Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Essentials

Course Overview

Essential Visual Studio Team System helps software development teams successfully deliver complex software solutions with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System (VSTS). Discover how VSTS enables you to enforce best practices for software development. Enable communication and collaboration across the team-project managers, architects, developers and testers. Learn how VSTS enhances each of the roles in software development via project management tools, design tools, test case management, and customization. The course uses the latest version of Team System, Visual Studio Team System 2008.

Audience

Project manager, architect, developer or tester or anyone delivering solutions for the .NET platform.

Prerequisites

A familiarity with a .NET language (such as C# or VB.NET) would be useful. Some knowledge of XML might also be a help.

Course Outline

Course Highlights

• Use VSTS to enforce best practices of software development
• Understand the VSTS tools and how and where they fit into the project lifecycle
• Learn how VSTS can be configured to use different software methodologies
• Use graphical modelling tools to create a system design and validate its deployment
• Employ test-driven development to produce robust code
• Harness the power of source control
• Learn how to manage testing and track bugs
• Learn how to script Web tests
• Learn how to manage load testing and establish a load testing rig
• Understand how to do data driven testing
• Understand how to extend Web tests to add your own rules
• Understand how to use generic testing to wrap other test frameworks
• Understand how to do manual testing
• Understand how to use source control in VSTS
• Understand branching and merging in source control
• Set up a project portal to access all project documentation
• Understand how the extensibility points of VSTS can be used to customize it to your companies needs

Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Essentials / MVS05-ES