Upgrading to Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 – What You Need to Know!

Upgrading to Visual Studio and TFS 2012

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Agenda

• Overview

• Client-side Upgrade

• Server-side Upgrade

• Migration Options

• Next Steps

Why move to Visual Studio and TFS 2012?
• Bring your different roles • Testing
together… – Exploratory Testing
– Project Management – Lab Management
– Business Analysis – Manual Testing
– Development – Data Collectors
– Quality – Automated Testing
– Operations
• Agile Management
• Developer productivity – Product and release planning
enhancements… – Sprint tracking
– Usability enhancements – Task board
– Suspend / Resume
– Unit Testing • And more!!!
– Code Review
– .NET 4.5

How do you get there?
• Upgrade?

• Migration?

• Coexistence?

• Iterative adoption?

• Instantaneous
adoption?

• Education?

• Pilots? Testing?

Where are you today?

• Client Tools • Servers
– O/S? – O/S?
– Visual Studio • 2003? 2008? R2?
• VB6 and other legacy? • 32-bit? 64-bit?
• VS .NET, 2003? – SQL Server
• VS 2005, 2008? • 2005? 2008? R2?
• VS 2010? – SharePoint
• MTM? • WSS? SF? MOSS? 2010?
– Eclipse? – TFS
– Other IDEs? • 2005? 2008? 2010?
– Third-Party Tools? • Lab Management?
– Customizations? – Project Server?
– Customizations?

Compatibility

• SxS Client Tools?

• File compatibility?

• Additional tools?

• Process Templates?

• Reports?

• How you work?

Requirements for Visual Studio 2012

• Supported operating systems:
– Windows 7 (x86 and x64)
– Windows 8 (x86 and x64)
– Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64)
– Windows Server 2012 (x64)

• Supported architectures:
– 32-bit (x86)
– 64-bit (x64)

• Hardware requirements:
– 1.6 GHz or faster processor
– 1 GB of RAM (1.5 GB if running on a virtual machine)
– 10 GB (NTFS) of available hard disk space
– 5400 RPM hard drive
– DirectX 9-capable video card running at 1024 x 768 or higher
display resolution

Visual Studio SxS

• Visual Studio 2012:
– Install along side older Visual Studio
versions
– General project compatibilityA with Visual
Studio 2010 SP1
– Platform targeting
• Managed code can target Windows XP and
Windows Server 2003 with Visual Studio
2010 SxS, targeting .NET 4.0 or earlier

• Team Explorer 2012 can…
– Connect to TFS 2012
– Connect to TFS 2010B
A Solutions and projects can generally be opened in VS 2012 without breaking compatibility
with VS 2010. There are some exceptions (e.g., Database projects).

B Reduced functionality when connecting to earlier versions of TFS.

Project Compatibility
• Compatible with 2010 SP1: • Yes, With Limitations: • No (Deprecated):
– Blend – Visual Studio 2010 – MSI setup (.vdproj)
– C#/VB Silverlight 4 or 5 Database (.dbproj) – Visual Studio macros
– C#/VB Webforms – SQL Server 2008 R2 – Windows Mobile
Express Windows Phone
– C#/VB Winforms –
– SQL Server Report Project SharePoint 2007
– Coded UI test –
– Visual C++
– Modeling
– Visual Studio Lab
– SharePoint 2010 • No:
Management
– Unit tests – BizTalk 2010 R2
– Visual Studio 2010 web – Cloud tools
• Other:
– VS 2010 SSDT – F#
– SQL Server CE 3.5 (After
– WCF – LightSwitch
upgrade to SQL Server CE
– WPF 4.0) – Rich Internet
– MPI/Cluster Debugging – Office 2007 VSTO (Upgrade Applications
– SSRS to Office 2010 /.NET 4) – Visual Studio SDK/VSIX
– MVC framework (For – SQL Server Express
• Upgrade required compatible MVC versions) LocalDB
– SharePoint 2007 – MPI/Cluster Debugging (For
compatible versions)
– MVC 2
– Office 2010 VSTO (.NET 4)
– Rich Internet Applications

Based on October 2012 MSDN Documentation

Visual Studio and TFS 2012

Connectivity to TFS 2012:
• Visual Studio 2012 (Native support)

• Visual Studio 2010
– Requires SP1 and TFS 2012 Compatibility GDR

• Visual Studio 2008
– Requires SP1 and TFS 2012 Compatibility GDR

• Visual Studio 2005 and earlier
– No support expected
– Consider the MSSCCI provider

Microsoft Test Manager

• Compatible across MTM and TFS versions:
– Test Plans
– Test Case work items
– Test Runs
– Work item queries

• Incompatible:
– MTM 2012 and TFS 2010
• Lab Management
• Test Results (additional tab)
• Exploratory Testing
• Windows Store app testing
– MTM 2010 and TFS 2012
• Lab Management (environments and templates)

Cross Platform

• Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE) 2012:
– Connect to TFS 2012
– Connect to TFS 2010*

• TEE 2012 supports 3.4 - 3.8
• TEE 2010 SP1 supports 3.2 - 3.6
• TEE 2010 supports Eclipse 3.0 - 3.5

* Reduced functionality when connecting to earlier versions of TFS.

