Kovair VSTS Integration Adapter and Plug-in

'Kovair VSTS 2013 Adapter' along with the 'Kovair VSTS 2013 Plug-in' benefits the development community in several ways.  It helps in tracking all the artifacts from each of the phases of the development lifecycle. For instance,  various models designed by the architects; code written by the developers; code reviews and static analysis done by the reviewers;  unit testing done by the developers, can all be synchronized with other ALM tools that are connected to theOmnibus integration platform.

Kovair Omnibus Visual Studio plug-in allows Visual Studio users to access artifacts of other tools directly from within their Visual Studio environment.

ALM tools, such as RequisitePro for Requirements Management, HP Quality Center for Test Management, Atlassian Jira for Defect Management or any in-house tools that are integrated through Kovair Omnibus Integration Platform, are all accessible for direct user operation from Visual Studio through this plug-in.

Kovair has built an Open Omnibus plug-in architecture that communicates with individual tools connected to Omnibus through adapters. Kovair Omnibus Visual Studio plug-in is based on this architecture, and therefore can easily be used to add, view, edit and delete artifacts being managed in any of the best-of-breed tools that are connected to Omnibus.

Kovair Omnibus Visual Studio Adapter works in conjunction with the plug-in and allows users to convert any Visual Studio artifacts such as Design Diagram, Design Element, File, Class, Method and Test Case into an artifact that can be traced with respect to other external tool artifacts in the integrated ALM scenario.

VSTS 2013 Integration Benefits:

• Enables developers to view/edit their work items in their IDE that may include work items from other repositories such as TFS, Sharepoint, JIRA, and Bugzilla.
• Allows direct creation of Defects from the IDE for Static Coding analysis failures.
• Enables viewing of complete traceability information of all the ALM artifacts from the IDE.
• Rich plug-in explorer allows the user to navigate between various projects in the ecosystem.
• Shares Build information with other ALM tools though the integration bus.
• Synchronizes tasks and work-items across tools

For any questions regarding Visual Studio integration with other ALM and IT tools, email us or schedule a demo. We would be happy to provide you with the right solutions.