The Evolution of the Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

changed the industry's expectation of what a "complete" development environment should offer. specific features of the Ultimate edition, or are you looking for a comparison with modern versions of Visual Studio? Acceptance Test-Driven Development - JYX 6 Dec 2011 —

: Ensure you have at least 1.6 GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, and up to 10 GB of available hard disk space. It is officially supported on Windows 7, Vista, and Server 2008.

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With Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft dramatically simplified its product line from nine different SKUs in the Visual Studio 2008 era down to four main editions: Professional, Premium, Ultimate, and Test Professional. Here is how Ultimate compared to its siblings:

The Ultimate edition bridged the gap between developers and quality assurance (QA) teams by embedding advanced testing capabilities directly into the ALM workflow.

It natively supported Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams, including activity, component, class, sequence, and use-case diagrams.