Exploring Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools, Part 4 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

148 Minutes

Time to complete

188 Minutes

Course Outline

Module 7

Developer Tools Unit Testing (42:10)

• Introduction (00:50)
• Tools to Improve Code (01:28)
• Unit Testing (00:39)
• Unit Testing - Test First (00:44)
• Unit Testing - Other Features (02:01)
• Demo:Unit Testing (06:51)
• Demo:Test First (06:39)
• Demo:Code Coverage (06:49)
• Demo:Test Impact (04:43)
• Demo:Data Unit Test (10:52)
• Summary (00:30)

Analysis and Performance (40:32)

• Introduction (00:58)
• Tools to Improve Code (00:23)
• Intellitrace (02:16)
• Static Code Analysis (01:19)
• Demo:Intellitrace (10:57)
• Demo:Static Code Analysis (10:59)
• Demo:Code Analysis Policy (06:46)
• Demo:Rule Sets (01:44)
• Demo:Code Metrics (04:52)
• Summary (00:15)

Module 8

Profiling Tools (18:37)

• Introduction (01:08)
• Profiling (01:52)
• Demo:Profiling (01:38)
• Demo:Preformance Analysis (02:38)
• Demo:Test Settings (01:32)
• Demo:Call Tree (01:09)
• Demo:Profile Properties (00:53)
• Demo:Profile Application (04:11)
• Demo:Profile Allocation (01:05)
• Demo:Object Lifetime (00:36)
• Demo:When to use Tool (01:26)
• Summary (00:24)

Database Tools Overview (46:49)

• Introduction (01:04)
• Demo:DB Schema Tools (02:55)
• Demo:SQL 2008 Wizard (05:09)
• Demo:Make Changes to DB (02:09)
• Demo:Schema View (01:03)
• Demo:Code Changes (04:35)
• Demo:Unit Test (00:27)
• Demo:Data Generation Plan (06:56)
• Demo:Data Bound Generator (02:17)
• Demo:Create Local and Deploy (07:55)
• Demo:Test Case (08:33)
• Demo:Schema Compare (02:55)
• Summary (00:45)