What's new in DevPartner Studio Professional Edition

Version 8.2

Support for Windows Vista—DevPartner Studio supports application development and testing on Windows Vista Business Edition, Enterprise Edition and Ultimate Edition.

Support for .NET Framework 3.0 and more—DevPartner Studio supports .NET Framework 3.0 development in Visual Studio 2005, Internet Information Service 7.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0.

XML Reporting—DevPartner Studio now generates XML output for reporting and external analysis of session data from Code Review, Automated Error Detection, Performance Analysis, Performance Expert and Code Coverage.

Optimal Delivery Manager Data Provider—DevPartner Studio 8.2 is enabled for reporting code quality metrics to Compuware Optimal solutions for Application Delivery Management.

System Comparison Standalone Installation—The popular DevPartner Studio System Comparison feature is separately installable on systems that do not have DevPartner Studio. Now QA and Help Desk staff can diagnose system configuration problems without the direct involvement of developers. DevPartner Studio concurrent licensing required.

Idle License Timeout—DevPartner Studio concurrent licenses are automatically checked in after an idle timeout period.

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.