Visual Studio Team System
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Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management is a collection of integrated software development tools developed by Microsoft
. These tools include IDEs, source control, work items, collaboration, metrics, and reporting tools.
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
. These tools include IDEs, source control, work items, collaboration, metrics, and reporting tools.
Platform
Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management consists of four products:- Visual Studio, which provides an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for development and client side interfaces for the other products.
- Visual Studio Test ProfessionalVisual Studio Test ProfessionalVisual Studio Test Professional is an integrated testing toolset developed by Microsoft that delivers a complete plan-test-track workflow for in-context collaboration between testers and developers, in order to increase testers’ visibility to the overall project.-Testing Tools:* Manual...
, which provides an IDE for software testers to create and execute tests. - Team Foundation ServerTeam Foundation ServerTeam Foundation Server is a Microsoft product offering source control, data collection, reporting, and project tracking, and is intended for collaborative software development projects...
, which provides Source Code collaboration and data storage. - Visual Studio Lab ManagementVisual Studio Lab ManagementVisual Studio Lab Management is a software development tool developed by Microsoft for software testers to create and manage virtual environments. Lab Management extends the existing Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management platform to enable an integrated Hyper-V based test lab.-Virtual...
, which provides a way for software testers to create and manage virtual environments.