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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

Using user capabilities to identify a build agent in a pool


It is not uncommon to have specialized build agents for specific builds. For example, an application may have dependency on SharePoint SDK. A build agent can be stood up to cater for builds that have such dependencies. The new build system introduces the concept of capabilities. Capabilities, in their most basic form, are a collection of key value pairs used to recognize the abilities of a build server. A build that requires a specific ability for its execution can be routed to a relevant build agent by referring to these key/value pairs. A build agent supports both system and user capabilities. System capabilities are a list of software frameworks already available on the build agent. They are generated by the build agent. User capabilities can be manually added to a build agent; this is a useful way to tag on a key value pair to recognize a build agent. In this recipe, you'll learn how to add a user capability to a build agent...