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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

Introduction


TFS provides integrated tooling for software application delivery and life cycle management. It is not uncommon for organizations to have different tools for managing different parts of the life cycle, for example, Jira for Agile Project Management, TeamCity for builds, Jenkins for release management, and ServiceNow for service management. Customers expect to be able to integrate and share information between different systems. Team Foundation Server has a fairly large ecosystem of tools and services it integrates with. The following screenshot shows some of the partners from the TFS ecosystem, you can find the complete list at https://vsipprogram.com/Directory:

It is virtually impossible to provide out-of-the-box integration with every other system; to bridge the gap, TFS provides a very rich library that allows you to retrieve, edit, update, insert, and delete data in TFS. The API makes these operations secure and auditable. Today, TFS has two extensibility technologies, as...