Exploring Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools, Part 1 of 4

Course description

Tracking and maintaining a software development project requires a team effort. With big improvements in the Application Lifecycle Management tools in Visual Studio 2010, project tracking can now be part of the development process. Anybody from team members, to project managers can now update tasks, check in code, run a testing matrix, report bugs and so much more. In this course you will start with an introduction to the ALM tools found in Visual Studio 2010 Premium Edition. These tools cover user roles, management, reporting and work tracking. Then the course will move onto version control with side by side code comparison. Then you will be shown the Team Build Architecture and working with Microsoft Test and Lab Manager.

Each LearnNowOnline training course is made up of Modules (typically an hour in length). Within each module there are Topics (typically 15-30 minutes each) and Subtopics (typically 2-5 minutes each). There is a Post Exam for each Module that must be passed with a score of 70% or higher to successfully and fully complete the course.

Meet the expert

Chris Menegay

Chris Menegay is a Microsoft MVP and a Microsoft Regional Director. His process tool knowledge is broad, but primarily focuses on the Microsoft ALM tools. Chris is the VP of Consulting for Notion Solutions, Inc., a consulting and training firm specializing in software development process improvement. He has written white papers and magazine articles and has been a frequent speaker on software development best practices at several industry conferences.

Video Runtime

153 Minutes

Time to complete

193 Minutes

Course Outline

Module 1

Introducing ALM Tools (20:11)

• Introduction (02:35)
• ALM (00:23)
• Components of ALM (01:15)
• Full Software Lifecycle (01:59)
• Microsoft ALM Tools (00:39)
• Visual Studio Professional (00:26)
• Visual Studio Premium (00:34)
• Visual Studio Ultimate (00:32)
• VS Test Professional (00:23)
• VS Lab Management (00:19)
• VS Team Foundation Server (01:19)
• Demo: Team Foundation (03:18)
• Modeling - VS Ultimate (00:23)
• UML (00:07)
• Layer Diagrams (00:06)
• Direct Graph Diagram (00:11)
• Software Testing (01:05)
• Test Manager (00:23)
• Performance Testing (00:12)
• Developer Code Quality (00:46)
• Database Change Management (00:44)
• Team Foundation Server (00:53)
• Team Foundation Build (00:48)
• Summary (00:40)

Management And Reporting (26:22)

• Introduction (00:56)
• Reporting Goals (00:26)
• Standard Reports (01:07)
• Test Plan Progress (00:30)
• Bug Trend (00:37)
• Bug Status (00:18)
• Reactivations (00:38)
• Status by Iteration (00:21)
• Build Success Over Time (00:36)
• Build Quality Indicators (00:54)
• Adhoc Reporting (01:18)
• Demo: Adhoc Reporting (17:39)
• Summary (00:55)

Work Tracking Overview (36:49)

• Introduction (01:12)
• Demo: Team Project (00:23)
• Overview: New Work Items (01:17)
• Demo: User Story (03:13)
• Demo: Open User Story (03:06)
• Demo: Edit Query (01:46)
• Demo: MS Project (05:30)
• Demo: Rerun Open Users Query (00:22)
• Demo: Using MS Excel (05:11)
• Demo: New Folder (01:36)
• Demo: New Query (02:14)
• Demo: My Work Items (02:20)
• Demo: Areas and Iterations (04:33)
• Demo: New Linked Work Item (01:15)
• Demo: Web Interface (01:36)
• Summary (01:08)

Module 2

Version Control Overview (27:57)

• Introduction (01:06)
• Demo:Source Control (02:16)
• Demo:Workspaces (03:35)
• Demo:Branching and Merging (04:19)
• Demo:Branch Properties (03:17)
• Demo:Adding Code (02:44)
• Demo:Source Files (00:47)
• Demo:Work Items (01:29)
• Demo:Check in Notes (01:43)
• Demo:Policy Warnings (01:59)
• Demo:Chainset (02:21)
• Demo:Branch History (01:39)
• Summary (00:37)

Version Control Features (41:52)

• Introduction (00:38)
• Demo:Version Control (01:33)
• Demo:Merge (03:40)
• Demo:Track Changeset (01:20)
• Demo:Changeset Viewer (00:48)
• Demo:Get Latest Version (01:48)
• Demo:Check out for Edit (02:23)
• Demo:View History (00:36)
• Demo:Compare (00:53)
• Demo:Branch and Merging (00:48)
• Demo:Apply Label (04:53)
• Demo:Source Control (01:16)
• Demo:Shelve (06:16)
• Demo:Annotate (02:41)
• Demo:Merge Conflicts (11:13)
• Summary (00:57)