Next Visual Studio release to tackle testing

eWeek | at | by Mike

While developers are busy this week digesting the new features and upgrades in Visual Studio 2005, Microsoft already is looking ahead to the next version of the product.

Rick LaPlante, general manager of Visual Studio 2005 Team System at Microsoft, said that because Visual Studio 2005 is shipping this week, the company has begun working on a prototype of the next version of Visual Studio, code-named Orcas.

And while there is much planning and work to be done before ramping up development for Orcas, one area Microsoft is clearly looking to cover in the next version of its Visual Studio Team System life-cycle development suite is testing, said LaPlante.