VSTS brings your codebase to life!
May 09, 2017
VSTS brings your codebase to life!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System
It is being used across the development team department and is responsible for integrating, managing and deploying code bases to our companies' systems. The fact that our codebase is available outside our company boundaries via VSTS' servers, running independently of physical problems that could afflict our local servers bring us another level of comfort since most of the issues are actually solved from home.
- Has a very low cost for micro (free up to 5 users) teams.
- Integrates flawlessly with TFS, bringing all its known features together with a minimum level of expertise.
- Is available online, everywhere.
- The Agile support in the VSTS dashboards is cumbersome, not-so-easy to deploy, and not easy to maintain
- Older versions of Visual Studio may suffer from older bugs, such as the 255 character path-limitation.
- The fact that it is served online means that, in the (very rare) occasions when it goes offline, it means your entire team must plug the source control off, and wait for its return to reunite the changes made.
- Quicker, more effective and more productive developments
- Effective bug track-keeping with a large, searchable codebase
- Git and VSS
Being its predecessor, VSS has a very limited team-sharing view, providing little to no multiple-user, multiple-project support. Considering the fact that Microsoft has purged its support in favor of TFS and VSTS, it's only reasonable to believe they have something extra. Git is a good source control repository, but the fact that Visual Studio and TFS has been working together since 2010 (Git support began with the 2015 version), it's fair to believe that a more direct control will be available with the latter.