Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

  1. 340 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

About this book

Over 80 hands-on DevOps and ALM-focused recipes for Scrum Teams to enable the Continuous Delivery of high-quality Software... Faster!

About This Book

  • Release high quality, reliable software quickly through building, testing, and deployment automation
  • Improve the predictability, reliability, and availability of TFS in your organization by scheduling administration and maintenance activities
  • Extend, customize, and integrate tools with TFS, enabling your teams to manage their application lifecycles effectively

Who This Book Is For

This book is aimed at software professionals including Developers, Testers, Architects, Configuration Analysts, and Release Managers who want to understand the capabilities of TFS to deliver better quality software faster.

A working setup of TFS 2015 and some familiarity with the concepts of software life cycle management is assumed.

What You Will Learn

  • Creating a Team Project with Dashboards, Assigning License, Adding users, and Auditing Access
  • Setting up a Git repository in an existing TFVC-based Team Project
  • Setting up branch policies and conducting Pull requests with code reviews
  • Mapping, assigning and tracking work items shared by multiple teams
  • Setting up and customizing Backlogs, Kanban board, Sprint Taskboard, and dashboards
  • Creating a Continuous Integration, Continuous Build, and Release Pipeline
  • Integrating SonarQube with TFBuild to manage Technical Debt
  • Triggering Selenium Web Tests on a Selenium Test Grid using TFBuild
  • Using Visual Studio Team Services Cloud load testing capability with new Build framework
  • Extending and customizing the capabilities of Team Foundation Server using API and Process Editor

In Detail

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes.

The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments.

By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.

Style and approach

This book is a recipe-based guide that uses a problem-solution format to call out inefficiencies in the software development lifecycle and then guides you, step-by-step, on how you can use Team Foundation Server to your advantage in those areas.

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Table of Contents

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers, and more
Why subscribe?
Free access for Packt account holders
Instant updates on new Packt books
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more…
See also
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Team Project Setup
Introduction
Connecting to TFS using Team Explorer
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Setting up your user profile in TFS
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating a Team Project using the Scrum Template
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Assigning a license, adding users, and auditing user access
Getting ready
How to do it...
Assigning a user license:
Adding users to the project:
Auditing user access
How it works...
Configuring Dashboards in Team Project
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Setting up a welcome page for a Team Project
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Creating and setting up a Team Room
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Renaming a Team Project
Getting ready
How to do it...
Option 1
Option 2
How it works...
Creating a new Team Project through the command line
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Deleting a Team Project
Getting ready
How to do it...
Option1
Option 2
How it works...
2. Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories
Introduction
Setting up the Fabrikam solution in FabrikamTFVC Team Project
Setting up the Fabrikam solution in FabrikamGit Team Project
Creating a Git repository in an existing TFVC Team Project
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Enabling code analysis check-in policy
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Performing a baseless merge between sibling branches in TFVC
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Reparenting a branch in TFVC
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Unlocking files checked out by someone else
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Unshelving a shelveset created in one branch to another branch
Getting ready
How to do it...
Ignoring file types from check-in using .tfignore and .gitignore
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more…
Conducting code reviews in TFS
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There's more...
Setting up policies for branches in Git
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Conducting Pull requests in TFS
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Analyzing code churn with TFS analysis services cube
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
3. Planning and Tracking Work
Introduction
Selecting the backlog levels displayed on the Team Portal
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Mapping, assigning, and tracking Work Items shared by multiple Teams
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Adding additional columns to the Kanban board
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Customizing cards displayed on the boards
Getting ready
How to do it...
Setting up the Team's capacity and activity for a sprint
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
There's more...
Querying Work Items by Tags
Getting ready
How to do it...
There's more...
Creating charts using Work Item Queries
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Using Service Hooks to integrate with Trello boards
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
There is more…
Deleting Work Items in TFS permanently
Getting ready
How to do it…
How it works…
Using Microsoft Feedback Client to provide feedback
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
4. Building Your Application
Introduction
Configuring TFBuild Agent, Pool, and Queues
Getting ready
How to do it
How it works...
Setting up a TFBuild Agent using an unattended installation
Getting ready
How to do it...
How it works...
Creating a continuous integration build definition in TFBuild
Getting ready
...

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