Mercury's integration strategy with Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System is part of its commitment to support the entire application quality ecosystem from product design and development, to application delivery and management. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System is an extensible lifecycle tools platform that helps software teams collaborate to reduce the complexity of delivering modern service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications on the Microsoft .NET Framework.
The Mercury strategy details how the integration will be designed to help customers using Mercury's market leading application testing products and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 to:
"Share testing assets such as unit tests, functional and load tests in both development and quality assurance through integrations with Mercury Quality Center and Mercury Performance Center"; " Collaborate on the diagnosis and resolution of application defects, performance bottlenecks and scalability problems across the entire application lifecycle using Mercury Diagnostics"; and " Provide full visibility of the application testing process through the Mercury Application Delivery Dashboard".
Today, customers using Mercury Quality Center and Mercury Performance Center can test the quality and performance of Microsoft .NET Framework-based applications and Web services. Customers use Mercury LoadRunner, which is part of the Mercury Performance Center, to emulate real-world load conditions in .NET Framework-based applications and Web services to ensure they will meet the demands of the business prior to deployment. Customers also use .NET Framework add-ins for Mercury QuickTest Professional, part of the Mercury Quality Center, to test frequently changing functional requirements in applications and Web services before going live. In addition, Microsoft enterprise customers use Mercury Diagnostics to manage application availability and performance 24x7 by detecting problems before they affect customers, isolating problems to system or application tiers, and pinpointing root causes to specific components across the application lifecycle.
Details on Mercury's application delivery products and services can be found at the website below.
http://www.mercury.com/us/business-technology-optimization/application-delivery