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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
Book Image

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

Pinning a build badge to the welcome page in Team Portal


Build badge is a dynamically generated image showing the status of the last build for a build definition. In this recipe, you'll learn how to pin a build badge to a Dashboard in Team Portal.

Getting ready

To modify a build definition, you need to have the build definition author or builder's permissions. This permission can be granted by adding yourself to the Build Administrators Security Group.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to the Build hub for FabrikamTFVC Team Project; browse to http://tfs2015:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/FabrikamTFVC/_build.

  2. Locate the build definition FabrikamTFVC CI from under the build definitions menu in the left panel and choose to edit the build definition.

  3. Navigate to the General tab of the build definition and check the option Badge enabled:

  4. Click on Save to update the changes in order to enable the badge build definition. Upon saving the changes, a new hyperlink Show url… appears next to the Badge enabled field. Click...