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Mobile DevOps

By : Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi
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Mobile DevOps

By: Rohin Tak, Jhalak Modi

Overview of this book

Today's world is all about perfection, and there are hundreds of applications that are released each day out of which only a few succeed. Making sure that the app looks, performs, and behaves as expected is one of the biggest challenge developers face today. The main goal of this book is to teach developers to implement DevOps to build, test, and deliver. This book will teach you to implement Mobile DevOps at every stage of your application's lifecycle with Visual Studio and Xamarin Mobile Lifecycle solutions. Later, it will also show you how to leverage Mobile Center's continuous integration and automated testing to develop a high-quality applications. Next, you’ll see how to mobilize your on-premises data to the cloud and increase your productivity with code reuse. Finally, you’ll discover how to find and fix bugs beforehand, improving the efficiency of your application while it is being developed. By the end of this book, you will be well-versed with Mobile DevOps techniques, delivering high quality and high performance mobile apps.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Creating an account in Visual Studio

To get started with VSTS, head to your web browser and follow these steps:

  1. Open Microsoft's website at this URL: https://www.visualstudio.com/team-services/.
  1. On the website, you'll see a Get started for free button, as shown in the next screenshot. Click on that button:
  1. Clicking on the button will take you to the signup page, where you can log in using your existing Microsoft account:
  1. If you don't already have a Microsoft account, then you can click on the Create account link on the same page.
  2. Clicking on the Create account link will take you to the next page, where you can choose a username and password for your account and click Next:
  1. It might ask you to verify that you are an actual person creating an account, so after completing that step, your account should be ready to use.
  2. After completing the signup form,...