What Is VSTS?
VSTS stands for Visual Studio Team System.
VSTS is a Microsoft product and design and developed
by Microsoft.
Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) is the cloud
offering that provides a reliable, scalable, and globally available hosted services
that support Git, continuous integration, and Agile tools for planning and
tracking works.
It is a version control and it has a general
workflow that most of developers use when writing code and sharing it with the
team.
We can say that VSTS is a new version of TFS. As
you know TFS is based on client-server model while VSTS is based on SaaS.
What does VSTS mean?
The VSTS is an extension of Visual Studio
architecture that provides us to encompass development teams, with appropriate
roles and tools for software architects, developers, and testers.
What are the Key concepts for working with VSTS and TFS?
There are some key concepts that support software
development.
1. Source
control to manage versioning of software files.
2. Tracking
tools to support planning and tracking work, code defects, issues and many more
things.
3. DevOps
tools to support building, testing, and continuous release of software apps.
What are the benefits of VSTS?
There are list of benefits are available
1. Code
repository
2. Automatic
Build and Release
3. Simplified
server management
4. Immediate
access to the latest and greatest features
5. Improved
connectivity with remote sites
6. A
transition from capital expenditures to operational expenditures
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