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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Conducting code reviews in TFS


In the introduction to this chapter, we briefly talked about technical debt and how it can impact the productivity of a Team. The use of good engineering practices helps tackle issues that are potential contributors to technical debt. There is a consensus across the industry that code review is an effective and practical way to collar code inconsistency and possible defects early in the software development life cycle.

A study on the value and importance of code reviews conducted by Forrester Consulting highlighted the following as perceived benefits of code review:

TFS offers two code review solutions, one through Team Explorer and the other through Team Web Access. The code review solution in Team Explorer, first introduced in TFS 2012, receives criticism for not supporting iterative reviews. On the other hand...