Enabling Test Management on Upgraded Team Projects (Beta 2)
In Visual Studio Team System 2010 we are releasing a lot of new and exciting technology that should help improve your software development lifecycle. Unfortunately simply upgrading your server does not automatically give your existing project these new capabilities. Due to the differences in the process templates from VSTS 2008 to VSTS 2010 and the potential for customization by the end user all upgraded team project will require some manual intervention in order to work properly with all of the new functionality in the VSTS 2010 clients.
For a full overview of how to enable new features please see Enabling New Features of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 2 in Upgraded Projects.
The post will cover upgrading your projects to make use of the new Test Management features in VSTS 2010. For the purposes of this post I will work with the agile template but the steps for CMMI are almost identical.
The attached document covers the steps necessary to upgrade a single project; once you have accomplished this you can use the information to script the upgrade of multiple projects and to add the new features to your organizations custom process template.
After you have upgraded the server and installed the new VSTS 2010 client you will want to make sure you have the appropriate permissions to make changes to the process template for a particular project. Please check with your administrator for details.
This document is not intended to explain the various concepts within TFS or with the new Test Management features. It expects that you are familiar with TFS and administering team projects and a fairly deep level. If you feel you need to learn more please check the documentation on MSDN.
