One of the advantages of Azure DevOps over some of the other tools covered in this book is that it is a fully integrated suite of tools, each supporting specific DevOps processes. This end-to-end integration allows for detailed and lengthy traceability, from work described on the board to the related binaries being deployed to an environment.
When working with a set of other tools that support only a part of the DevOps process, integrating them is often possible and, of course, this will result in some traceability. For example, when working with Jira and GitHub, it is possible to relate commits, pull requests, and other changes in GitHub back to work described in Jira. When picking merged changes up in Jenkins to build and deploy the product, there will also be traceability from Jenkins back to GitHub. However, there will be no direct visibility on which...