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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

Adding a Team field to the Product Backlog Item to an existing Team Project


The original purpose of the Area Path field was to logically group Work Items based on the functional or technical area they belong to before this field got hijacked as the Team Backlog Path. If you intend to use the Area Path for functional or technical grouping of the Work Items, you will need a new field to allocate the Work Items to Teams within a Team Project. In this recipe, you'll learn how to add a Team field to a Team Project by modifying an existing Process Template.

Getting ready

A Process Template can be downloaded using the Process Template manager. To do this, navigate to the Team Explorer's Settings page. Select the Process Template Manager hyperlink from the Team Project Collection view:

The out-of-the-box Process Templates in TFS have been locked for editing. This has been done by adding a known GUID to the Process Template. This ID helps identify the out-of-the-box Process Template from others. If...