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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

Querying Work Items by Tags


Work Item Tags are a great way to associate keywords to Work Items. These keywords act as metadata helping you group, search, and filter Work Items. In this recipe, you'll learn how to query Work Items by Tags.

Getting ready

All project valid user group members have permissions to create Tags. The stakeholder Access Level does not allow creation of Tags. Stakeholders can tag Work Items using pre-existing Tags only.

Scenario: The FabrikamTFVC Team has a backlog of Features that they want to tag by releasing a Feature that is forecasted to ship in. Features that are yet to be reviewed need to be tagged as Pending Review. The product owner wants to create a Work Item query for Work Items tagged for release 1 (exclude any Work Items that are marked as blocked) and share the query with the stakeholders.

A Work Item can be tagged by opening up the Work Item form and clicking on the Add icon. Select an existing Tag from the list or add a new Tag:

In the FabrikamTFVC Feature...