Best features?

Depends on your focus. Among the features are:

- Team Dev

• A profiler for finding performance problems in C++ or .net code.
• Integrated Code Analysis for C++ and .net code to find correctness, security, and framework errors and suggestions on best practices.

- Team Test

• Web test authoring that can be created from record/playback; parameterized; or even have customized code. Ideal for correctness verification and load testing.
• Unit Testing with ideal support for .net and automatic generation of testing stubs based on classes/methods in your pre-existing code.
• Support for executing unit, manual, generic and web tests in a local or remote environment.

- Team Architect

• Diagram and validate large scale loosely connected systems.
• Design web services, plug them in to IIS specifications and verify configuration requirements.
• Get code relationship diagrams.

- Team Data

• Great support for defining, maintaining, and altering database definitions.
• Compare tools to help synchronize schemas and data
• Unit tests for DBs. Support tests for your environments usage patterns to see if changes are going to break cliean usage.

This doesn't even start to talk about the extra goodness when they integrate with TFS itself for bug tracking, source control and document storage.

JoeRohde-MSFT at 2007-10-2 >

I like this new feature:

• Requirements test coverage and manual testing – test cases are now stored and managed like other work items. As such, a user can run a query to determine which Requirements do not have any test cases associated with them then create new Test Cases at that point. We have greatly enhanced our support for creating manual test cases so that each step can be called out with specific instructions and expected results. When running the manual test, a video recording of the screen can be made in case a bug is found during testing. If a step fails, the tester can file a bug directly from the manual test runner which will prepopulate the bug form with the test steps, a copy of the video recording and a link to the test case making it much easier for testers to create actionable bugs for developers.

Original post: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2007/08/03/first-rosario-ctp-now-available.aspx

tks

AlexandreTarifa at 2007-10-2 >

Alexandre Tarifa wrote:

Requirements test coverage and manual testing – test cases are now stored and managed like other work items. As such, a user can run a query to determine which Requirements do not have any test cases associated with them then create new Test Cases at that point. We have greatly enhanced our support for creating manual test cases so that each step can be called out with specific instructions and expected results. When running the manual test, a video recording of the screen can be made in case a bug is found during testing. If a step fails, the tester can file a bug directly from the manual test runner which will prepopulate the bug form with the test steps, a copy of the video recording and a link to the test case making it much easier for testers to create actionable bugs for developers.

That's really interesting indeed!

Timo Salom?ki

TimoS at 2007-10-2 >