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Azure DevOps Explained

By : Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik
Book Image

Azure DevOps Explained

By: Sjoukje Zaal, Stefano Demiliani, Amit Malik

Overview of this book

Developing applications for the cloud involves changing development methodologies and procedures. Continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) processes are a must today, but are often difficult to implement and adopt. Azure DevOps is a Microsoft Azure cloud service that enhances your application development life cycle and enables DevOps capabilities. Starting with a comprehensive product overview, this book helps you to understand Azure DevOps and apply DevOps techniques to your development projects. You'll find out how to adopt DevOps techniques for your development processes by using built-in Azure DevOps tools. Throughout the course of this book, you'll also discover how to manage a project with the help of project management techniques such as Agile and Scrum, and then progress toward development aspects such as source code management, build pipelines, code testing and artifacts, release pipelines, and GitHub integration. As you learn how to implement DevOps practices, this book will also provide you with real-world examples and scenarios of DevOps adoption. By the end of this DevOps book, you will have learned how to adopt and implement Azure DevOps features in your real-world development processes.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
1
Section 1: DevOps Principles and Azure DevOps Project Management
4
Section 2: Source Code and Builds
9
Section 3: Artifacts and Deployments
12
Section 4: Advanced Features of Azure DevOps

Benefits of automatic testing

After adding a new feature to your application, you want to know if it will work correctly, given all the possible interactions. You also don't want to break any other features with this new functionality and want to know if the code is easily understood by others, as well as being maintainable.

All of this can be tested manually. But as the project and code base grows over time, testing all these features manually can become repetitive and error-prone. This is where automatic testing comes in.

There has always been a great deal of controversy around automatic testing. Many people believe that testing is too expensive to create and maintain. This is indeed true when tests are created badly. But when automatic tests are created properly, it will absolutely lower the amount of time and costs compared to frequent manual testing or releasing poor-quality software. Using automatic testing, your project will benefit from the ability to release software...