What You Need To Know About Visual Studio 2010

What You Need To Know About Visual Studio 2010

Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition, developed by Microsoft, is an integrated tool for developers as they design, develop and proof their development code. The process of Plan-Test-Track simplifies the developer’s job by allowing them to test and track the processes of a web site as the plan develops. Microsoft helps teams get up to speed with online training, available 24/7, ensuring the success of collaborations worldwide with Visual Studio 2010.

The best element of Visual Studio 2010 Test Edition is its historical debugging program, IntelliTrace. Debugging must be accomplished before the application can be launched successfully. State changes are often the trouble, but to pinpoint it and insert a break point for a line of code is tedious and time consuming. With IntelliTrace, an examination of the execution history discloses which line of code needs modification. Full call tracing can be turned on or off as needed through the Options menu, otherwise IntelliTrace is always on by default. Test Manager can also generate IntelliTrace files to attach fully debugged log files with their bug reports.

Testing Tools make it easier to view the relationships between layers and classes by drilling down, filtering and exporting to interactive class diagrams. The layer diagram displays dependency validation for a better understanding of inter-layer dependencies which occur if not given attention on separation problems. The creation of UML diagrams is a common tool for Team Foundation Server work projects.

Test templates include:

• Basic Unit

• Coded UI

• Database Unit

• Generic

• Load

• Web Performance

• Unit

• Ordered

Test and Lab Manager Features

Microsoft Visual Studio Test Pro has proofing and lab management features that make testing intuitive and efficient. As the tests are performed, code is debugged. And MVS keeps developers and other project members on the same page, effectively collaborating and moving projects forward.

Lab Management encompasses the entire testing process of application code with a full suite of management tools to allow management a virtual environment setup and teardown features plus checkpoint environments.

Integrated testing tools, the core of Visual Studio, ensure quality code is delivered as the project undergoes testing. The integrated testing features included are:

• Case Management

• Manual Execution

• Manual Record and Playback

• Lab Management Configuration

Additional Features of Microsoft Visual Studio

Application Lifecycle Management, ALM, help development teams to successfully build applications efficiently. ALM encourages collaboration and communication of all participants with its visible status reports of benchmarks, obstacles and triumphs and resolutions. ALM delivers a high-quality solution for decreasing costs and increasing production.

Team Foundation Server, TFS, is vital for the application lifecycle management solution by automating and streamlining the software development process. TFS also provides tracing and visibility of the progress of the project for all team members.

A full subscription of Microsoft Development Network, MSDN, is included with the purchase of Visual Studio. MSDN is an online subscription to a pipeline of software, services and support for development and testing projects. A subscription includes training, support and access to information for development and testing.