Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 with MSDN Subscription. Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 is the state-of-the-art development solution that empowers teams of all sizes to design and create compelling applications to delight users. You can use flexible agile planning tools-like capacity planning, taskboards, and backlog management-to enable incremental development techniques and agile methodologies, at your own pace. Use advanced modeling, discovery, and architecture tools to describe your system and help ensure that your architecture vision is preserved in the implementation. Bring development and operation teams together by using IntelliTrace in production, Operations Manager Connector, and Preemptive Analytics. Improve quality and reduce time to resolution by generating actionable bugs from deployed software, and effectively partner with the operations staff to provide data that gives developers greater insight into production issues.


Overview:

Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 is for teams managing mission critical software investments who need to evolve their assets to take advantage of emerging technology trends. Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 includes:
• Tools for Complex Code — Enable high levels of developer productivity in understanding, navigating, and evolving complex code bases.
• Quality-enabled team development.
• Architectural Integrity — Architecture modeling, refactoring, and validation to manage solution integrity and evolution.
• Quality of Service Enablement — Performance testing, load testing, advanced debugging, and operations integration services to help reduce MTTR (Mean Time to Repair) in mission-critical environments.

Features and Benefits:

Use IntelliTrace to capture the system state associated with an error
Eliminate the “no-repro” bug scenario through the IntelliTrace historical debugger which records file and registry access, exceptions, method calls, and other state information to allow code execution to be rewound and the exact error condition re-created.

Use IntelliTrace in the production environment
Capture extensive debug information while the application is running, allowing your development team to rapidly diagnose production issues.

Alm consolidation across teams and technologies
Centralize the Application Lifecycle Management across different teams in your organization with the integration provided by Team Explorer Everywhere with Java development tools or the extended ALM support for Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Visual C++.

Model and enforce the architectural vision
Manage the enterprise architecture with advanced modeling, discovery, and architecture tools to describe your system and actively enforce the architectural vision as reflected in the layer diagrams

Visualize the structure of an application
Visualize the structure of an application with UML 2.0-compliant diagrams, with support for Activity, User Case, Sequence, Class, and Component diagrams.

Describe and enforce dependencies
Use layer diagrams to describe the intended dependencies among the components of your application with dependency validation to ensure that the dependencies in the code conform to the intended design.

Use tools to understand the relationships in existing code
Browse and find code in source files and compiled code with Architecture Explorer, including assembly files, executable files, and binaries, and understand the relationships between various code slices. Plus, generate Progressive Reveal and Standard Dependency Graphs to understand relationships in the code base.

Test to ensure production performance and scalability
Apply constant, step, or goal-based load patterns for load testing. Analyze and interpret test results in multiple ways that allow rapid identification

Perform unlimited web and load testing
Test on an enterprise scale with an unlimited number of test nodes, including web applications with support for an unlimited number of virtual browsers.

Bring development and operations teams together
Link the operations team to the development team with the Operations Manager Connector. Get application performance monitoring and diagnostic information collected by Microsoft System Center to the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and use Preemptive Analytics to automatically create and update work items gathered from the production environment, allowing the development team to respond to silent production failures.

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