Beyond Visual Studio

• Third party tools and integration…
– Some VS/TFS 2010 tools will work as is.
– Some VS/TFS 2010 must be upgraded.
– Some VS/TFS 2010 will not work.

• New versions of some common tools are available:
– Team Foundation Power Tools
– MSSCCI Provider

• Not using Visual Studio or Eclipse?
– Team Explorer on Windows or TEE cross-platform
– Some compatibility via bridges: TFS/SVN or TFS/GIT
– Web access

TFS 2012 Prerequisites
Operating System: SharePoint Requirements:
• 64-Bit server • SharePoint Foundation 2010
– Windows Server 2008 SP2 • SharePoint Server 2010 (Enterprise
– Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 or Standard)
– Windows Server 2012 • MOSS 2007 (Enterprise or
• 32-bit or 64-bit client Standard)
– Windows 7 SP1 • Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
– Windows 8
Project Server Requirements:
Database Requirements: • Project Server 2010 SP1
• SQL Server 2008 R2 • Project Server 2007 SP2 with SQL
• SQL Server 2012 Server 2005 or 2008
• Express (basic installation)
• Standard or Enterprise Edition TFS Requirements (Upgrade):
for Reporting • TFS 2008 SP1
• TFS 2010 RTM or SP1

General Upgrade Process

• In-Place Upgrade:
• Verify the upgrade before the upgrade.
• Take care of prerequisites!
• Make sure you have backups!
• Uninstall TFS 2010
• Install TFS 2012
• Configure TFS 2012 as an “Upgrade”
• Post-Installation cleanup
• Verify and release the upgrade into production!

Alternatively, you can migrate to a new server!

Enabling Web Features

• Browse to Web Access
• Access your project
• View Backlog
• Configure Upgrades
• Move forward with TFS 2012!

Migration from where?
• ALM: • Work Tracking:
– TFS (older versions) – HP ALM (Quality Center)
– Rational Team Concert – IBM ClearQuest
– Other… – Other…

• Automated Build:
• Version Control: – CC.NET
– Visual Source Safe – FinalBuild
– IBM ClearCase – Bamboo
– CVS – Hudson
– MKS – NAnt
– Subversion – Ant
– Perforce – Other…
– StarTeam
– Vault • Testing:
– Other… – HP ALM (Quality Center)
– Other…

Migration Options for ALM

• TFS Hardware Migration
– Upgrade to 2008 SP1 or later
– Restore backups of TFS databases on new servers
– Perform aforementioned upgrade steps
– Retire original server

• Non-TFS ALM Migration
– Migrate per individual subsystems

Version Control Migration

• “Tips” Migration • TFS Integration Platform
– Low fidelity – Subversion
– Works with everything – ClearCase
– Opportunity to clean up – Custom

• VSS Converter
• Timely Migration™
– High fidelity
• Bridges
– Subversion
– SVN Bridge
– StarTeam
– GIT TFS
– CVS
– TFS
• Roll-your-own

Work Tracking and Test Case Migration
• Manual
– Retype
– Excel

• Scrat
– Quality Center to TFS
– Support Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases and Attachments

• Test Case Migrator Plus
– Supports link type: Parent/Child, Related, Tests/Tested By
– Supports Requirements, Test Cases, and Bugs
– Frequently used with Excel as an intermediary

• HP Quality Center Synchronizer
– Bugs only – not currently support TFS 2012

• Scripting / Roll-your-own

Test Runs, Automated Builds, Reports, …

• Rebuild from scratch
:-(

• Roll-your own

What next?

• Plan
– Understand your environment
– Understand timing and risks
– Define your destination

• Leverage Experience
– Build it internally
• Read / Study
• Practice
• Verify
– Hire/buy experience

• Execute!

Summary

• Overview & Your Current
State

• Client-side Considerations &
Connectivity

• Project Compatibility

• Server-side Prerequisites

• Upgrade Process

• Your Next Steps

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