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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
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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

Conducting Pull requests in TFS


Earlier in the chapter, you learned how to restrict unreviewed code from making its way into the master branch. Pull requests are the means to promote code from topic branches (also referred to as feature branch) into the master branch. Pull requests enable developers working in topic branches to get feedback on their changes from other developers prior to submitting the code into the master branch. In this recipe, you'll learn how to conduct a Pull request to accept changes from a topic branch into the master branch.

Getting ready

The scenario we'll be working through in this recipe – Brian is a developer on the FabrikamGit Team. He is working on feature to add a dropdown called problem type on the service Dashboard. Brian has created an enum with the list of problem types and he wants to get feedback on this list and merge his changes to the master branch.

  1. Open Visual Studio and connect it to the FabrikamGit Team Project. From Team Explorer hub, click on Branches...