foundation Server, see Working with Team Foundation Clients.