Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

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. Microsofts 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. Youll explore various source control repositories branching and merging activities along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then youll 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 youll 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.