Software development using Microsoft Visual Studio Team System: Lab ManagementVishal MehrotraSenior Lead Program Manager | Microsofthttp://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management/  | vishm@microsoft.com

Agenda

VSTS Overview.Hardware Virtualization – A quick introDemo: Virtualization in ActionDev &Test ChallengesHow Lab Management addresses them – DemosLab Management in a nut shellQ & A

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS)

Hardware Virtualization

Enables running multiple operating systems (Virtual Machines) in a single physical box

Virtualization in Action!

DEMO

Dev and Test Challenges

Loss of productivity due to time consuming and error prone setup of multi-machine test environments.

One click environment setup!

DEMO

Dev and Test Challenges..

Non reproducible bugs resulting in bug ping-pong and poor quality

Creating a rich bug made easy

DEMO

Repro of a bug made easy

Dev and Test Challenges..

Unable to release early and often due to process overheads.

Setting up daily builds is complex.Even if we get daily builds we need clean environmentsDeployment of N tier application is time consuming and error proneIs build quality good enough for further testing.

Daily morning automated build quality report with a cup of Coffee

DEMO

Lab Management in a nut shell

Improve ProductivityRapid setup of multi-machine environments

Improve QualityDevelopers get access to rich set of debugging information and environment with the same state when the bug was found.Consistently and reliably reproduce Test environments across client/vendor sites

Improve AgilityDevelop and test early and often through end to end process automation.

Reducing overall costs using Lab Management

Significantly reduces environment setup and application deployment costs

Teams spend 30% of cycle time in environment setup and build deployments.

Improves Hardware utilizationUnder 30% utilization of dev/test assets

Significantly reduces cost of bug fixingEnable easy repro through check pointingTesting against realistic environment helps early bug detection.

References

Lab Management Team bloghttp://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management/ 

Channel 9 Video on Lab Management http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Lab-Management-coming-to-Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010/

Lab Management session in PDC, 2008http://mschnlnine.vo.llnwd.net/d1/pdc08/WMV-HQ/TL37.wmv

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