Overview
The new Lab Management features of Visual Studio 2010 offer organisations many great productivity benefits. Lab Management enables development and testing teams to work together more effectively to optimize the build process and minimize regression-testing efforts. It helps reduce costs associated with setup, teardown, and restoration of complex virtual environments to a known state for build automation, build deployment, and test execution.
Lab Management enables testers to capture snapshots of all the virtual machines in an environment during test execution and attach it to the bugs they raise. This lets developers see exactly what the tester saw and more quickly and easily identify the root cause of the problem.
This two-day instructor-led workshop provides attendees with the knowledge and skills to install and configuration all Lab Management components including Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager. Attendees will learn how to create, manage and maintain virtual machines and templates as well as how to install and configure the necessary agents for deployment, build and test purposes.
Modules
- Module 1: Overview of Visual Studio 2010
- Module 2: Planning your lab environment
- Module 3: Getting started with WIndows Hyper-V
- Module 4: Using System Center Virtual Machine Manager
- Module 5: Creating Virtual Machine Templates
- Module 6: Configuring and provisioning virtual environments
- Module 7: Configuring Build-Deploy-Test workflow
- Module 8: Testing using Virtual environments
Audience
This course is unusual in that it crosses both development and IT Pro disciplines. While one of the primary groups to benefit from Lab Management is testers, this course is more focused at IT Pros and members of the development team that deploy their application.
To help ensure all prerequisites are met, organisations may wish to send a representative from both their release/development team and their IT Support areas.
Prerequisites
Attendees booking on this course should be proficient Windows users with knowledge of both IT infrastructure and development.
Attendees should:
- Be familiar with installing and configuring operating systems
- Have a good understanding of networking, using remote desktop and virtualisation
- Be familiar with the build and deploy processes for in-house developed applications
- Be familiar with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010
Format
This event uses a combination of both instructor presentations and hands on labs to provide a solid learning experience for students.
Price
AUD$ 1,795.00 including GST per student.
Includes the use of TWO high-end student pcs, catering and student manual.