DevPartner Studio Version 8.1
Integration with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server-DevPartner Studio extends the capability and value of Visual Studio Team System with the most advanced diagnostics, distributed analysis capabilities and work item integration with Team Foundation Server. Now you can submit defect work items from DevPartner Studio directly to Team Foundation Server. Work item integration allows DevPartner Studio users to collaborate more effectively. Testers and developers can communicate detailed diagnostic data with one another in a Team System environment. Better collaboration and timely data result in faster resolution of defects to keep application development projects on schedule.
New System Snapshot SDK with royalty-free redistribution-Now you can enable your applications to take customized system-level snapshots on demand. Snapshots from your QA systems, production systems or customer systems can be automatically analyzed on your DevPartner System Comparison client to quickly identify configuration issues that cause your application to fail or become unstable.
New Code Review rules. Enhanced support for .NET coding standards and best practices with 21 new Code Review rules.
Improved support for Code Review customized rules. Learn how to create your own rules more easily with functional, customizable rule examples and supporting documentation.
Code Review exclusion capability. Now you can streamline and accelerate your Code Review sessions by excluding code that you do not want to analyze.
Improved support for automated Code Review sessions. New return codes signal your batch process when Code Review errors have been found. Now your nightly build process can do intelligent branching based on Code Review results.
DevPartner Studio Version 8.0
System Comparison Utility
DevPartner Studio supplies a Comparison Utility that takes snapshots of machine configurations, registry settings, system services, drivers, installed products, and so on. Two snapshots can be compared and the differences reported. These snapshots can be from the same system or from different systems. This feature can be can be invaluable when identifying differences in system configurations that may be causing an application to behave differently than expected.
Performance expert
Analyzes an application at run-time and locates problem methods in the code. It then allows developers to view details about individual lines in the method. This feature allows data collection on Disk I/O, Network I/O and synchronization wait time.
Fault Simulator SE
Developers can now quickly and safely simulate a useful set of location based .NET Framework faults to test their error handling code. Once an error has been simulated, developers can step through the error handling lines of code to diagnose and correct the bugs.
DevPartner Studio Version 7.2
Static source code analysis support for .NET naming conventions
Developers can ensure that their method and variable names use the naming conventions as put forth in the Microsoft .NET Framework General Reference Naming Guidelines document. DevPartner code review will automatically check for appropriate names and flag anything that doesn't fit within those naming conventions.
Dead code detection in static source code analysis
Many applications end up with code that is ultimately never called. This code could be a source of errors and performance degradation, however, and makes the entire application more difficult to maintain.
DevPartner Studio Server license (Available separately)
DevPartner Studio continues to support the ability to collect, correlate and view performance, coverage and memory analysis data from remote machines. Developers can now follow transactions of distributed applications across multiple tiers through the DevPartner Studio Server license. The DevPartner Studio Server license replaced both the Performance and Coverage Remote Agent and the Distributed Analyzer remote agent.
Support for use with Microsoft Terminal Services
Developers can log in remotely using Terminal Services and use DevPartner Studio on the remote computer (requires concurrent user licenses). This grants developers the freedom to use a single copy of DevPartner Studio on one computer and to access that computer from home or while traveling. One can also use DevPartner Studio on a central lab computer from the user desktop, without having to walk to the computer lab and physically log in.
Additional functionality in DevPartner Studio:
- Full integration with Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003
- Support for Visual Studio 6 with integrated error detection using BoundsChecker technology
- Distributed multi-tier analysis and correlation
- Enhanced performance analysis for web services
- .NET memory, performance and coverage analysis
- Ability to display code call graphs
- Ability to compare two performance profiling runs for differences
- Supports concurrent license borrowing
DevPartner Studio Enterprise Edition includes the following products:
DevPartner Studio Professional Edition
DevPartner Studio Professional Edition is an award-winning suite of software development and testing tools that enable Windows application teams to build reliable, high-performance applications, components and web services for Microsoft .NET and native Windows platforms. DevPartner Studio automatically detects and diagnoses software defects and performance problems early in the development process as cost-effectively as possible, providing built-in expert coding advice, coding standards and best practices to improve development skills and ensure software reliability and performance. DevPartner Studio enhances Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team System with advanced capabilities that allow development organizations to improve software quality, adopt coding standards and best practices, and maximize developer productivity.
TrackRecord
DevPartner Studio Enterprise Edition uses TrackRecord to track project milestones, features, tasks, defects, testing assets and other information related to development projects.
TrackRecord is an advanced change request management, and defect and project tracking tool that helps organizations establish a systematic method for coordinating and accelerating software development, debugging, testing and implementation across the enterprise. TrackRecord is a highly customizable product that fits naturally into any development and testing process.
By automating time-consuming tasks, such as documenting and reporting defects, communicating status and priorities, and locating bottlenecks, TrackRecord gives developers, testers, QA managers and project managers additional time to focus on developing code and resolving problems.
The unmatched flexibility of TrackRecord makes it helpful throughout the software lifecycle from design and development through testing and deployment. TrackRecord can capture and share any information relating to a project including team member's schedules and defects and feature requests. TrackRecord's query and reporting features access, format and communicate the information your team needs to stay on track.
Reconcile
Deliver projects on time, on budget and to specification, using Compuware's requirements management tool. Compuware Reconcile helps you define and track your project's goals throughout the entire project lifecycle, preventing those common errors that can cause project failure. Using Reconcile promotes consistent communication, sensible sharing of information and results validation to help you better manage, develop and test your crucial projects. Second chances are rare in today's business world, Reconcile will ensure your application delivers the first time.
Accelerating software development, while maintaining quality development and testing, requires the participation of your entire team. Reconcile provides the way to ensure a quality development and test process, as well as effectively predict the end result.
Used with DevPartner Studio Enterprise Edition, Reconcile can deliver requirements and requirement changes to developers as they are progressing on the project.