Alpha Test: The first test of newly developed, when the first round of bugs has been fixed the product goes with actual users for testing.

Scrum is an iterative, incremental process for developing any product or managing any work, commonly used with agile software development. It produces a potentially shippable set of functionality at the end of every iteration.

Benefit:
• Flexibility and Speed.
• Reduces the risk.
• High quality and low cost.

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Mahesh R 

You can configure Team Foundation Server to use an existing SMTP server to send e-mail alerts. Users can configure alerts for various projects, work item, and build event notifications. Although you can specify the SMTP server during Team Foundation Server installation, you might want to change the STMP server later. Similarly, if you to change the application pool service account by using the TFSAdminUtil Change Account command, you must manually change the sender account e-mail address to the new service account's e-mail address.

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A test strategy is a planning document that provides the overall direction for the software testing needs of a project. Developing a test strategy is about setting direction and resolving high-level testing questions. The value of the test strategy isn’t in the wording, the writing, or the format of the strategy; the value is in planning an approach for testing.

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Equivalence partitioning:

Equivalence Partitioning determines the number of test cases for a given scenario.
Equivalence partitioning is a black box testing technique with the following goal:
1.To reduce the number of test cases to a necessary minimum.
2.To select the right test cases to cover all possible scenarios.

A framework that promotes development iterations throughout the life-cycle of a project. It minimizes risk by developing software in short amounts of time. A development accomplished in one unit of time (generally up to four weeks) is called iteration. Each iteration is a project with analysis, design, coding, testing and also documentation all the required functionality may not be covered in one iteration for releasing the project. But it will be covered in multiple iterations. The idea is to have a defect free release available at the end of each iteration.

This blog clarifies that you can access Team Foundation Server project data through a web browser (Team System Web Access) to perform following features create, view, query and track work items, manage the build process and document libraries and no need to install visual studio client on each one machine.

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Mahesh R