Today, one among the biggest challenges in software development is collaboration between the developers and testers, which effects the application life cycle and creates overall inefficiency in the hardware utilization. Microsoft has bought a solution to this by building tools required for developers and testers to work together. Microsoft has made available for download a new component of its next generation development platform, the Second Beta of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Management.

VSTS2010 Lab Management Beta 2 offers an integrated virtualization of application life cycle management to the customers. Microsoft Visual Studio Team 2010 reduces risks in software development and increases the productivity of your application life cycle. Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010 not only enables teams in accelerating and restoration of complex virtual environments to a known state for test execution and build automation but also integrates build development and verification. However, Lab Management does not provide the functionality to create fresh virtual machines. You have to use Hyper-V or System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) 2008 R2 RTM in order to create these initial virtual machines, and then import them into your project.

Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010 Beta 2 Features

• Improved setup and configuration experience
• Simplified Environment creation and edit experience
• Full-screen environment viewer
• Out of the box template for application build-deploy-test work flow
• Network isolation with support for domain controller Virtual Machines
• “In-Use” support for shared environments
• Provides Environment snapshot enabling manual and automated testing in way that is more realistic.
• Build-deploy-test work flow for virtual environments
• Setup & Config – verification and auto provisioning of accounts

Download Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010