Target Process Visual Studio 2008 Add-In Guide

TargetProcess — Visual Studio 2008 Add-In User Guide

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TARGETPROCESS

VISUAL STUDIO 2008

ADD-IN USER GUIDE

v.2.16 Visual Studio 2008 Add-In User Guide

This document describes TargetProcess Visual Studio 2008 Add-In

usage and configuration.


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VISUAL STUDIO 2008 INTEGRATION OVERVIEW .............................................................................................. 2

INSTALL AND CONFIGURE TARGETPROCESS VISUAL STUDIO ADD-IN .............................................................. 2

WORKING WITH TODO LIST ..................................................................................................................................... 3 WORKING WITH TIME TRACKING ............................................................................................................................... 4 SETTINGS .............................................................................................................................................................. 5

OTHER ............................................................................................................................................................. 6

Visual Studio 2008 Integration Overview TargetProcess Visual Studio 2008 Add-In Integration provides the following functionality:

• Shows ToDo list with all user stories, bugs and tasks.

• Close assigned tasks and bugs.

• Automatic stop watch functionality for time tracking.

• Daily time fragmentation report.

Install and Configure TargetProcess Visual Studio Add-In Download TargetProcess Visual Studio Add-In from

http://www.targetprocess.com/support.asp, close Visual Studio and run the installer.

Installation process is straightforward and does not have any specific steps.

Run Visual Studio and find TargetProcess menu item on the top. Click menu and select Login

option. Popup window with TargetProcess credentials information will appear. It is required

to specify URL to TargetProcess server, your login and password to TargetProcess

application.

After that you may see your ToDo list. Click TargetProcess menu and select View To Do List

option.


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Working with ToDo List

ToDo list contains all your assignments. You may see all bugs, tasks and user stories from all

projects.

The following actions available:

• View assignment details – double click on row to open web browser with

assignment view page.

• Sort ToDo list – click on column header to sort by it.


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• Change assignment state – right click to row and select new state. Change will be

propagated to TargetProcess immediately.

• Refresh ToDo list – click Refresh List button to update the list with new assignment

made in TargetProcess.

Working with Time Tracking

Stop watch functionality powers painless time tracking in Visual Studio Add-In. You may

select required task and push start button. Time tracking for the task will be started.

If you click Stop button, you will be prompted to enter time description.

In the end of the day you may post all tracked time to TargetProcess. To do that you should

stop timer and push Submit Time button. Note that time does not automatically posted to

server, it is require to do that manually using Submit Time button.

Also you may see all spent time in a nice report that shows time fragmentation. Click on

Total time (for example, on the picture above you should click on 00:59:34) to see the

report.


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The time log shows all time record in a session that was not submitted to the server yet.

Each bar is a separate time record. Length of the bar is time duration.

You may hover bars to see complete time description.

The report clearly shows how fragmented your time is. Highly fragmented time is a sign of

inefficiency/many interruptions/multitasking. You may analyze it and make some

interesting conclusions.

Settings

Add-In has several settings. Click TargetProcess menu and select Options.

The options are straightforward and do not require any additional explanations.


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Other Please, email to [email protected] if any problems with TestTrackPro

integration.

Visit support forum at http://support.targetprocess.com or TargetProcess Help Desk at

http://helpdesk.targetprocess.com

If you have any questions about TargetProcess, just contact us:

Email: [email protected]

Web: http://www.targetprocess.com

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