Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 Wrox Programmer to Programmer

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 Wrox Programmer to Programmer

Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010 Wrox Programmer to Programmer

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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.

Customer Reviews

Alfredo Fuentes Said: Good guide to understand VS/TFS 2010 ( Aug. 25th 2010 )

I just finished the book to implement VS/TFS 2010 and I can say that it is very well structure, and gives you the details where to start, what to focus on, it is very comprehensive.
If you know a little bit about VS/TFS 2010 you know that can be very complex if you don't have a good reference, well this is the one.
Good job and thanks for summarize !

R. Mcphaul Said: Decent Book ( Aug. 11th 2010 )

This books hits a lot of stuff which will help in Team Foundation Server 2010. However, if you are a smaller organization and not using all the features the book is very broad and thus focuses a lot of time on subjects you may not be using.

Steve Cimino Said: Merely OK, depends on your Experience ( Jul. 10th 2010 )

First I want to say this isn't a bad book, and is nicely written with a decent flow. However, I don't believe I'm the audience it should be targeting. I picked this up since I became the "newly" appointed TFS2010 administrator to implement that throughout the development team. While this book does have a few chapters on it, it really wasn't much more than I can get by doing a Google search and reading free articles. That said, I know some people just like reading a book instead of surfing the web.

I have over 10 years experience in development, and have been working with VS since its 2002 release. While this book does hit the highlights, most of this was information that I have already experienced (Unit Testing, DB comparisons, architecture/UML drawings). Additionally, the authors focus on the VS2010 ULTIMATE edition. If yours is anything like my organization suffering a budget crunch, we don't have $10K per license to shell out for that. We're stuck with the more watered down versions of VS2010, so you can skip many of those chapters -- nearly a third of the book.

I would recommend this book to software developers in the .NET realm with 2 - 5 years of experience and to those who prefer reading an already laid out format decided by the authors. If this is your case, go for it. If you're like me then I'd take a pass and hit the Web.

Jeff Hunsaker Said: Definitive guide ( Jun. 28th 2010 )

Customers and clients have asked me for years, "Is there a book that covers all this?". To date, my response was, "Not really. Check out these blogs..." Well not anymore. This book offers a tremendous baseline of TFS/VS 2010 information. I buy it for all my clients-at the onset of any 2010 implementation. Sure, you'll need to consult other resources to drill deep on specific areas but this book delivers a well-thought and congruent overview.

Tiago Pascoal Said: Comprehensive and a breadth book about ALM with VS2010 ( Jun. 20th 2010 )

The authors did a breadth approach to ALM with VS2010. The detail level is just about right, it covers practically every aspect of ALM with VS2010. While doing a depth approach would prohibitive in terms of size (and the time to read it :-)) a right balance has been achieved. It covers all aspects that are important giving you the why and the how not only allowing you to get you started but also allowing the reader to use the features effectively.

Well done and highly recommended