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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora, Arora
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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

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By: Tarun Arora, Arora
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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 (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Sections
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Team Project Setup
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1. Team Project Setup
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Introduction
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Connecting to TFS using Team Explorer
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Setting up your user profile in TFS
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Creating a Team Project using the Scrum Template
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Assigning a license, adding users, and auditing user access
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Configuring Dashboards in Team Project
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Setting up a welcome page for a Team Project
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Creating and setting up a Team Room
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Renaming a Team Project
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Creating a new Team Project through the command line
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Deleting a Team Project
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2. Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories
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2. Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories
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Introduction
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Creating a Git repository in an existing TFVC Team Project
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Enabling code analysis check-in policy
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Performing a baseless merge between sibling branches in TFVC
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Reparenting a branch in TFVC
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Unlocking files checked out by someone else
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Unshelving a shelveset created in one branch to another branch
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Ignoring file types from check-in using .tfignore and .gitignore
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Conducting code reviews in TFS
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Setting up policies for branches in Git
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Conducting Pull requests in TFS
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Analyzing code churn with TFS analysis services cube
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3. Planning and Tracking Work
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3. Planning and Tracking Work
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Introduction
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Selecting the backlog levels displayed on the Team Portal
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Mapping, assigning, and tracking Work Items shared by multiple Teams
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Adding additional columns to the Kanban board
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Customizing cards displayed on the boards
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Setting up the Team's capacity and activity for a sprint
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Querying Work Items by Tags
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Creating charts using Work Item Queries
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Using Service Hooks to integrate with Trello boards
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Deleting Work Items in TFS permanently
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Using Microsoft Feedback Client to provide feedback
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4. Building Your Application
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4. Building Your Application
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Introduction
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Configuring TFBuild Agent, Pool, and Queues
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Setting up a TFBuild Agent using an unattended installation
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Creating a continuous integration build definition in TFBuild
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Pinning a build badge to the welcome page in Team Portal
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Managing build resources using role-based access
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Using the build retention policy to automate build deletion
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Using user capabilities to identify a build agent in a pool
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Version DLLs in build output with build number
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Creating a new build task using the TFBuild Extensibility framework
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Integrating SonarQube with TFBuild to manage technical debt
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Building GitHub code repositories with TFBuild
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5. Testing Your Application
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5. Testing Your Application
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Introduction
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Running NUnit tests in the CI Pipeline using TFBuild
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Creating and setting up a Machine Group
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Deploying a test agent through the TFBuild task
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Distributing test execution on a Lab Machine Group
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Triggering Selenium Web Tests on a Selenium Test Grid using TFBuild
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Integrating the Cloud Load Testing Service in TFBuild
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Analyzing test execution results from the Runs view
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Exporting and importing test cases in Excel from TFS
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Copying and cloning test suites and test cases
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Exporting test artifacts and test results from the test hub
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Charting testing status on Dashboards in Team Portal
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6. Releasing Your Application
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6. Releasing Your Application
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Introduction
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Creating a release definition in Team Web Portal
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Mapping artifacts to a release definition
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Configuring a release definition for a continuous deployment
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Adding and configuring environments in a release definition
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Configuring security for release definitions
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Configuring global and local variables for a release
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Deploying an Azure website using release management
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Deploying the IIS Web Application using release management
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Tracking a release in release management
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7. Managing Team Foundation Server
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7. Managing Team Foundation Server
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Introduction
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Diagnosing builds in TFS
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Analyzing the TFS database and configuring test retention policies
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Using Activity and Job Monitoring logs to diagnose TFS issues
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Changing update frequency and forcing a rebuild of TFS Warehouse
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Configuring TFS Cache settings
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Managing CodeLens in TFS
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Continuous synchronization with the TFS Proxy server
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Creating a TFS database back up schedule
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Cleaning up unused workspaces and shelvesets in TFS – in progress
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8. Extending and Customizing Team Foundation Server
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8. Extending and Customizing Team Foundation Server
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Introduction
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Acquiring TFS object model from the NuGet Gallery
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Using Team Project Picker to connect to TFS programmatically
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Determining the version of TFS using the TFS object model
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Retrieving TFS permissions programmatically using the TFS object model
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Getting the Process Template name for a Team Project programmatically
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Getting build details programmatically using the REST API
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Getting a list of Git repositories programmatically using the REST API
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Getting a Work Item by ID programmatically using the REST API
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Adding a Team field to the Product Backlog Item to an existing Team Project
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Adding multi-item select control in the Work Item form
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Creating a Team Project using the Scrum Template

In TFS, a Team Project is a logical container that stores artifacts such as Work Items, code, builds, and releases. Different Teams follow different processes to organize, manage, and track work. TFS allows process specification via Process Templates. The Scrum, Agile, and CMMI template are offered out of the box. The Process Template defines the set of Work Item types, queries, and reports that can be used to plan and track the project. In this recipe, you'll learn how to create a new Team Project using the Scrum Template.

