Microsoft^® Visual Studio^® Team System code name “Rosario” is the version of Team System that follows Visual Studio Team System 2008. It is an integrated Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) solution comprising tools, processes, and guidance. It enables your entire team to:

• Collaborate and communicate more effectively with other team members and business stakeholders
• Ensure software quality using advanced quality tools at every step of the application life cycle
• Gain visibility into project activity and priorities to make informed decisions based on real-time data

This release of Team System will deliver key advances for software development teams in three key areas:

• Business relevance
• Quality focus
• Improved collaboration

Feature Specifications

Select feature specifications from this release of Visual Studio Team System are available online for your review. Join the discussion and help ensure Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario" meets your needs. For more information, see Visual Studio Team System code name "Rosario" Specifications.

Some of the major scenarios and features in this release will include:

• Joint prioritization and management of IT projects through integration with Microsoft Project Server
• Project management across multiple projects for proactively load balancing resources according to business priorities
• Full traceability (inc. hierarchical work items) to track project deliverables against business requirements and the ability to conduct rapid impact analysis of proposed changes
• Comprehensive metrics and dashboards for shared visibility into project status and progress against deliverables
• Powerful new features to enable developers and testers to quickly identify, communicate, prioritize, diagnose and resolve bugs
• Integrated test case management to create, organize and manage test cases across both the development and test teams
• Testing automation and guidance to help developers and testers focus on business-level testing rather than repetitive, manual tasks
• Quality metrics for a ‘go/no-go’ release decision on whether an application is ready for production and has been fully tested against business requirements
• Rapid integration of remote, distributed, disconnected and outsourced teams into the development process
• Easy customization of process and guidance from Microsoft and partners to match the way your team works
• Integrated support to build setup packages using Windows Installer XML technology
• Improvements to multi-server administration, build and source control

Discussion Forums

The Visual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario” Forums are an excellent resource for detailed technical information about the next generation of Team System. Ask questions and receive replies from members of the Team System product team, Microsoft Customer Support Services, Team System MVPs, and the rest of the Team System community. For more information, see the Visual Studio Team System Code Name “Rosario” Forums.

Community Web Sites

More Visual Studio Team System resources are available from the following Web sites:

• Team System Rocks
• OzTFS
• Microsoft CodePlex

For more information, see Team System Community Resources.

Team System Blogs

Get in touch with what the Visual Studio Team System team and the Team System MVPs are thinking and doing via their blogs. For more information, see Team System Blogs.