Microsoft outlines ALM plans

Company also touts pillars of Visual Studio 2010, which will include the previously standalone Team System 2008 Database Edition.

Under the banner of democratizing application lifecycle management, Microsoft is unveiling on Monday the next major release of its Visual Studio Team System platform,

Visual Studio Team System 2010, which has been codenamed "Rosario," focuses on collaboration between the different persons involved in the software development process. The company also is revealing "pillars" of Visual Studio 2010, which is the next version of the company’s development environment, and the accompanying .Net Framework 4.0 programming model. Visual Studio 2010 recently had been referred to as Visual Studio 10.

In ALM, integration of roles is key for the 2010 release.

"As we think about the challenge around democratizing ALM, there's a few different roles inside of the application lifecycle that we feel incumbent to do a better job of integrating so we can enable a collaboration between those roles," said Dave Mendlen, director of developer marketing at Microsoft.

These roles include lead developer, architect, architect/lead developer in one role, general purpose developer, database developer, and tester. "Our plan is to try to break down the walls between these roles," Mendlen said.

Visual Studio Team System has featured role-based products for testers, architects, developers and database developers. With the 2010 edition, Microsoft is recognizing a blurring of roles between developer and database developer and thus is eliminating the database-specific product, which has been called Team System 2008 Database Edition.

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