What’s new in work item tracking in Microsoft Visual Studio Team System code name “Rosario”

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What’s new in work item tracking in Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario”

Traceability is a big push with Rosario. To that end, we have improved the linking functionality is work item tracking, in Rosario.

Before Rosario, there was only one type of link between work items: “Related”. With Rosario, you can define as many different link types as you want. Each link type can be named, and can be defined to have certain rules that are enforced for you by TFS.

OK, what does this really mean?

Well, it opens the door to implement a real traceability solution in TFS. You can now create trace relationships between work items such as

· Parent / Child

· Predecessor / Successor – (Any ideas on how this might be useful with MS Project integration J)

· Fulfills / Fullfilled By – For relating Requirements to Features. Requirements are fulfilled by Features. Features fulfill requirements.

· Depends On / Required By – For relating Features to each on to define feature dependencies. Feature A depends on Feature B. Feature B is required by Feature A.

Since you can define new link types, you can customize your system to implement the process that you use.

What link types do you think you would create?