StarTeam to TFS Migration

Description:

The client was using Borland's StarTeam product for version control and issue tracking. As a pure Microsoft development shop, the company felt that Microsoft Team Foundation Server's .NET architecture, and it's associated flexibility, was a better fit to carry them into the future.

Having made the decision to migrate to TFS, the company sought assistance in migrating their existing version control and issue tracking data to TFS.

Solution:

We searched for various migration tools that could be used to assistance the client, but no suitable tools were found. We also investigated the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit, available on CodePlex, but determined that it was also unsuitable for the project.

We wrote a custom program using the both the TFS SDK and the StarTeam SDK. Data was read from the StarTeam database and then written to the new TFS database.