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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

Creating a release definition in Team Web Portal


In this recipe, you'll learn how to create a new release definition using an empty Deployment Template. You'll also learn about the different functions available in a release definition.

Getting ready

To create a new release definition, you need to be a member of the Release Administrators Group. These permissions are also available to the Project Administrators Group.

How to do it...

  1. Navigate to the Release hub in FabrikamTFVC Team Project:

  2. Click on the + icon to create a new release definition. There are preconfigured Deployment Templates to choose from. In this recipe, we'll start with the Empty template. Unlike the other templates, the Empty template creates a blank release definition without any pre-added tasks:

  3. Name the release definition FabrikamTFVC Web Release:

  4. Navigate to the General tab and change the release number format from Release-$(rev:r) to Rel-$(System.TeamProject)-$(rev:r). The releases generated from this definition will have...