Getting ready

Team Projects cannot be created from the Team Portal; in this recipe, we'll be using Team Explorer to create a new Team Project. If you haven't already, connect Team Explorer to TFS. Refer to the Connecting to TFS using Team Explorer recipe for more information on how this can be done.

In order to create a new Team Project, you will need the following permissions:

  • Create new projects permission: You inherit this permission by being a member of the Project Collection Administrators group. The Team Foundation Administrators global group also includes this permission.
  • Create new Team sites permission: This permission is granted by adding the user to a SharePoint group with full control rights on the SharePoint site collection. You don't need this permission if you decide not to create a SharePoint site as part of the Team Project creation.

    In order to use the SQL Server Reporting Services, you must be a member of the Team Foundation Content Manager role in Reporting Services.

    Note

    To verify whether you have the correct permissions, you can download the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool from CodePlex available at https://tfsadmin.codeplex.com/. TFS Admin is an open source tool available under the Microsoft Public license (Ms-PL).

How to do it...

  1. Open Visual Studio 2015 and connect Team Explorer to TFS:
    How to do it...
  2. From the Projects and My Teams submenu, click on New Team Project.... This will bring up the new Team Project creation wizard:
    How to do it...
  3. Enter the Team Project name and description, and click on the Next button:
    How to do it...
  4. Select the Scrum Process Template and click on Next. This is possibly the single most important decision you make as part of the Team Project creation process. Learn more about the differences between Process Templates at https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/vs/alm/work/guidance/choose-process.
    How to do it...
  5. Choose the Create a new SharePoint site option. Click on Configure... to specify the location for the new site. If you do not have SharePoint integration, chose the option to not configure a SharePoint site.
    How to do it...
  6. This source control selection screen presents the second most important decision that you'll be asked to make as a part of the Team Project creation process. TFS supports both centralized (TFVC) and distributed (Git) source control systems. In Chapter 2, Setting Up and Managing Code Repositories, we'll go deeper into both source control types. Choose Team Foundation Version Control and click on Next:
    How to do it...
  7. Once you have reviewed the settings, click on Finish to start the Team Project creation process:
    How to do it...
  8. Once the Team Project creation completes, you'll see a completion status on the form. Click on the View the team project creation log hyperlink (we'll discuss the contents of logs in the How it works… section).
    How to do it...
  9. Team Explorer is now updated with the details of the newly created Team Project:
    How to do it...

How it works...

The Process Template defines the set of Work Item types and reports that will be used to plan and track the project. The Process Template also applies the Work Item workflows and state transitions. Let's look at how the out-of-the-box templates differ broadly from one another:

  • The Scrum Template is designed to support the Scrum framework as defined by the Scrum organization. This Process Template tracks bugs at the same level as Product Backlog items and tracks estimates using an Effort field.
  • The Agile Template is designed to support Agile development for Teams that don't want to be restricted by Scrum. It supports estimating User Stories by using Story Points. Tasks contain fields to track the Original Estimate, Remaining, and Completed work fields. While originally the Agile Template didn't allow bug tracking on any backlog page, this can optionally be configured through Team settings in Team Portal.
  • The CMMI Template is designed to support formal change management processes. This template supports the estimated requirements using a Size field. Tasks contain fields to track original estimate, remaining, and completed work fields.

The out-of-the-box templates are designed to meet the needs of most Teams. All of them support using the Agile planning tools to create the Product Backlog and work in sprints with the task board. If your Team has different needs, you can customize a template and then create the Team Project, or you can create a Team Project from a template and then customize the project.

You can download the Process Template by going into the Process Template Manager from the Settings view in Team Explorer. Refer to https://msdn.microsoft.com/Library/vs/alm/Work/guidance/manage-process-templates for further instructions on how to download the Process Template.

How it works...

Open ProcessTemplate.xml from the earlier download location; you'll note that it follows an XML structure that constructs a sequence of plugins and instructions for setting up the plugins. The Main Template is linked to sub modules that are defined by other XML structures. In the following representation, you'll see the correlation between these XML Templates and the instrumentation generated from the project creation workflow. Process Template customization is discussed in detail in Chapter 8, Extending and Customizing Team Foundation Server.

How it works...

The following items are created for you as part of the Team Project creation process:

  • Code Repository: A code repository based on your selection is provisioned.
  • Team: A default Team with the same name as the Team Project is provisioned.
  • Area Path: A default Area Path with the same name as the name of the Team is provisioned. The Teams backlog is configured to show Work Items assigned to this Area Path.
  • Iteration Path: The set of iterations is precreated for the Team.
  • Team Portal: The Team Portal allows the Team members to connect to TFS to manage source code, Work Items, build, and test efforts.
  • Team Room: A room with the same name as the Team is provisioned. Team room is meant to be used for collaboration.

If your Team Foundation Server is configured to support SharePoint project portal and reporting, you'll see the Documents and Reports hub in Team Explorer. The Documents view offers deep integration with the SharePoint project portal. This allows you to create document libraries and organize and share documents with your Team members. The Reports view gives you a collection of precreated SSRS reports that you can use to track and manage the progress of work in your Teams:

How it works...
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