1732 What's new in DevPartner Studio Professional Edition Done 8/07/06 Reviewed 2006 Aug 10 Testing Tools Software | Testing .NET Application Footer title: Testing Tools Software testing tools software, net software development kit, software development in net, application testing tools, automated software testing tools, software development net, net framework software development kit, web site performance management tool, application testing tool, web application testing tool, testing .net application, performance testing tools, web site performance tool, advantages of white box testing, web application software testing tools, computer software testing tools, website performance tool, white box testing software, web application testing tools, performance software tools Testing .NET Application : DevPartner Studio extends the capability and value of Visual Studio Team System with the most advanced diagnostics, distributed analysis capabilities and work item integration with Team Foundation Server. Now you can submit defect work items from DevPartner Studio directly to Team Foundation Server. Work item integration allows DevPartner Studio users to collaborate more effectively. Testers and developers can communicate detailed diagnostic data with one another in a Team System environment.

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Version 8.1

Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server—DevPartner Studio extends the capability and value of Visual Studio Team System with the most advanced diagnostics, distributed analysis capabilities and work item integration with Team Foundation Server. Now you can submit defect work items from DevPartner Studio directly to Team Foundation Server. Work item integration allows DevPartner Studio users to collaborate more effectively. Testers and developers can communicate detailed diagnostic data with one another in a Team System environment. Better collaboration and timely data result in faster resolution of defects to keep application development projects on schedule.

New System Snapshot SDK with royalty-free redistribution—Now you can enable your applications to take customized system-level snapshots on demand. Snapshots from your QA systems, production systems or customer systems can be automatically analyzed on your DevPartner System Comparison client to quickly identify configuration issues that cause your application to fail or become unstable.

New Code Review rules. Enhanced support for .NET coding standards and best practices with 21 new Code Review rules.

Improved support for Code Review customized rules. Learn how to create your own rules more easily with functional, customizable rule examples and supporting documentation.

Code Review exclusion capability. Now you can streamline and accelerate your Code Review sessions by excluding code that you do not want to analyze.

Improved support for automated Code Review sessions. New return codes signal your batch process when Code Review errors have been found. Now your nightly build process can do intelligent branching based on Code Review results.

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Version 8.0

System Comparison Utility DevPartner Studio supplies a Comparison Utility that takes snapshots of machine configurations, registry settings, system services, drivers, installed products, and so on. Two snapshots can be compared and the differences reported. These snapshots can be from the same system or from different systems. This feature can be can be invaluable when identifying differences in system configurations that may be causing an application to behave differently than expected.

Performance expert Analyzes an application at run-time and locates problem methods in the code. It then allows developers to view details about individual lines in the method. This feature allows data collection on Disk I/O, Network I/O and synchronization wait time.

Fault Simulator SE Developers can now quickly and safely simulate a useful set of location based .NET Framework faults to test their error handling code. Once an error has been simulated, developers can step through the error handling lines of code to diagnose and correct the bugs.

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Version 7.2

Static source code analysis support for .NET naming conventions Developers can ensure that their method and variable names use the naming conventions as put forth in the Microsoft .NET Framework General Reference Naming Guidelines document. DevPartner code review will automatically check for appropriate names and flag anything that doesn't fit within those naming conventions.

Dead code detection in static source code analysis Many applications end up with code that is ultimately never called. This code could be a source of errors and performance degradation, however, and makes the entire application more difficult to maintain.

DevPartner Studio Server license DevPartner Studio continues to support the ability to collect, correlate and view performance, coverage and memory analysis data from remote machines. Developers can now follow transactions of distributed applications across multiple tiers through the DevPartner Studio Server license. The DevPartner Studio Server license replaced both the Performance and Coverage Remote Agent and the Distributed Analyzer remote agent.

Support for use with Microsoft Terminal Services Developers can log in remotely using Terminal Services and use DevPartner Studio on the remote computer (requires concurrent user licenses). This grants developers the freedom to use a single copy of DevPartner Studio on one computer and to access that computer from home or while traveling. One can also use DevPartner Studio on a central lab computer from the user desktop, without having to walk to the computer lab and physically log in.

Additional functionality in DevPartner Studio:

• Full integration with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003
• Support for Visual Studio 6 with integrated error detection using BoundsChecker technology
• Distributed multi-tier analysis and correlation
• Enhanced performance analysis for web services
• .NET memory, performance and coverage analysis
• Ability to display code call graphs
• Ability to compare two performance profiling runs for differences
• Supports concurrent license borrowing

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