Recorded Webcast 

This is an overview of the Visual Studio 2010 ALM tools and highlights the difference between 2008 and 2010. Key emphasis will also be put on what migration steps need to be taken to make use of all of the new features, including the testing tools, version control, work item tracking and build enhancements. As a basis for demonstration, the development processes and practices used to create Notion Tools for Team System will be demonstrated, including branching models, build and deployment automation, custom reporting and workflows.
 
*New features for the development, testing and architect tools will be mentioned briefly in this session. Please attend the specific sessions for those tools for more detailed information.

This is an overview of the Visual Studio 2010 ALM testing tools including using the new Microsoft Test & Lab Manager to manage your testing and using test automation to automate your UI testing. The use of Test Lab will be discussed as a means of automating the creation of virtual environments for testing purposes. Deploying to VM environments during build will be demonstrated and facilitate a robust developer/tester lifecycle. For a taste of real-world use, the test plans and test process used to perform multi-platform testing of Notion Tools for Team System will be demonstrated.

Managing Requirements with Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010

Requirements management is a struggle for many organizations. A distinction must be drawn between requirements elicitation, requirements documentation and requirements management. Team Foundation Server provides rich capabilities for managing requirements and can easily be integrated in with your preferred tools for documenting requirements.  The best practices of requirement elicitation, documentation, management and traceability will all be discussed within the context of the requirement lifecycle and how TFS 2010 and third party tools can be utilized to maximize your overall requirements management process.