Tutorial for a beginner

Question

Hi, I'm totally new to TFS capabilities except the version control parts.

I'm doing some research for good tool to use for project management at my company, it will mean, new features requests, bugs reports, unit testing, automation builds, tracking on bugs or features.

So I'm asking is it possible to use TFS without any third party applications to let my product owners to post feature request's on lets say an web page, with priorities and information, and then I or someone else can couple some unit tests to the work item and start work at the work item and then mark it done?

I would really like to see an tutorial to set this up?, screen casts, blog posts, forums posts, something.

If there are any kick ____ third party applications I want to know about them to.

Answer 1

All the things you want can be done with VS + TFS out of the box.

You can enter new work items in the Team System Web Access (http://msmvps.com/blogs/vstsblog/archive/tags/Team+System+Web+Access+_2800_TSWA_2900_/default.aspx + http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE&displaylang=en)

To attach work items to an unit test, you can add the WorkItem attribute to your unit test (or add the work item in the properties of the unit test. (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.visualstudio.testtools.unittesting.workitemattribute(VS.80).aspx)

See for general help the  Home page for TFS 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/dd408382.aspx

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Answer 2

Hello Niclas,

You may follow Ewald's greate suggestions, in addition, the articles on MSDN Library will be helpful for your learning:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181232.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb130146.aspx

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