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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

Chapter 4. Building Your Application

 

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight."

 
 --Bill Gates

TFS has introduced a new build system in TFS 2015 called TFBuild. In this chapter, you'll learn the following:

  • Configuring TFBuild Agent, Pool, and Queues

  • Setting up a TFBuild Agent using an unattended installation

  • Creating a continuous integration build definition in TFBuild

  • Pinning a build badge to the welcome page in Team Portal

  • Managing build resources using role-based access

  • Using the build retention policy to automate build deletion

  • Using user capabilities to identify a build agent in a pool

  • Version DLLs in build output with build number

  • Creating a new build task using the TFBuild Extensibility framework

  • Integrating SonarQube with TFBuild to manage technical debt

  • Building GitHub code repositories with TFBuild