What's New for Application Lifecycle Management in Visual Studio 2012

Planning and Tracking

• Create and manage the product backlog, sprints, and tasks.

• Run daily standups with a task board.

• Support multiple teams within a team project.

• Engage stakeholders to provide feedback about pre-release software.

• Illustrate requirements with PowerPoint Storyboarding and link storyboards to work items.

• Manage enterprise project portfolios and access up-to-date project status and resource availability using Microsoft Project Professional and Project Server.

Architecture, Modeling, and Design

• Create, read, and edit dependency graphs faster and more easily.

• Get more information about your work by opening and viewing linked model elements in work items.

• Communicate with others about the design by creating UML class diagrams from C# code.

• Implement your design more quickly by generating C# code from UML class diagrams.

• Import UML class, use case, and sequence diagram elements from XMI 2.1 files.

Developer Tools

• Work more efficiently by organizing work and reducing the impact of interruptions using My Work and Pending Changes.

• Enhance transparency and collaborate more effectively to product quality code using Code Review.

• Integrate testing into the developer workflow using Test Explorer.

• Find duplicated code in a solution with Code Clone Analysis.

• Collect diagnostic data for applications running on computers that don't have Visual Studio by using the IntelliTrace standalone data collector.

• Review Web requests in IntelliTrace recordings for ASP.NET Web applications hosted on IIS 7.0 or later.

• Easily debug code generated from text templates. Quickly customize the code generator by writing Visual Studio extensions.

Testing

• Conduct exploratory test sessions.

• Locate, view, and edit your test methods, UI actions and their associated controls in the UI control map.

• Quickly track your test plan progress using the Results tab in Microsoft Test Manager.

• Clone your test plan to work on different releases in parallel.

• Test Windows Store apps running on a remote device using manual tests or exploratory test sessions.

• Install and configure agents more easily for Lab Management for Visual Studio 2012.

• Include SCVMM 2012 and clustered Hyper-V hosts in Lab Management for Visual Studio 2012.

Team Foundation Build

• Define and run automated build processes in a hosted deployment of TFS by connecting it to an on-premises or hosted build controller.

• Increase the efficiency of your gated check-in build process by configuring it to build multiple check-ins at the same time.

• Run native and third-party framework unit tests using Visual Studio Test Runner or RunTests in a custom build process.

• Easily access, organize, and get information about the builds that matter most to you using the Builds page in Team Explorer.

• Debug builds more easily.

Version Control

• Work in local workspaces either in or outside of Visual Studio, even when you're not connected to Team Foundation Server.

• Manage your work, reduce the impact of interruptions, and facilitate collaboration with your team with My Work and Pending Changes pages in Team Explorer.

• Conduct and track reviews of active, suspended, or checked-in code.

• Manage shelvesets and changesets using My Work and Pending Changes.

• Review and modify code changes more easily using the enhanced Diff window.