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To create quality of service requirements

Open the quality of service requirements spreadsheet and begin creating quality of service requirements.

Steps

1

On the Visual Studio Team menu, click Team Explorer.

2

In Team Explorer, expand your team project folder, and then the Documents folder.

3

In the Requirements folder, double-click the QoS Requirements.xsl spreadsheet. The spreadsheet opens in Microsoft Excel.

4

Create a requirement in the blank row with the asterisk "*" by filling in the columns as follows.

5

Leave the Work Item ID blank. This is automatically generated.

6

Set the Work Item Type to Quality of Service Requirement.

7

Set the Quality of Service Type to the appropriate type of Load, Other, Performance, Platform, Security, or Stress.

8

Set the Rank to an appropriate value (1, 2, or 3).

9

Enter a Title.

10

Enter a description of the quality of service requirement in the Summary cell.

11

Leave the Assigned To cell blank, unless the requirement is ready to be assigned.

12

Set the State to Active.

13

Repeat step 4 for as many requirements as you need to create.

14

On the Work Items menu, click Publish Changes. This will commit the new quality of service requirements to the work item database.

15

On the File menu, choose Save.

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