Microsoft Updates Agile Tools

Microsoft has released for download the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) for Agile Software Development Process Guidance, guidelines for scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process that use many of the ideas built into Team System.

The new versions of MSF for Agile Software Development and MSF for CMMI Process Improvement create the first commercial agile and CMMI-based software development processes with support for database unit tests and refactoring. The release of these processes coincided with the release of Microsoft's tooling support for these practices, Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals. These new versions also contain several bug fixes and clarifications.

The download contains an update to the agile process guidance that ships with Visual Studio 2005 Team System. Version 4.1 provides new guidance for the Database Professionals to use Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals.

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