A Brief Introduction to VSTS

Microsoft’s VSTS or “Visual Studio Team System” is an extensible and integrated set of tools, processes and guidance for Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) and software development. This set of tools can be used for software development, version control, team collaboration, work item tracking, project metrics, reporting, project related business intelligence, build management, and process guidance.

VSTS helps an organization to implement an effective development methodology, integrating development experience with project management. For a multi-disciplined IT team, it provides a complete set of integrated tools for Project Managers, Architects, Designers, Application Developers, Database Developers, and Testers. It enables the team members to improve communications, and to continuously collaborate and utilize a set of tools and guidance at every step of the application life cycle.