APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT FEATURES IN VS 2010

APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT FEATURES IN VS 2010

Features	Professional	Premium	Ultimate
Architecture and Modeling
Diagrams that comply with Unified Modeling Language (UML) 2.1.2: sequence, class, component, activity, and use case	No	Read-only	Yes
Layer diagrams	No	Read-only	Yes
Code-generated sequence diagrams and dependency graphs	No	Read-only	Yes
Architecture Explorer	No	No	Yes
Architectural validation	No	Yes	Yes
Integration with work items in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server	No	Yes	Yes
Extensibility for UML diagrams	No	Read-only	Yes
Diagnostic Tools
IntelliTrace	No	No	Yes
Static code analysis	No	Yes	Yes
Code metrics	No	Yes	Yes
Performance profiling	No	Yes	Yes
Schema comparison	No	Yes	Yes
Database Development
Database projects	Yes	Yes	Yes
Generation of test data	Yes: can run but not create plans for generating data	Yes	Yes
Database change management	No	Yes	Yes
Unit testing for database objects	No	Yes	Yes
Testing Tools
Web performance testing	No	No	Yes
Load testing	No	No	Yes
Unit testing	Yes	Yes	Yes
Coded UI testing	No	Yes	Yes
Microsoft Test Manager	No	No	Yes
Virtualization for ALM
Create and manage virtual environments	No	No	Yes with MSDN
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010	Yes: available only for Visual Studio Professional with MSDN	Yes	Yes
Version Control	Yes	Yes	Yes
Build	Yes	Yes	Yes
Project Management	Yes	Yes	Yes
Integrated Reporting and Dashboards	Yes	Yes	Yes

APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

Tools to achieve the following results:

1.       Plan & Track your project:

Enact processes and monitor their quality to help your team turn customer requirements into working software.

2.       Design:

Either on top of existing assets or from scratch by using architectural diagrams to communicate critical information about your team`s software.

3.       Write Unit Test, Debug, Analyze and Profile your Application:

Tools are integrated with the rest of the application lifecycle so that your team can understand how your progress contributes to the project.

Use Version Control to manage your source code & other files too.

4.       Build:

Build your Application using an integrated build system so that your team can ensure the quality gates have been meet and verify the requirements have been fulfilled in each build.

5.       Deploy into Virtual Environments:

To enable more sophisticated developing and testing.

VISUAL STUDIO APPLICATION LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT

1.       Microsoft Test Manager:

Enables you to manage and execute test cases outside Visual Studio, and create and manage physical or virtual environments.

2.       VS Premium:

Toolset that simplifies the task of building Applications, Advanced coding, debugging, database, & testing tools to deliver scalable, high quality applications.

3.       VS Ultimate:

It Simplifies Solution development, lowering risk & increasing return of providing tools at every stage of lifecycle, from design & development through the test & development. You can design your application in UML, or analyse your existing software assets. You can define your Software Architecture & validate the design when your team checks in & builds with Team Foundation Server.

  

Application Lifecycle	Team Foundation Server	Microsoft Test Manager	Visual Studio Premium	Visual Studio Ultimate
Plan and Track
Design
Develop
Test
Build