MTC Silicon Valley

Flextronics Improves Development Productivity, Quality, and Reporting with New Tools

The mixed tool sets used by developers at Flextronics hindered productivity, quality assurance, and reporting. The company addressed those issues by moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 as an integrated solution for the application lifecycle—from managing and testing code to reporting on project status. Flextronics is benefiting from increased productivity and collaboration, better visibility into project status, and increased software quality.

“We’re seeing a 20 to 30 percent productivity gain with respect to quality assurance–related processes, such as testing and bug fixing.”
- Jorge Rodriguez Brizuela, Development Supervisor, IT Finance, Flextronics

Evaluation of Visual Studio 2010 began in July 2009, when Flextronics personnel spent time at a Microsoft Technology Center. Also present was Steven Borg from Northwest Cadence, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner that assisted Flextronics with its initial adoption of Team Foundation Server through both training and consulting. “We left the Microsoft Technology Center really excited about Visual Studio 2010,” says Yang. “What really caught our attention were the testing capabilities—essentially, everything we needed to bridge the gap between development and QA.”

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