<div align="left" dir="ltr">What is Team Foundation Server?</div>
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</div><div align="left" dir="ltr">Team Foundation Server (commonly abbreviated to TFS) is a collaboration platform. You Collaborate different phases of Microsoft’s application life cycle such as source control, team build , project tracking ,testing ,data collection and reporting, team project portal and shared service.It is available either as stand-alone software or as the server side back end platform for Visual Studio Team System (VSTS).</div>
<div align="left" dir="ltr">Why is Team Foundation required?</div>
Team Foundation Server enables collaborative environment within the team members to be more productive. Team Foundation Server provides the core collaboration functionality as below:
Project management
Work item tracking (WIT)
Version control
Test case management
Build automation
Reporting
Virtual lab management


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Notes :Image taken from “Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server”