What's new in Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management
Virtual lab management ensures that machines are available to run tests with required configurations using virtual environments. While there are many benefits—including reduced hardware costs, consistent and reliable test labs, and more efficient deployments—implementing a virtual lab management solution has been historically complex, requiring the full efforts of development, QA, and operations. Visual Studio 2010 brings a new level of simplicity and time-savings to this process by enabling self-servicing of virtual lab management.
With Lab Management, you can easily and rapidly provision environments at a known clean state for a predicable build-deploy-test workflow, as well as re-use environments in a repeatable and consistent manner. You can even use virtual machine templates to create exact copies of a configuration without running into the naming conflicts that often occur in virtualized environments. Lab Management also enables testers to capture snapshots of all the virtual machines in an environment during test execution and attach it to the bugs they file. From the bug form inside the Visual Studio IDE, developers connect to the environment directly. This lets developers see exactly what the tester saw and more easily identify the root cause of the problem.