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What are some ALM alternatives to TFS?

I'm also familiar with the 'Subversion + Cruise Control + Fogbugz + nCover + ...' setup used in dev houses. But what other options are there? I'm pretty naive outside of these 2 combinations. I'm from the .net world and perhaps LISP of Ruby developers do it completely differently? ...

Atlassian Crowd experiences?

we (a team of about 150) are considering moving our ALM solution from Bugzilla/CVS to Jira/svn/Confluence/Bamboo/Fisheye. SO has a lot of good info on those, but I would be interested to learn about another tool from Atlassian - a Single Sign On (SSO) Crowd, I am considering adding it to the mix for an LDAP integration with our Novell id...

Getting Started With Application Lifecycle Management

I'm a lead developer in a small development shop exclusively using Microsoft based solutions. We're currently implemently small to medium sized solutions using .NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2008 as a base. We also currently use Team Server simply for source control. We have a larger project on the horizon and would like to start putting more ...

TFS and RTC - can both be used for both Java and .NET development

Both Microsoft's Team system and IBM's Rational Team Concert have similar features and functions. Both claim to be able to support either Java or .NET developers with their favorite IDE. Do you have any experience that shows one is better than the other for a one solution that works for all? Is there any key differences (features) be...

What are the best practices/tools for a team of 7 developers working in Visual Studio Proffessional ?

What are you guys using, what has worked for you? I'm talking about, version control, testing, automated build, code coverage, basically all things ALM. The cheaper the tools, the better. We are not looking for VSTS. For profit, commercial application and custom software development in C#. Programming is primary skill. ...

Looking for an Application Lifecycle Management tool

I'm looking for an Application Lifecycle Management tool for a team with about 15 employees. It should provide the following features: General Multi-user network system dashboard for each user should be suitable for Scrum multiple projects Issue tracker separation of bugs, enhancements and new features Issues should have: category...

SAP Solution Manager: Which Application Life-Cycle Management Processes are getting covered?

As it is included in the licence (according to SAP) we would prefer using SolMan over other tools, for the entire life-cycle of software development. Or is it highly recommendet to use specific tools for the particular processes like Test Management? Any opinions?? Regards M. ...

Using Mercurial with TFS-like work item tracking

Does Mercurial offer any type of extensions that offer functionality similar to TFS's work items that when you check in changes that you can associate them to features/defects? If there isn't much (or any) support for this, how do you handle ALM using Mercurial? ...

TFS Error: Unable to determine the workspace for this solution

Hello. I get this error when trying to "Go Online" with a project on a Visual Studio 2010 ALM project. The project was previously connected to a team project on Team Foundation Server (2010), but I had to reinstall both the SQL Server and the TFS installation and I guess all that information was deleted. Now, I'm trying to get the pr...

Which places I could question about TFS, Visual Studio and ALM?

Hi all, We are going to applying VSTS 2010 in our company. This includes Visual Studio, TFS, TFS Build and ALM. It's predictable that we would encounter a wave of new questions about their usage. But the problem is I don't know which places we could do questioning. StackOverflow is programming base question site and ServerFault is not...

Open source ALM software stack

I was looking at open source ALM tools and discovered an interesting project called jabox. Jabox is a new project designed to support Maven builds and new projects are setup with pre-configured POMs supporting the following suite of tools: What makes Jabox unique is that it contains embedded editions of the following tools: Subve...