Preface

Seven years ago, we extended Microsoft Visual Studio to include Application Lifecycle Management (ALM). This change made life easier and more productive for hundreds of thousands of our users and tens of thousands of our Microsoft colleagues. In 2010, when we shipped Visual Studio 2010 Premium, Ultimate, Test Professional, and Team Foundation Server, we achieved our goal of being widely recognized as the industry leader.1 In 2012, we complemented the Server with the public preview of the hosted Team Foundation Service and started delivering even more value more frequently to software teams.

We’ve learned a lot from our customers in the past seven years. Visual Studio enables a high-performance Agile software team to release higher-quality ...

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