ALM and Visual Studio 2015 Virtual Machines and Hands on Labs

Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) is core to the success of creating and delivering applications. The Visual Studio team has released a collection of excellent Virtual Machines that you can download and start getting your hands dirty. This Collection of virtual machines includes

These Labs and Virtual Machines are a great tool for you to sharpen your skills on DevOps, Visual Studio 2015 and ALM without messing up your current development environment. The hands on labs include:

  • Introduction to Team Foundation Build 2015 (vNext), Test Run Analysis and Machines
  • Introduction to IntelliTest with Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
  • Monitoring Applications with Application Insights
  • Managing Technical Debt with Team Foundation Server 2015 and SonarQube
  • Introduction to SmartOffice4TFS
  • Agile Planning and Portfolio Management with Team Foundation Server 2015
  • Getting Started with Git using Team Foundation Server 2015
  • Embracing Continuous Delivery with Release Management for Visual Studio 2015
  • Collaboration Experiences for Development Teams using Team Foundation Server 2015
  • Authoring and Running Manual Tests using Microsoft Test Manager 2015
  • Branching and Merging Visualization with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015
  • Building the Right Software – Generating Storyboards and Collecting Stakeholder Feedback with Visual Studio 2015
  • Code Discovery using the Architecture Tools in Visual Studio Ultimate 2015
  • Debugging with IntelliTrace using Visual Studio Ultimate 2015
  • Diagnosing Issues in Production with IntelliTrace and Visual Studio 2015
  • Exploratory Testing using Microsoft Test Manager 2015
  • Introduction to Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
  • Introduction to Platform Testing with Microsoft Test Manager 2015
  • Introduction to PreEmptive Analytics
  • Introduction to Test Case Management with Microsoft Test Manager 2015
  • Introduction to Test Planning with Microsoft Test Manager 2015
  • Introduction to Web Performance and Load Testing with Visual Studio Enterprise 2015
  • Making Developers More Productive with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015
  • Testing and Debugging SharePoint Applications with Visual Studio 2015
  • Unit Testing, Code Coverage and Code Clone Analysis with Visual Studio 2015
  • Using Code Analysis with Visual Studio 2015 to Improve Code Quality

Don't wait jump right in and start upgrading your skills on Visual Studio, and ALM.