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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

Introduction


Traditionally, businesses looked at technology as a cost of doing business; businesses now look at technology as an opportunity to do more business. The use of sophisticated software systems for critical decision making is increasing more than ever before. Pioneering companies have already realized the benefits of tapping into a digital ecosystem and are leveraging technology as a differentiator. To keep pace with the changes in the marketplace, software systems need to change too.

Requirements that are implemented but never used, or those that are used just long enough to identify, do not satisfy the needs of the users and cause waste, rework, and dissatisfaction. Whether you are following Scrum, Waterfall, or any other delivery approach, good requirement management is the cornerstone to the success of a software project.

In TFS, Work Items are the means to record and track work. Process (formally known as the Process Template) is used to orchestrate the delivery framework terminology...