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Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010

Overview

Get up to speed on Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) with Visual Studio 2010 through a combination of hands-on instruction and deep-dives.

Microsoft has packed a lot of brand new testing and modeling tools into Visual Studio 2010, tools that previously were available only to Microsoft internal development teams. Developers will appreciate the focus on practical implementation techniques and best practices.

A team of Microsoft insiders provides a nuts-and-bolts approach. This Wrox guide is designed as both a step-by-step guide and a reference for modeling, designing, and coordinating software development solutions at every level using Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010.

Visual Studio 2010 offers a complete lifecycle management system that covers modeling, testing, code analysis, collaboration, build and deployment tools.

Coverage includes:

*An Introduction to Software Architecture

*Top-down Design with Use Case Diagrams, Activity Diagrams, and Sequence Diagrams

*Top-down Design with Component and Class Diagrams

*Analyzing Applications Using Architecture Explorer

*Using Layer Diagrams

*An Introduction to Software Development

*Unit Testing with the Unit Test Framework

*Managed Code Analysis and Code Metrics

*Profiling and Performance

*Database Development, Testing, and Deployment

*An Introduction to IntelliTrace

*An Introduction to Software Testing

*Web Performance and Load Testing

*Manual Testing

*Coded User Interface Testing

*Lab Management

*Introduction to Team Foundation Server

*Team Foundation Architecture

*Team Foundation Version Control

*Branching and Merging

*Team Foundation Build

*An Introduction to Project Management

*Process Templates

*Using Reports, Portals, and Dashboards

*Agile Planning Using Planning Workbooks

Process Template Customizations

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 shows developers, testers, architects and project managers alike how to leverage the power of Visual Studio 2010 to streamline software design and development. |||This book is sold in the US by Sony Electronics Inc. |||This book is sold in Canada by Sony Electronics Inc.

Author Information

Mickey Gousset

MICKEY GOUSSET is a Senior Technical Developer for Infront Consulting Group, a consulting company focused on the Microsoft System Center family of products. He has been a Microsoft Team System MVP fi ve years running, a certifi ed professional in Team Foundation Server and SCOM 2007, and co-author (along with Jean-Luc David and Erik Gunvaldson) of the book Professional Team Foundation Server (Indianapolis: Wiley, 2006). Gousset runs "Team System Rocks!" (http://www.teamsystemrocks.com), a community site devoted to Visual Studio Team System and Visual Studio 2010, where he also blogs about Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server. He is also a co-host of the popular Team Foundation Server podcast, "Radio TFS" (http://www.radiotfs.com). He has spoken on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server topics at various user groups, code camps, and conferences, including Microsoft Tech Ed Developer -- North America 2008 and 2009. When not writing or working with computers, Mickey enjoys a range of hobbies, from playing on Xbox Live ("Gamer Tag: HereBDragons") to participating in local community theater. Nothing beats his favorite pastime though -- sitting on his couch with his lovely wife Amye, and their two Chihuahuas, Lucy and Linus.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    John Wiley & Sons Inc.

  • Publish Date

    April 01, 2010 

  • Print ISBN

    9780470484265

  • eBook ISBN

    9780470899984

  • Imprint

    John Wiley & Sons Inc.

  • Filesize

    14.93 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    696

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