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Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli
Book Image

Azure DevOps Server 2019 Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Tarun Arora, Utkarsh Shigihalli

Overview of this book

Previously known as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Azure DevOps Server is a comprehensive on-premise DevOps toolset with a rich ecosystem of open source plugins. This book will help you learn how to effectively use the different Azure DevOps services. You will start by building high-quality scalable software targeting .NET, .NET Core and Node.js applications. Next, you will learn techniques that will help you to set up end-to-end traceability of your code changes, from design through to release. Whether you are deploying software on-premise or in the cloud in App Service, Functions, or Azure VMs, this book will help you learn release management techniques to reduce failures. As you progress, you will be able to secure application configuration by using Azure Key Vault. You will also understand how to create and release extensions to the Azure DevOps marketplace and reach the million-strong developer ecosystem for feedback. Later, the working extension samples will even allow you to iterate changes in your extensions easily and release updates to the marketplace quickly. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with the skills you need to break down the invisible silos between your software development teams, and transform them into a modern cross-functional software development team.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Title Page
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Distributing multi-configuration tests against agents


Pipelines are a great way of running tests. The pipeline can be used to run unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests. If you have a large number of tests in your application, the verification process can slow down significantly. It can get even slower if you have a large matrix of configurations to run the tests against. For example, if you have a collection of selenium tests that perform UI-level verification, you may need to run these tests against Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox and run the tests on Windows, macOS, and flavors of Linux. 

 

 

In this recipe, we'll learn how easy it is to use a combination of a multi-configuration execution plan along with a pool of test agents to distribute the test execution.

How to do it...

In the Variables section in a build pipeline, define one or more variables that'll be used to describe the test matrix:

  1. In our example, we need to test against multiple browsers on multiple platforms...