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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

Integrating SonarQube with TFBuild to manage technical debt


Technical debt can be classified as the measure between the current state and an optimal state of codebases. Technical debt saps productivity by making code hard to understand, easy to break, difficult to validate, and in turn, creating unplanned work ultimately blocking the progress. Technical debt is inevitable! It starts small and grows overtime through rushed changes and lack of context and discipline. Organizations often find that more than 50% of their capacity is sapped by technical debt. As discussed in Chapter 2, Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories, the biggest challenge is in identifying and managing Technical Debt. SonarQube is an open source platform that is the de facto solution for understanding and managing technical debt. In this recipe, you'll learn how to integrate with SonarQube using TFBuild to analyze .NET-based applications.

Getting ready

SonarQube is an open platform for managing code quality. As such...