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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

Creating charts using Work Item Queries


Work Item Query (WIQ) gives you the means to narrow down the Work Items you need based on your specific requirements. WIQs uses a custom language known as Work Item Query Language (WIQL); the complexity of this language is abstracted away behind the Work Item Query editor. The WIQs return a list of Work Items and, at times, you may feel the need for a visualization tool to analyze the results. Data visualization tools help spot trends that may otherwise go unnoticed. The lightweight charting feature in Team Portal allows you to use WIQs to create charts. In this recipe, you'll learn how to create and share charts using WIQs.

Getting ready

The Stakeholder Access Level does not allow authoring of charts. The Basic or Advanced Access Level is required to author charts.

Scenario: The FabrikamFeature1 Team wants to track the trend of open bugs in the application over the past 12 weeks.

Create a new WIQ using the filter criteria is illustrated in the following...