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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

Running SpecFlow tests using Azure Pipelines


SpecFlow is a testing framework that lets you define application behavior in plain, meaningful English text using a simple grammar defined by a language called Gherkin. SpecFlow is a very popular open source framework for Behavior-Driven Development (BDD). SpecFlow democratizes testing to non-technical users by giving them a way of defining tests using the business domain and functional language, which can then be fleshed out as a functional test. In this recipe, we'll learn how SpecFlow tests can be integrated to run in Azure Pipelines.

Getting ready

Create a new pipeline using the ASP.NET Core template. In this recipe, we'll be mostly focusing on the Test task in this pipeline.

How to do it...

SpecFlow tests don't necessarily need the SpecRunner for execution: they can be run using MSTestv2 or any other compatible framework. However, using SpecRunner provides great benefits: for example, you can get some very useful analysis out of the tests that...