April 2008 CTP Available for Visual Studio Team System “Rosario”
It’s finally available! Seriously — this CTP has quite a bit of features that they have added and you can start to see that VSTS is and will continue to be a strong if not the best ALM offering. The new features are added to Head over to Jeff Beehler’s blog post to find out more details of what has been added…
I haven’t picked a favorite feature just yet :) The three I just really like the most across the whole offering:
- New Team Build System based on Windows Workflow Foundation
- Historical Debugging (this will really help with the Debug and Repro scenarios)
- Great Test Case Management System
Here’s a list of all the new features!
Architecture Edition
- Exploring the existing code structure
- Designing process flow as activities
- Designing user interactions with systems
- Designing system functionality as components
- Visualizing and designing types in systems
- Visualizing and designing interaction sequences in systems
Development Edition
- Simplify Code Analysis rule selection with rule sets
- Find and fix a bug using the historical debugger
- Identify the test impact of code changes
- Find a bug on a separate machine using the standalone debugger
Database Edition
- Building and using an off-line representation of your operational database as a “sandbox” development environment.
- Using Data Generation to custom-build data for testing your database application.
- Making and unit-testing schema and code changes in an off-line environment.
- Performing static code analysis of your programmability objects.
Test Edition
- Planning a testing effort
- Executing manual test cases
- Verify the fix
- Automate a manual test and add validation.
Team Foundation Server
- Managing an Agile schedule
- Easier reporting from Excel
- Managing features with the CMMI Process
- A new Add Files to Source Control wizard and support for drag and drop from Windows Explorer to Source Control Explorer
- An enhanced, non-modal conflict resolution experience, integrated into the pending changes tool window
- A new history view that shows labels applied to a file as well as how changes were merged across branches
- A new automated build system built on Windows Workflow Foundation, featuring dynamic build machine allocation from a machine pool and distributed build functionality
- Rollback for a check in (currently only available at the command line)
- Many Source Control Explorer usability enhancements
Be sure to head to their Connect site with your feedback!
Ed B.