Pro Visual Studio Team System with Team Edition for Database Professionals

By Jeff Levinson, David Nelson, David Nelson

Book Overview

Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) is the premier version of Microsoft's best-selling Integrated Development Environment (IDE) the Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Suite. It provides a collaboration platform for developers, managers and testers to work together. This book provides readers from any background with the information that they need to implement VSTS 2005 swiftly and effectively, whether they be architects, developers, project managers or testers. Updated to include coverage of the latest 'DBPro' extension for database professionals this book is the only reference needed to get started with Visual Studio 2005 Team System.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1484220129
• ISBN13: 9781484220122
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Apress
• Length: 618 Pages
• Weight: 2.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Great introduction to VSTS!

Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005 Team System (VSTS) was Microsoft's foray into the collaborative development and software development life-cycle (SDLC) space. As such, VSTS is a platform for companies with large development teams (at least ten developers, but it can be used for smaller teams) to communicate with each other. At its core, VSTS helps teams (project managers, stakeholders, directors, architects, developers, database administrators, and testers) manage and customize the SDLC on an individual project basis. Levinson and Nelson do a good job covering the different aspects (and there are many!) of VSTS is good detail and provide a great deal more information than the basic Microsoft documentation (of which I have read hundreds of (useless) pages). This edition of the book covers the four main areas of VSTS: Team Foundation Server, Team Edition for Software Architects, Team Edition for Software Developers, and Team Edition for Testers. As of the publication date (2006), the Team Edition for Database Professionals had not been released, so this edition obviously does not cover this latest addition from Microsoft. Tons of details and examples are provided for each of the functionalities in each of the four areas. This book is really meant for beginners and intermediate users who want to understand how to set up and use VSTS, and is not really focused on best practices of how to design and build software (many other tomes are focused on this difficult topic). It will help you customize the different parts of VSTS to your liking and is quite helpful in explaining the implications of the hundreds of different options in VSTS on your SDLC. Since VSTS is a new product from Microsoft, this book assumes you know very little about VSTS and very little about the different roles in the SDLC as it applies to the different VSTS product lines for architects, developers, and testers. As such, it explains everything to you in a clear top-down approach and then focuses on the details that you will need to use VSTS in the most effective manner. There are many useful reference tables for many of the settings and code samples when appropriate. Overall this book is great for beginners and intermediate users since it will help you get up to speed rather quickly on two flavors of the most widely used programming methodology types (Agile and CMMI).

I have to disagree

Normally as an author I wouldn't bother with a reply to this but considering "neo" wrote such an inaccurate and short review I decided to chime in. The book does contain walkthroughs and screenshots because it is a new product and no one had used it before - it can be used by the novice to get up to speed quickly. Having said that it also includes numerous undocumented features and details on certain areas of extensibility that are not even supported at this point (but will be at a later point in time). It also contains information on the future direction of VSTS and the reasons that certain aspects of Team System were created. While I'm disappointed that "neo" found the book as not quite helpful, I would be interested in addressing those issues next release. You can contact me via Apress. Jeff Levinson

Great Book on TFS and VSTS !

There is very little WRITTEN documentation on Team Foundation Server. This book tells you how to set it up and how it works in relation so Visual Studio Team System. This is the best doc I've seen out there. A must buy !

Great Book!

This book describes, in great detail, how to work with Visual StudioTeam System. It is broken up into logical sections which lay out who has what responsibility and how they would perform their work with this tool. It covers a lot of detail but presents the information in a way that the lay person could read it and understand it as well. The book is broken up into 4 sections: 1. Team Foundation Server This section explains the workflow process in VSTS, work items,project management, version control, reporting and Team Build. These sections show you how to customize the workflow, work items and reports. The section on project management gives the view of the application from the PM's and stakeholders perspective. The team build section describes how to automate builds and publish build results - very cool. 2. Edition for Software Architects This section discusses the designers in great detail and explains how they can be used in an enterprise environment. This section really shows that the authors are architects in an true enterprise environment and should benefit others in this environment. 3. Edition for Software Developers This section covers those features that will really help developers - Unit Testing, Performance Testing, Static Code Analysis (for managed and non-managed code). This was an incredibly beneficial section and describes how to extent most of the test types (with the exception of generic testing). It also includes a great section on data driven testing and best practices. 4. Edition for Software Testers This covers web testing and load testing. It also covers the full extensibility of the various test types and the options for using the test tools as well as a couple of undocumented features. It alsocovers test case management. Overall, this is an excellent book and will remain a reference on my desk for a long while to come.