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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

Configuring a release definition for a continuous deployment


A continuous deployment is a software engineering approach in which Teams deploy incremental changes to software as they are committed to a repository. It aims at building, testing, and releasing software faster and more frequently. A release definition already stores details of systems generating the artifacts that need to be deployed. A release definition can be configured to trigger a release when a new version of the artifact is available. In this recipe, you'll learn how to configure the release definition to trigger a new release when a new artifact version is available.

Getting ready

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

Scenario: The FabrikamTFVC Team has mapped FabrikamTFVC.Website and FabrikamTFVC.Services to the release definition of FabrikamTFVC Web. The Team now wants the FabrikamTFVC release...